The centenary commemoration for World War I dominates our image of the year 1914, but it once held great promise for Liverpool’s vibrant shipping industry. On May 30, 1914, one of the greatest ocean ...
To mark the arrival of the first ships of the 2013 cruise season at Dockyard, the Bermuda National Museum this week posted a vintage film of a 1935 visit to the island by one of the most majestic ...
Only last month we were touting new innovations at sea - from aerial viewing pods to simulated sky diving and scientific research vessels that beam images from the deep to paying passengers on board.
Aquitania, launched in April 1913 by the Countess of Derby, only made three round trips until war intervened. Unlike the Lusitania, Aquitania, affectionately referred to by her crew as “Old ...
RMS Aquitania, the most luxurious ocean liner ever imagined, had its maiden, cross-Atlantic voyage in May 1914. One hundred years ago this week Sydney's The World's News marvelled at this marvel.
The sight of photographers crowding around a newly docked ocean liner was nothing new at the turn of the 20th Century. Disembarking celebrities could be photographed jostling for space alongside ...
On May 30 1914 one of the greatest ocean liners of all time, Cunard’s superlliner RMS Aquitania, started her maiden voyage from Liverpool to New York The centenary commemoration for World War I ...