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Great British Passenger Ships

An illustrated history that charts the heyday of the British passenger ship, those great and grand vessels that connected the continents, but also those far-off colonial outposts of the Empire.

There were the great Cunarders, of course, but then also the likes of Booth Line to the exotic Amazon, Royal Mail to Rio and Buenos Aires, Union Castle to South ad East Africa, British India to the likes of Bombay and Calcutta, and the iconic P&O to ports such as Sydney, Singapore and colonial Hong Kong.

Passenger ships both large and small are covered in these pages, alongside passenger-cargo types. Presenting many previously unpublished images alongside historic, insightful text that combines personal anecdotes of the ships and their voyages from passengers and crew alike, William Miller takes the reader on a nostalgic voyage - an evocative trip looking at days long past.

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The British Cruise Ship - An Illustrated History 1945-2014

Ian Collard continues the story of British cruising from the end of the Second World War, when Cunard began construction of their 'green goddess', the Caronia, aimed squarely at the American market.
The 1960s saw a shift from line voyages to cruising as the major money earner for all of the British passenger lines. The QE2 and Canberra made up the bulk of British cruise voyages in the 1970s and early 1980s.
By the 1990s, there had been a resurgence in cruising, with new cruise ships and companies operating. From a low of 180,000 passengers in 1981 to some 1.5 million in 2013, British cruising is alive and well.

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Liverpool's Last Ocean Liners - The Golden Age

At one time, Liverpool's landing stage was so busy that ships would be literally queuing in the Mersey to discharge and embark passengers. However, the period from the late 1940s saw both the golden age of Liverpool shipping as well as the decline of its passenger trade.

From the early 1960s, though, Liverpool's passenger trade entered a downturn that was unstoppable. The Jet Age has seen the loss of much of its trade and shipping line after shipping line moved away from the port or stopped its ships sailing and sold them for scrap or service with foreign lines.
Liverpool now has a new landing stage to accommodate visiting cruise ships back in the Mersey.

Here John Sheperd tells the story, using the memories of those who sailed in them, of the halcyon days of the passenger liners which sailed from the Mersey.

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Une ligne mythique: Paquebots français et britanniques sur l'Atlantique Nord entre 1890 et 1940

This book focuses on studying three major shipping lines: the British White Star Line and Cunard Line, and the French Compagnie Générale Transatlantique.
Organized around several major themes, discover how each of these companies established ties with their government, how they approached the race for size and speed, and how they faced the challenges of security in the face of the terrible tragedies that were unfolding on this dangerous ocean.

From the Titanic to the Normandy, an entire transatlantic society is outlined here, both isolated from the terrestrial world and yet its extension. Because between 1890 and 1940, these two "golden ages" of ocean liner travel separated by a world war are also a reflection of the developments and ruptures of their time.

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