Among the passengers was the Rev. George Grimston Cookman, who had served as Chaplain of the Senate, and the popular Irish comic actor Tyrone Power (1795–1841), who was the ancestor of the film star of the same name.
President | President of the United States | Vice President of the United States | president | Vice President | President of the Philippines | President of France | President of India | Lord President of the Council | President of Germany | President of Pakistan | President of the European Parliament | President of Mexico | President of Ireland | President of Argentina | President of Poland | President of Chile | Lord President of the Court of Session | President of Georgia | President of Brazil | President of the Senate | President of South Africa | President of Iran | President of Afghanistan | President Lincoln | vice president | President pro tempore of the United States Senate | President of Uruguay | President of Ukraine | President of the Republic of China |
SS President Grant originally the 1903 Servian, purchased by Hamburg Amerikanische Paketfahrt Actien-Gesellschaft renamed the SS President Grant in 1907, interned and seized on U.S. entry into WW I, served as USS President Grant(SP-3014), transferred to U.S. Army and renamed USAT Republic alternately served Army and Navy as USS Republic (AP-33) and again as USAT Republic until sold for scrap 1952.
In the beginning of the film, Robert Lomax (played by William Holden) disembarks from the SS President Wilson (an old American President Lines transpacific passenger vessel) and takes the Star Ferry to Hong Kong Island, and on the ferry meets Suzie Wong (played by Nancy Kwan), who scorns his attentions.