Rms Aquitania

Author : Mark Chirnside
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ISBN 13 : 9780752444444
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book RMS Aquitania written by Mark Chirnside and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She entered service two months before the start of World War I, was scrapped six years after World War II ended, and was the longest lasting of all four funnelled liners. For two wars, she spent much time transporting troops but for the rest of her career she traveled the North Atlantic as one of the most famous liners afloat. Holding many records, Aquitania was built for the Cunard Line, not for speed but for luxury, at which she excelled, being called the Ship Magnificent from her entry into service. Mark Chirnside writes with a passion about this most beautiful of ships, a ship that was the epitome of the four-funnelled liner.

Author : Alexander Meyrick Broadley
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ship Beautiful: Art and the Aquitania written by Alexander Meyrick Broadley and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 276 pages
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Download or read book The Cunard Quadruple-screw Atlantic Liner "Aquitania," 45,647 Gross Tons, Britain's Largest Steamship written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David Ellery
Publisher : Copyright © Seaforth Publishing
ISBN 13 : 139905306X
Total Pages : 526 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book RMS Queen Mary written by David Ellery and published by Copyright © Seaforth Publishing. This book was released on 2023-08-18 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Probably the most famous, and certainly one of the best-loved ships in the world, the Cunard transatlantic liner RMS Queen Mary has now been preserved at Long Beach, California as a floating hotel and tourist attraction for more than fifty years, comfortably longer than her 31-year career as an ocean liner. Laid down in 1930, Queen Mary’s construction was severely delayed by the Great Depression. Eventually completed in 1936, the ship was an instant success, capturing the famous Blue Riband for the fastest crossing of the Atlantic later that year, and regaining it in 1938. During the Second World War she served as a troop ship, carrying a total of 810,730 troops and also setting the record for the most individuals carried in a single voyage – 16,683 – which stands to this day. By the time she ceased passenger service in 1967, superseded by the airliner as the preferred mode for international travel, Queen Mary had carried nearly three million people, from royalty, politicians and film stars to emigrants and cruise passengers. After her sale to the city of Long Beach she underwent a major conversion for her new life as a visitor attraction, a role she has continued ever since. During this time however, her story has been far from straightforward, with controversies over management, funding and even the structural integrity of the very ship itself. She now remains the only 1930s superliner left in the world. The original edition of RMS Queen Mary, the World’s Favourite Liner was published in 1994. This new and expanded edition has been completely revised and brought up to date to describe the ship’s last twenty-five years, and it incorporates a wealth of new photography. Lavishly produced and stunningly illustrated throughout with views of the ship under construction, at sea in her heyday and at rest in Long Beach, it will appeal to all ocean liner enthusiasts and those more general readers fascinated by the heyday of transatlantic travel.

Author : United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 46 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Passenger Ships Owned by the United States Government written by United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Pateman
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1304711749
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cray to Canada: Frank Rodbourne Goes To War written by John Pateman and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-12-13 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Frank Rodbourne and his time in the Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Force during the Great War.

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Total Pages : 160 pages
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Download or read book The Quadruple-screw Turbine-driven Cunard Liner "Aquitania" Constructed and Engined by Messrs, John Brown and Co., Ltd., Sheffield and Clydebank ... written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book RMS Aquitania written by and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Description: Black and white photograph of RMS Aquitania.

Author : J. Kent Layton
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ISBN 13 : 9780557084463
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Atlantic Liners: A Trio of Trios written by J. Kent Layton and published by . This book was released on 2009-07-10 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They formed three trios of wonder ships. From the Cunard Line came the Lusitania, Mauretania, and Aquitania. From the White Star Line came the Olympic, the infamous Titanic, and the Britannic. From the Hamburg-Amerika Line came the Imperator, Vaterland and Bismarck, which would later find service as Cunard's Berengaria, the U.S. Line's Leviathan, and White Star's Majestic. They were, in turn, the fastest, most powerful, largest and most luxurious ocean liners that had ever sailed that ocean. Some would find great success; others would suffer disaster. Their careers would be affected by natural elements, by mismanagement, and by the brutalities of war. Their fates were also inextricably intertwined. The all-new 2009 Version of "Atlantic Liners" boasts over 730 photos, as well as nearly a dozen general arrangement plans of the ships. An Introduction has been penned by Mark Chirnside.

Author : Sulari Gentill
Publisher : Pantera Press
ISBN 13 : 192199701X
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Decline in Prophets written by Sulari Gentill and published by Pantera Press. This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Murder and Intrigue When High Society Meets the High Seas – A Gripping Historical Mystery The Second Book of the Acclaimed Rowland Sinclair Mysteries, the Historical Crime Series The luxury liner, RMS Aquitania, embodies all that is gracious and refined, in a world gripped crisis and doubt. But elegant atmosphere on board is charged with tension. Civility remains... but how long will the peace hold when people start to die? After months abroad, Rowland Sinclair and his companions begin their journey home on the ship. The heroes dine with a suffragette, a Bishop and a retired World Prophet. The Church encounters less orthodox religion in the Aquitania's chandeliered ballroom, where men of God rub shoulders with mystics in dinner suits. Gentill's razor-sharp voice draws these wonderfully diverse characters, and as the pressure rises, so too does a foreboding sense of intrigue. As the bodies pile up, and Rowland unwittingly finds himself at the centre of it all again, can he unravel the mystery and stop these heinous crimes before he and his friends become victims themselves? Gentill captures the readers interest and imagination from the first page in this superbly narrated and observed novel. A highly amusing adventure amidst the horrors of death and the bizarre nature of 1930s society.