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

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

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

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

Section Three: The Hamburg-Amerika Line
Chapter Seven - Imperator/Berengaria: Development, early career, postwar conversion to Berengaria for the Cunard Line, and career.
Chapter Eight - 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.
Chapter Nine - 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.

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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 Lusitania in particular, please take a look at my second book, "R.M.S. Lusitania: An Illustrated Biography of the Ship of Splendor", now available.