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Great Mediterranean Passenger Ships
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 …
Greek Passenger 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 …
Ships of Splendour
The great passenger liners of the twentieth century make for iconic images of maritime history and design. Ships of Splendour presents the development of passenger ships across the …
Great Passenger Ships 1950-1960
The 1950s was a fascinating decade for the great liners. After the global devastation of two decades of war and Depression, shipyards were creating one new liner after another, it …
Great Passenger Ships 1920-1930
Celebrating the majestic passenger liners of the twenties, Great Passenger Ships 1920–1930 looks at well-loved ships, such as Majestic, Olympic, Berengaria, Viceroy of India and …
First Class Cargo
An unusual blend of cargo freight, holiday-making passengers and government officials, the combination cargo-passenger ship is an oddity now all but relegated to the past. In its …
SS Normandie
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 …
100 Years of Cruise Ships in Colour
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. …
Handling Cargo
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 …
Great Passenger Ships 1910-1920
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. …
Great American Passenger Ships
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 …
Under the Red Ensign
It was the Golden Age of British passenger shipping, when new liners were still being constructed and the finest liners afloat, the Cunard Queens, were at their peak. The aeroplane …