Passenger Ships.

CodeNameDescriptionPrice
1149Normandie: Liner of Legend by Clive HarveyThe Normandie was destroyed by fire in 1942. Before that she was a showcase for French art and design. She cost over $60 million to build but was taken over during WWII by the US Navy and was destroyed whilst undergoing conversion to a troopship.   
 		 

1157RMS Empress of Ireland by Derek GroutTitanic jumps into the mind when major shipping disasters are thought of, but the tragedy of the Empress of Ireland only two years after on the Canadian St. Lawrence waterway is almost forgotten. The author redresses some of the balance.   
 		 

1133RMS Queen Elizabeth by Janette McCutcheonThe ship built in troubled times of the 1938 Munich crisis so she was first a Troopship before starting transatlantic voyages until high-speed airliners took away that trade. She was eventually sold with a plan that she would become an educational cruise liner. Fate intervened and fire destroyed her at her Hong Kong berth. She was finally scrapped in 1972. The book with 250 illustrations tells the complete story.   
 		 

1123MacQueens Legacy Vol 1: History of Royal Mail Lines by Stuart Nicol First of two volumes covering the company and its fleet founded by James MacQueen to make his vision of a world wide network of mail carrying steamers a reality. At one time it was the largest shipping company in the world but by 1960 was finished.   
 		 

1124MacQueens Legacy Vol 2: History of Royal Mail Ships by Stuart NicolSecond of two volumes covering the company and its fleet founded by James McQueen to make his vision of a world wide network of mail carrying steamers a reality. At one time it was the largest shipping company in the world but by 1960 was finished.   
 		 

1126RMS Mauritania:The Ship and Her Record by GeraldAylmerThe story of one of the best known and beloved ships of the North Atlantic route. Passenger ship, trooper and hospital ship, each facet of her history has been faithfully recorded.   
 		 

1145Plymouth-Ocean Liner Port of Call by Alan KitteridgeThe book traces the history of Plymouth as the port of call for transatlantic liners since 1840. Photographs depict the liners and their tenders. These latter craft moving passengers and luggage between ship and rail heads at Millbay and Devonport   
 		 

1107Berengaria: Cunards Happy Ship by Les StreaterThe detailed story of one of Cunard's most popular passenger liners.   
 		 


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