North Atlantic Panorama, 1900-1976 |
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16 knots 20 knots air conditioned American Anchor Line armed merchant cruiser became Blue Riband boilers BREMEN British built Canadian Pacific cargo carry the name cruise liner Cunard Line diesel FRANCE funnels Genoa German gross tonnage Hamburg Hamburg-Amerika Line HAPAG Harland and Wolff Havre Holland-America Line hull Italia Line KAISER WILHELM laid later le Havre Line SS Liverpool LUSITANIA luxury maiden voyage MAURETANIA Norddeutscher Lloyd North Atlantic service outbreak of World passenger accommodation passenger liner ports PR-W public rooms quadruple-expansion engines QUEEN ELIZABETH QUEEN MARY Real Photographs Red Star Line renamed Rotterdam sailed screw shafts second class service speed ship to carry single-reduction-geared sister ship sold for scrap Southampton speed in service speed of 16 SS EMPRESS stabilisers steam turbines Swedish-American Line third class passengers torpedoed and sunk tourist class passengers troops troopship twin-screw United States Lines White Star Line World War II yard York service