In the end, the Great White Steamer was a great white elephant. The island town of Avalon didn’t want the SS Catalina, which for 50 glorious years ferried about 25 million people to its shores.

The SS Catalina was one popular ship in its heyday. During its more than 50 years of operation, beginning in 1924, it carried an estimated 25 million passengers from the Port of Los Angeles to Santa ...

It was a cool, sunny morning nearly 40 years ago as hundreds of onlookers lined the entrance to Newport Harbor to witness the heralded arrival of the world famous “Great White Steamer.” The 302-foot ...

The documentary on the SS Catalina can be viewed online at coosmediacenter.pegcentral.com (click through the pages to find the specific item). It runs an hour and 41 minutes and covers the ship’s ...

Many said it was an impossible dream. And in the end, they were right. Preservationists who launched an all-out effort in the late 1990s to save the SS Catalina have officially given up the battle, ...