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At a time when everything is constantly changing, it is timely to
look back to the comfort of a familiar and golden era aboard
British passenger liners, when the British-flag passenger fleet
spanned the world - from Southampton, London & Liverpool to
South America, Africa, India, the Far East, Australia &,
beyond. In this latest full-colour collection of imagery, much of
it unseen, William H. Miller looks back at the post-war period
through the 1950s and 60s, when the world was entering another
period of great change, and revels in the beloved stars of the
ocean, including such ships as Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth,
Mauretania and Caronia, QE2, Canberra, Oriana, Windsor Castle,
Queen Victoria, QE (current) and QM2. This beautiful book is
structured by company, from the Anchor Line to the Union-Castle
Line - and featuring many others besides, such as Blue Star Line,
British India, Cunard, Ellerman, New Zealand Shipping Co, Orient
Line, P&O and Shaw Savill Line.
The story of the Great Liners begins on the Atlantic route between
the Old World and the New, between Europe and the United States. It
was the most prestigious, most progressive and certainly most
competitive ocean liner run of all time. It was on the North
Atlantic that the largest, fastest and indeed grandest passenger
ships were created. In this book, William Miller concentrates for
the most part on these Atlantic superliners. It has been a race,
sometimes fierce, that has continued for well over a century.
Smaller passenger ships, even ones of 30,000 and 40,000 tons, are
for the most part left to other books. The story begins even
earlier, in 1889, when Germany's Kaiser Wilhelm II visited his
grandmother, Queen Victoria, and attended the British Naval Review
at Spithead. The British were more than pleased to show off not
only the mightiest naval vessels afloat, but the biggest passenger
ships then afloat, namely the 10,000-ton 'Teutonic' of the White
Star Line. These ships caught the Kaiser's royal eye. His
enthusiasm, his determination and, assuredly, his jealousies were
aroused. Her returned to his homeland determined that Germany
should have bigger and better ships.The world must know, he
theorized, that Imperial Germany had reached new and higher
technological heights. To the Kaiser and other envious Germans, the
British had, quite simply, had a monopoly on the biggest ships long
enough. British engineers and even shipyard crews were recruited,
teaching German shipbuilders the key components of a new generation
of larger ships. Shipyards at Bremen, Hamburg and Stettin were soon
ready. It would all take eight years, however, before the first big
German liner would be completed. She would be large enough and fast
enough to be dubbed the world's first "super liner". She would only
be the biggest vessel built in Germany, but the biggest afloat. The
nation's most prominent shipowners, the Hamburg America Line and
the North German Lloyd, were both deeply interested. It was the
Lloyd, however, which rose first to the occasion. Enthusiastically
and optimistically, the first ship was the first of a successive
quartet. The illustrious Vulkan Shipyard at Stettin was given the
prized contract. Triumph seemed to be in the air! The Kaiser
himself went to the launching, on 3 May 1897, of this new Imperial
flagship.Designed with four funnels but grouped in pairs, the
655-ft long ship was named 'Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse', honoring
the Emperor's grandfather. With the rattle of chains, the release
of the building blocks and then the tumultuous roar as the
unfinished hull hit the water, this launching was the beginning of
the Atlantic race for supremacy, which would last for some 70
years. Only after the first arrival of the trans-Atlantic jet in
October 1958 would the race quiet down. The 'Kaiser Wilhelm der
Grosse' was the great beginning, the start of a superb fleet of
what has been dubbed "ocean greyhounds" and later aptly called the
"floating palaces". Worried and cautious, the normally contented
British referred to the brand new Kaiser as a "German monster".
"Serving on the Big Ships: Life on the Liners" looks at passenger
ship history from the perspective of recollections, impressions,
and anecdotes of those who sailed these fine, but largely bygone
vessels. It covers the last golden age of ocean liner travel,
beginning in the 1950s and continuing into the 1970s and '80s. It
reflects a pre-airline age-when passengers sailed from A to B, from
port to port. It was before liners turned to cruising and where
ports were more entertainment than destination. Staff members -
from captains to stewards-recall the likes of Cunard &
Holland-America on the North Atlantic, the Italian Line to the
Mediterranean, Royal Mail Lines to South America, Union-Castle to
Africa and P&O-Orient to Australia & the Far East.
The world of ocean liners, those built for French lines were the
epitome of style and panache, and SS Normandie perhaps the pinnacle
of this. When she entered service in 1935, she was the largest,
longest, fastest and certainly the best fed ship of her time,
serving the finest food imaginable in a dining room longer than the
Hall of Mirrors at Versailles. Normandie embodied high glamour and
was a firm favourite of many, albeit for a short time. Times were
changing and even the French government's massive subsidies to the
builders, an attempt to make Normandie a flagship for the drive out
of the Depression. could only work for so long, as the Second World
War drew nearer. She might have been a valuable troopship, and
served a the USS Lafayette for a time, but caught fire at her New
York pier in 1942. The great ship was salvaged, but with an
expensive restoration in prospect she could not escape being
scrapped in 1946-47. Through beautiful illustrations and evocative
writing, William H.Miller presents the story of one of the most
lavish liners ever to cross the seas.
This latest book from William H. Miller presents 150 photographs,
all in rich colour, across a span of almost 100 years: from the
1920s to the start of the current cruising boom. It includes many
early, often seasonal, liners; then the more purposeful generation
of 'floating hotels' that began in the 1960s. There are favourites,
such as the pre-Second World War Franconia, Reliance, Nieuw
Amsterdam and Normandie; then, in greater numbers, a 'fleet'
starting from the 1950s and '60s - ships such as the Caronia,
Andes, Queen of Bermuda, Nassau, Italia, Bahama Star, Reina Del
Mar, Oceanic, Skyward, Song of Norway, Hamburg, Royal Viking Star
and Queen Elizabeth 2. Finally, steaming into the twenty-first
century, we see the likes of the Royal Princess, Statendam, Crystal
Symphony, Oriana, Queen Mary 2, Allure of the Seas and Viking Star.
The period from the end of the Second World War to the late 1960s
marked a golden era for the traditional port-to-port class-divided
passenger ship business. It was an age of re-awakening, with the
wealthy and adventurous seeking new experiences abroad and
countless migrants wanting to leave war-shattered Europe for new
lives and opportunities overseas. On the liners, everyone was
catered for: from passengers such as the Duke and Duchess of
Windsor, who required suites of luxurious rooms with space to
unpack over a hundred pieces of luggage, to penniless migrants
carrying nothing more than an overnight bag, for whom a berth in a
fifty-bed dormitory was all that was needed. Atlantic crossings
were popular throughout the period, but there were also three- and
four-class ships to South America, combination passenger-cargo
services carrying only 100 or so travelers, fast mail ships to
South Africa, colonial passenger vessels to East Africa, crowded
migrant sailings to Sydney and Auckland, and trans-Suez and
trans-Pacific passages. This was an era when long-distance travel
was entirely dependent on the ocean liners. Post-War on the Liners
examines, through fascinating anecdotes and detailed research, the
many passenger ship services of this bygone era, recapturing the
charm, practicality, and importance of post-war sea travel. From
the magnificent-Cunarders Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth, Italian
Line's Augustus, Union-Castle's Bloemfontein Castle, P&O's
Oronsay, and Shaw Savill's Southern Cross-to the lesser
known-Fyffes Line's Golfito, Royal Mail's Amazon, Sitmar Line's
Fairsea, and NYK Line's Hikawa Maru-this book reveals the unique
qualities of individual ships and why they were so often regarded
with affection by the men and women who travelled and served on
them.
Covering the diagnosis and treatment of hundreds of dermatologic
conditions, Muller and Kirk's Small Animal Dermatology, 7th Edition
is today's leading reference on dermatology for dogs, cats, and
pocket pets. Topics include clinical signs, etiology, and
pathogenesis of dermatologic conditions including fungal,
parasitic, metabolic, nutritional, environmental, and psychogenic.
This edition includes full updates of all 21 chapters, and more
than 1,300 full-color clinical, microscopic, and histopathologic
images. Written by veterinary experts William Miller, Craig
Griffin, and Karen Campbell, this resource helps students and
clinicians distinguish clinical characteristics and variations of
normal and abnormal facilitating accurate diagnosis and effective
therapy. Over 1,300 high-quality color images clearly depict the
clinical features of hundreds of dermatologic disorders, helping to
ensure accurate diagnoses and facilitating effective treatment.
Comprehensive coverage includes environmental, nutritional,
behavioral, hereditary, and immune-mediated diseases and disorders.
Well-organized, thoroughly referenced format makes it easy to
access information on skin diseases in dogs, cats, and exotic pets.
UPDATES of all 21 chapters include the most current dermatologic
information. NEW editors and contributors add new insight and a
fresh perspective to this edition.
America produced some of the world's finest, most interesting,
advanced and innovative passenger ships, such as the brilliant SS
United States, the fastest ocean liner ever to sail the seas,
ingloriously left lying in limbo for 42 years. This book also
documents passenger ships seized in wartime, notably the giant
German Vaterland, which became the Leviathan of the United States
Lines, as well as many newly built passenger ships, such as Santa
Rosa, Lurline, President Cleveland, Independence and Brasil. Also
included are peacetime troopships as well as 'combo ships', the
once very popular passenger-cargo ships. The great saga of American
liners continues to this day with modern cruise ships in Hawaiian
service. The cast of ships is both vast and varied, but endlessly
fascinating. Presenting many unpublished images alongside historic,
insightful text including personal anecdotes of the ships and
voyages from passengers and crew alike, Bill Miller takes the
reader on a nostalgic voyage and the great American passenger fleet
sails once again!
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.
Freighters of the 1950s and '60s - with masts, booms and hatches -
were the last of their generation. It was the end of an era, just
before the massive transition to faster, more efficient
containerised shipping on larger and larger vessels. These were
'working ships', but many would be retired prematurely and finish
up under flags of convenience, for virtually unknown owners, before
going off to the scrappers in the 1970s and '80s. For some ships,
their life's work was cut short and their decommissioning was
quick. In Handling Cargo, William H. Miller remembers the likes of
Cunard, Holland America and United States Lines on the North
Atlantic, Moore McCormack Lines to South America, Farrell Lines to
Africa and P&O out East.
The worldwide cruise industry is booming-alone, there are some 56
new cruise ships being built or planned (2018). Cruise ships visit
ports around the world. And the ships themselves are
amenity-filled, moving resorts. But when did it all begin? This
book looks at the evolution of cruising, from the mid-nineteenth
century. It chronicles the growth of long, luxury cruising in the
Twenties and then, in the Depression-era Thirties, cruising reaches
the general public as a form of escape. By the late Sixties,
purposeful cruise ships were being built and these spawned today's
fleet, including the largest passenger ships ever built.
The spectacular French flagship France, the longest liner ever
built, was the latest transatlantic supership when completed in the
1960s, and - according to most early reports - the most luxurious
liner then afloat. The last of the great French Line passenger
ships, on the celebrated run to and from New York she was not only
the national flagship, but went on to have a most fortunate life
with two noted careers and two highly recognisable names. She was
one of the greatest of all twentieth-century liners. Maiden voyage
passengers goggled at the luxuries aboard the $80 million floating
masterpiece with her fantastic interiors, superb service and most
exquisite food, yet despite her success she eventually lost out to
the unsurpassable speed of jet aircraft. Laid-up, she lingered for
five years before being bought by the Norwegians in 1979 and was
dramatically transformed from the indoor, transatlantic France into
the outdoor, tropical Norway. By May 1980, she began sailing in
Caribbean waters and, for years afterward, ranked as the largest
cruise ship in the world: an innovator and a great prelude to
today's mega-liners. A tribute to one of the grandest and most
beloved of all twentieth-century ocean liners, in this richly
illustrated book by acknowledged liner expert William Miller we
salute the France/Norway!
Founded in 1873, the Holland America Line provided services
carrying passengers and freight between the Netherlands and North
America. When the Second World War ended, only nine of Holland
America Line's twenty-five ships had survived and the company set
about rebuilding. The pride of HAL's post-war fleet was SS
Rotterdam, completed in 1959, which was one of the first ships on
the North Atlantic equipped to offer two-class transatlantic
crossings and single-class luxury cruising. However, competition
from the airlines meant that in the early 1970s Holland America
ended their transatlantic passenger services; in 1973 the company
sold its cargo-shipping division. Now owned by the American cruise
line Carnival, Holland America offers round-the-world voyages and
cruises in the Mediterranean, the Caribbean and Asia. In this book,
renowned ocean liner historian and author William H. Miller takes a
look at the Holland America Line and its post-war fleet up to 2015.
France produced some of the finest and best-decorated passenger
ships of the twentieth century. Beginning in 1912 with the
four-funnel France, the nostalgic voyage continues with the great
and grand transatlantic liners of the French Line, the CGT. These
include the famous Ile-de-France, Normandie and Liberte, as well as
the lesser passenger ships of the French Line. In addition, focus
is given to Compagnie de Navigation Sud-Atlantique, Transports
Maritimes and Chargeurs Reunis operating important South American
routes and to Messageries Maritimes running in Africa, the East and
the South Pacific. Packed full of nostalgic reminiscence of great
ship days gone by, the book explores majestic liners, mail boats to
Africa and colonial steamers to Saigon. Presenting many previously
unpublished images alongside insightful text and anecdotes, William
H. Miller brings the reader on board France's greatest
transatlantic liners.
In the early 1950s it seemed as if Greek shipping companies were
springing up everywhere. For a country almost unknown as a
passenger ship-owning state, the likes of the Greek Line, Chandris
and Epirotiki burst onto the scene, often using second hand tonnage
and ships acquired from the Western European fleets that were being
updated. The lines soon took advantage of the mass emigration from
Europe to Australia and New Zealand as well as cruising, which was
then in its infancy. Although many of the Greek lines such as Royal
Olympic Cruises are now gone, the likes of Chandris still survives
today as Celebrity Cruises. Bill Miller, the noted maritime
historian, brings together a collection of images of his favourite
Greek liners and tells of the history of the Greek fleets that made
the world of cruising so exciting in the last half century.
The Royal Mail has, for over 500 years, provided a crucial service
in keeping people connected by land, sea and air. As the British
Empire grew, so too did the need for a fleet of liners to service
it, and in 1839 Queen Victoria granted the initial Royal Charter
incorporating the Royal Mail Steam Packet Co. After running into
financial trouble, the company was reconstituted as Royal Mail
Lines in 1930. With his superb collection of rare images, Bill
Miller brings to life the ships that operated for the line in the
twentieth century. Covering the turbulent period of the Second
World War, as well as more peaceful and prosperous times, this
collection of images illuminates the stories behind some of the
great iconic liners. Some of the ships featured include RMS
Asturias and RMS Alcantara, at the time the largest motor ships in
the world, and the RMS Magdalena, which sank on its maiden voyage
in 1949.
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book
may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages,
poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the
original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We
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imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of
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++++ Proceedings Of The Missouri River Improvement Convention: Held
At Kansas City, Mo. December 15th And 16th, 1891 William H. Miller
Lawton & Burnap, printers, 1891 History; United States; 19th
Century; History / United States / 19th Century; Missouri River
This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This
IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced
typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have
occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor
pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original
artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe
this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections,
have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing
commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We
appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the
preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
In a society predicated on information, the media has a pervasive
presence. From government policy to leisure television, the
information age touches us all. The papers collected in this book
constitute some of today's leading analyses of the information
industry. Together, these essays represent a needed foundation for
understanding the present state and future development of the mass
media. Current trends in communications as well as media impact on
public opinion are studied and reported on.
This is the story of the last class-divided passenger ships that
carried travellers from point to point. In the final years of
activity, spanning from the 1940s to the 1960s, they carried
Hollywood stars and even royalty on the Atlantic, businessmen to
South America and Africa, migrants to Australia and New Zealand,
and visitors returning to European homelands. Last of the Blue
Water Liners nods to the Atlantic liners but also revels in the
many other passenger ships that plied trades around the world:
vessels like the Antilles, Oslofjord, Kampala and Changsha.
Complete with rare images and the insight of the prolific maritime
historian William H. Miller, this book is a nostalgic parade of a
bygone age, a generation of ships all but swept away in the 1960s
and 1970s as jet travel changed the world.
It is hard to think of the passenger liners from the golden era of
Mediterranean cruising without also conjuring the nostalgic,
dream-like vision of azure-blue waters, bright sunshine and
swimming pools with clusters of umbrellas and sunbathing
passengers. The great age of Mediterranean passenger liners began
in the 1920s when the Italians built their first big ships, such as
the Augustus, Saturnia and Conte Grande. In the 1930s, things got
really interesting with the creation of the superliners Rex and
Conte di Savoia. In the 1950s and '60s, as Italy built a huge
post-war fleet, Greece, Spain, Portugal, Turkey and Israel
commissioned their biggest ships yet. William Miller has written
ninety books on passenger ships and is an acknowledged world expert
in his field. Full of colour and the first-hand memories of
passengers and crew, this endearing reflection on the majestic
world of Mediterranean travel cannot be missed. Quick, the whistles
are sounding!
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