Cabin Class Rivals (Pocket)
avDavid L. Williams, Richard P. De Kerbrech, David L. Williams
ISBN: 9780750956598 - UTGIVEN: 2015-07During the late 1920s and early 1930s three pairs of unique and innovative passenger liners emerged from France, the UK and the US designated as cabin-class liners: the Lafayette and Champlain, Britannic and Georgic and the Manhattan and Washington - three steamships and three motorships. Born at th[...]
J. Samuel White & Co., Shipbuilders (Häftad)
avRichard P. de Kerbrech
ISBN: 9780752466125 - UTGIVEN: 201207J. Samuel White & Company was the oldest firm on the Admiralty List and built 252 ships for the Royal Navy alone. The yard's closure in 1966 ended 300 years of shipbuilding during which time the company had gained acclaim from mercantile and naval customers alike. Famed early on for fast Revenue cut[...]
Down Amongst the Black Gang (Pocket)
avRichard P. De Kerbrech
ISBN: 9780752493237 - UTGIVEN: 2014-06Down in the fiery belly of the luxury liners of the Titanic era, a world away from the first-class dining rooms and sedate tours of the deck, toiled the 'black gang'. Their work was gruelling and hot, and here deKerbrech introduces the reader to the dimly lit world and workplace of Titanic's stokers[...]
