The history of the Shipping Companies founded by Alexandre and Boris Vlasov and of their Vessels. .Well illustrated including colour, also deck plans and side elevations of a few of the ships. "In 1928 Alexandre Vlasov chartered his first vessel, named after his son Boris, thus starting the shipping activities of the Vlasov Group, nowdays one of the biggest shipping concerns in the World which owns 25 ships and manages another 400. This book examines in individual chapters the story of each of the passenger vessels owned by the Sitmar Line (the most famous of Vlasov's companies) as well as the most recent cruise ships Minerva and Seven Seas Navigator. Also to each of the pioneer freighters owned by Sitmar (Castelverde, Castelbianco, Castelbruno and Castelmarino) is given a full chapter containing her detailed history, accompanied by rare photographs of those long-forgotten coal tramps which actually constitute the earliest, interesting years of the Vlasov Group..."