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Puck Magazine c.1911
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Traveling in 1930s style…I love the slogan.
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“The White Star liner RMS Oceanic in heavy seas” (1907) painted by Antonio Jacobsen (1850-1921).
She was built in 1899 and she was, at the time of her construction, the biggest ship in the world. Her design was considered as quite elegant with many describing her as “yacht-like”. As the flagship of White Star, she operated on the Liverpool-Newy York Line until the outbreak of WW1. She became the first White Star Liner on which a mutiny took place: in 1905 30 coalers took possesion of the ship demanding better work conditions. Although she tried, she wasn’t able to help the RMS Titanic during her sinking in 1912, as she was too far away. She however managed to find an lifeboat with three corpses on it.
She was lost on September 7th 1914, when she collided with a cliff near the scottish island Foula after having been converted into an auxiliary cruiser.
Source: Wikipedia, wallyfindlay.com
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Interesting documentary about the wreck of the SS Atlantic in 1873 (Atlantic’s sister ship, the Gothic, pictured above.)
SS Gothic: built 1893 at Harland and Wolff Shipyards for White Star Line. 490 ft long, 53 ft wide. Caught fire 1906, ran aground 1924, scrapped 1925. more
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Stokers Frisco bound
abt 1900
The Blackgang
Nearly 200 victims of the sinking of SS Portland are remembered
It is believed that at least 194 people died when the side-paddle passenger steamship went down north of Cape Cod on Nov. 27, 1898. Despite warnings of a terrible storm, the ship was returning on its regular overnight run from Boston to its home port of Portland on the Saturday after Thanksgiving.
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S.S. Bremen entering Panama Canal.
La Veloce was a shipping company formed in 1884, then liquidated in 1924 following its acquisition by Navigazione Generale Italiana
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The Great White Liner “South American” owned by Duluth & Georgian Bay Transit Co. in Chicago, Illinois, circa 1915-1930. Caption reads: “The World's Finest Vacation on your Own Great Lakes”
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The golden age of the steamship. A Century of Sea Travel by Christopher Deakes and Tom Stanley, published by Seaforth Publishing