The liners : a history of the North Atlantic crossing /

The story of the great and beautiful ships, built for speed and comfort, that regularly plied between Europe and America on the North Atlantic route. It is the story of a line in ship design that runs from Brunel's Great Eastern through the early Cunarders and the might German ships of the late...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Coleman, Terry, 1931- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Putnam, [1977]
Edition:1st American ed.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Lights, burning bright and all's well, sir.
  • The Kaiser, J.P. Morgan, and the Mauretania.
  • The greatest of the works of man.
  • How the eagle lost its wings.
  • 'Deck
  • ship
  • at sea!"
  • 534 and T6 : Queen Mary and Normandie.
  • The war and other hazards.
  • High days and Valhalla.
  • QE2 and the ship of the Sun King.