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Atlantic Liners: A Trio of Trios
~ by J. Kent Layton

Publication Details:

CafePress Publishing, 2005
Softcover, 305pgs.
Revised 2006

293 photographs & illustrations (many never before published)
23 plans, including full general arrangement plans for each vessel

Synopsis

: A brief history of the development of the steamship and the early Atlantic liners.

:Cunard
-Lusitania: Development, construction, career, and loss.
-Mauretania: Development, construction, career and wartime service.
-Aquitania: Development, construction, career, wartime service (WW1/WW2), personal account.

White Star
-Olympic: Development, construction, career and wartime service.
-Titanic: Construction, trials, maiden voyage, sinking, aftermath.
-Britannic: Modifications, conversion, wartime service as hospital ship, sinking, and new information on the ship's official transport number.

The Hamburg-Amerika Line
-Imperator/Berengaria: Development, early career, postwar conversion to Berengaria for the Cunard Line, and career.
-Vaterland/Leviathan: Construction, differences from Imperator, internment in New York during War, conversion to U.S.S. Leviathan, and career with United States Line as S.S. Leviathan after the War.
-Bismarck/Majestic: The largest ship in the world for longer than the Lusitania, Mauretania, Olympic and Titanic combined, she never saw service with HAPAG. Instead, she was completed as the White Star flagship Majestic. Construction, conversion, career.

End matter includes a comparison of the nine ships' statistics, a bibliography, photo credits and acknowledgments.

Ordering Information

"Atlantic Liners: A Trio of Trios" is not available from Barnes & Noble, from Amazon, or from your local bookstore.

• Standard copies can be purchased for $29.99+ s/h.
• Signed & numbered copies (limited to 500) can be purchased for $39.99 + s/h.

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Odds & Ends

It is sincerely hoped that you enjoy your time spent here at the Atlantic Liners site, and that you enjoy the new publication. A full list of acknowledgments can be found in the new book. However, it would only be appropriate to, once again, extend my sincerest thanks to everyone who had a hand in this project.

Recommendation: If your interest is on the in particular, please check out the preview of my new project,"R.M.S. Lusitania: An Illustrated Biography of the Ship of Splendor", which will be available soon.