A pictorial History of the U.S.S.BONHOMME and U.S.S. CARTERHALL Cruise books . . As mentioned in Wikipedia, I have an intensely avid interest in ship cruise books.  For the last eight years I have been attempting to document every USN/USCG ship cruise book ever published.  So far, I've determined there have been at least 7,844 ship cruise books published.  I have documented 3,965 of them and collected scans of the front covers of 5,797 of these cruise books.  In addition to having 1,970 ship cruise books in my personal collection I also have over 4,000 individual ship files - roughly seven file cabinets - containing photos and historical data.