Small antique 4-panel 2-sided brochure for the Summer of 1933 cruises from New York and New Orleans to the Caribbean and West Indies aboard the United Fruit Company Steamship Service "Great White Fleet" cargoliners.

The brochure measures 6.25" x 3.5" and folds out to a size of 12.5" x 7".

The brochure has a short description of the cruise experience aboard the ships, and it has descriptions and room rates for the various cruises which ranged from 8 to 20 days.  There is a photo of one of the line's ships on the back.

Ports of call included Havana, Jamaica, Panama and Panama Canal Zone, Cristobal, Honduras, Guatemala, and Columbia.  The line also offered intercoastal services with stops at New York, New Orleans, Los Angeles, and San Francisco.

The brochure is in excellent condition (see photos).

The main passenger cargo ships used by the 'Great White Fleet' in 1933 were 6 sister ships which were built from 1931-1933: ss Antigua, ss Talamanca, ss Jamaica, ss Chiriqui, ss Quirigua, and ss Veraqua.  The 447 ft long, 6,982 ton ships, carried 113 passengers and had a refrigerated cargo capacity of 240,070 tons (mainly bananas).  The ships operated with United Fruit until the late 1950's when the ships were sold to various owners.  The ships were scrapped during the period 1964 to 1971.

The term "banana republic" was coined to describe United Fruit's questionable method of operating in Latin America.  The company changed its name to United Brands in 1970 after merging with AMK, and it changed its name to Chiquita in 1984.