Year: 1974 Language: english Author: Hughes T. Genre: History Publisher: Charles Scribner's sons ISBN: 9780684137773 Format: PDF Quality: Scanned pages Pages count: 192 Description: The blue riband of the Atlantic was the symbolic prize awarded to the luxury liner which made the fastest crossing of the Atlantic Ocean. For more than ten decades the Atlantic Ocean was the setting for intense rivalry between shipowners in Western Europe and North America, competing for the prestige, passenger traffic, and financial rewards which would accrue to the company operating the largest, fastest, and most luxurious liners. This struggle for supremacy led to the building of a long line of ships which epitomised all that was finest in naval architecture and marine engineering. This book begins with a description of the origins of ocean steamship travel and then discusses the development and careers of the most famous ships involved — including the Lusitania, the Mauretania, the Queen Mary — and concludes with the retirement of the United States, whose record crossing was three days, ten hours, and forty minutes. Included are details of both the ships and the companies which designed and built them. The book provides a vivid picture of an exciting era now gone forever.
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The Blue Riband of the Atlantic
Language: english
Author: Hughes T.
Genre: History
Publisher: Charles Scribner's sons
ISBN: 9780684137773
Format: PDF
Quality: Scanned pages
Pages count: 192
Description: The blue riband of the Atlantic was the symbolic prize awarded to the luxury liner which made the fastest crossing of the Atlantic Ocean. For more than ten decades the Atlantic Ocean was the setting for intense rivalry between shipowners in Western Europe and North America, competing for the prestige, passenger traffic, and financial rewards which would accrue to the company operating the largest, fastest, and most luxurious liners. This struggle for supremacy led to the building of a long line of ships which epitomised all that was finest in naval architecture and marine engineering.
This book begins with a description of the origins of ocean steamship travel and then discusses the development and careers of the most famous ships involved — including the Lusitania, the Mauretania, the Queen Mary — and concludes with the retirement of the United States, whose record crossing was three days, ten hours, and forty minutes.
Included are details of both the ships and the companies which designed and built them.
The book provides a vivid picture of an exciting era now gone forever.
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