Great Passenger Ships 1910-1920 [Audiobook] download free by William Miller
- Listen audiobook: Great Passenger Ships 1910-1920
- Author: William Miller
- Release date: 2011/3/21
- Publisher: THE HISTORY PRESS LTD
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Transportation
- ISBN: 9780752456638
- Rating: 7.11 of 10
- Votes: 794
- Review by: Conner Hiatt
- Review rating: 8.07 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/9/30
- Duration: 1H11M22S in 256 kbps (19.2 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-07-17
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: TTA, MP3, MPEG4, FLAC, Apple Lossless, Musepack, WMA, WAV (compression TBZ2, TGZ, RPM, AZW4, ZIP, RAR)
- Total pages original book: 96
- Includes a PDF summary of 11 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 7M30S (2.2 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: It was an age of evolution, when size and speed were almost the ultimate considerations. `Bigger was said to be better' and ship owners were not exempted from the prevailing mood. While the German four-stackers of 1897-06 and then Cunard's brilliant Mauretania & Lusitania of 1907 led the way to larger and grander liners. White Star Line countered by 1911 with the Olympic, her sister Titanic and a near-sister, the Britannic. The French added the France while Cunard took delivery of the beloved Aquitania. But the Germans won out - they produced the 52,000-ton Imperator and a near-sister, the Vaterland, the last word in shipbuilding and engineering prior to the First World War. They and their sister, the Bismarck, remained the biggest ships in the world until 1935.But other passenger ships appear in this decade - other Atlantic liners, but also ships serving on more diverse routes: Union Castle to Africa, P&O to India and beyond, the Empress liners on the trans-Pacific run. We look at a grand age of maritime creation, ocean-going superlative, but also sad destruction in the dark days of the First War. It was, in all ways, a fascinating period.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Maritime History, Ships & Shipping
- Download servers: FileServe, Dropbox, Your Bittorrent, S42Transfer, Hotfile, FreakShare, MEGA. Compressed in TBZ2, TGZ, RPM, AZW4, ZIP, RAR
- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 21.04 USD
- Dimensions: 165x235x10mm
- Weight: 320g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: Stroud, United Kingdom
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