Built at Cammell Laird at Birkenhead in 1939. It was the largest liner to be built in England at 739 feet long and 1.170 passengers. Trooping between N Atlantic and Australia she encircled the world in 81 1/2 days, faster than any other ship. Biggest…
RMS Mauretania (Cunard), built by Swan Hunter Ltd., in Newcastle-on-Tyne, weighting 31,950 tons. The Mauretania served on the North Atlantic run from 1907 to 1935 and is probably the most famous and best-remembered of all the Atlantic…
A typical continental freighter loading china clay from the gravity chute, an almost daily scene (at what is now) one of Cornwall's busiest small ports.
RMS Majestic, White Star Line. At the time White Star merged with Cunard in 1934, the Majestic was the largest ship afloat. In 1947, the White Star name was eliminated from the title. This is a general view of the Majestic's reception area with stair…
The Windsor Castle, Union Castle Mail Steamship Co. (Southampton - Cape Town). This is a general view of the first class dining salon. 'Castle' ships dominated the South African routes for many years.
The Khyber was a Liverpool ship which wrecked with a loss of 23 lives close to Porthole Cove, south of Lands End on March 15, 1905, carrying grain from Australia to Falmouth.
Picture are John Willis, Harris and Johnson. The rest of the crew buried…