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Category : Ocean liners
Languages : en
Pages : 184

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Author: John Maxtone-Graham
Publisher: Bulfinch Press
ISBN: 0821228846
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 216

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This book documents the creation, from keel laying to christening, of one of the most ambitious passenger vessels of all time, Cunard Line's new flagship, the Queen Mary 2. The story of the Queen Mary 2 is told by noted maritime historian John Maxtone-Graham, whose engaging text takes us through the building of the ship and details its world-class amenities.

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Languages : en
Pages : 822

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Category : Marine engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 794

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Includes section "Book Reviews".

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Category : Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 1130

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Author: Eric L. Clements
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1844862887
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 337

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Responding to Titanic's distress calls in the early hours of 15 April 1912, Captain Arthur Rostron raced the Cunard liner Carpathia to the scene of the sinking, rescued the seven hundred survivors of the world's most famous shipwreck and then carried them to safety at New York. After twenty-five years at sea, the competence and compassion Rostron displayed during the rescue made him a hero on two continents and presaged his subsequent achievements. During the First World War he participated in the invasion of Gallipoli and commanded Cunard's Mauretania as a hospital ship in the Mediterranean and a troop transport in the Atlantic. As her longest-serving master he commanded that legendary vessel in transatlantic passenger service through most of the 1920s. Rostron retired in 1931 as the most esteemed master mariner of his era, celebrated for the Titanic rescue, decorated for his war service, and knighted for his contributions to British seafaring. This account uses newspaper reports, company records, government documents, contemporary publications and memoirs to recount Rostron's seafaring life from his first voyage as an apprentice rounding Cape Horn in sail to his retirement forty-four years later as commodore of the Cunard Line. Set within the context of his times and featuring particulars of the ships in which he served and commanded, this is the first comprehensive biography of Arthur Rostron before, during and after his year as captain of the Carpathia.

Author: Frank Osborn Braynard
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486265501
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 151

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Photographs, prints, and text portray Cunard ships, inside and out, from the earliest steamships, through the great liners of the earlier twentieth century, to modern cruise ships

Author: John A. Fostik MBA
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1439651515
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 128

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For 175 years, passenger ships have crossed the Atlantic, linking the Old World with the New World. Between 1892 and 1954, more than 12 million immigrants passed through the port of New York. National rivalries caused ships to grow in size, speed, and a comfort that had once been unimaginable. The advent of the passenger jet in 1958 changed how people travel. New York's harbor is now quieter, and there are no longer days with six liners ready to sail to fabled European ports. Happily, one can still sail to Europe, cruise the Caribbean, or take a world cruise from Manhattan aboard a new generation of liners like the Queen Mary 2. New York's Liners captures iconic images of the great ships from the 1890s to the present day.

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Category : Lusitania (Steamship)
Languages : en
Pages : 207

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Author: Royal Institution of Naval Architects
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Category : Naval architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 462

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List of members in each volume.