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Great Passenger Ships 1910-1920 (Paperback, New)
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Great Passenger Ships 1910-1920 (Paperback, New)
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It was an age of evolution, when size and speed were almost the
ultimate considerations. Bigger was said to be better, and ship
owners were not exempted from the prevailing mood, while the German
four-stackers of 1897-06 and then Cunard's brilliant "Mauretania"
& "Lusitania" of 1907 led the way to larger and grander liners.
White Star Line countered by 1911 with the "Olympic," her sister
"Titanic," and a near-sister, the "Britannic." The French added the
"France" while Cunard took delivery of the beloved" Aquitania." But
the Germans won out--they produced the 52,000-ton "Imperator" and a
near-sister, the "Vaterland," the last word in shipbuilding and
engineering prior to World War I. They and their sister, the
"Bismarck," remained the biggest ships in the world until 1935. But
other passenger ships appear in this decade--other Atlantic liners,
but also ships serving on more diverse routes: Union Castle to
Africa, P&O to India and beyond, the Empress liners on the
trans-Pacific run. We look at a grand age of maritime creation,
ocean-going superlative, but also sad destruction in the dark days
of the First War. It was, in all ways, a fascinating period.
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