Offering real insight into the life on board during the "Mauretania's" exotic cruises, a colorful, illustrative history of the second RMS "Mauretania"

The RMS "Mauretania," the second, was a smaller version of the luxurious Cunard Queens. She ran the London to New York service from the River Thames and enjoyed enormous popularity from her launch in 1938 to her retirement in 1965, when the great age of the ocean liners waned at last. Spending time as a troopship in World War II, she then returned to the transatlantic route and even embarked upon a world cruise. Andrew Britton presents a...

A colorful new history of the historic RMS "Queen Mary," now a floating museum and restaurant

Including deck plans, accounts from log books, and ship records, this book tells the story of Cunard's RMS "Queen Mary," who along with her running mate "Queen Elizabeth" covered the transatlantic route from Southampton to New York via Cherbourg, the British answer to the German and French superliners. She was launched in May 1936 and immediately won the coveted Blue Riband, winning it again in 1938, before she served as a troop ship in the war. She then carried on plying the Atlantic route with...