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This well-researched book tells the fascinating story of the then-most-famous liner in the world, the Mauretania. Built for the North Atlantic she was created to regain the fabled Blue Ribband that had been taken from Great Britain by a rapidly expanding and imperially ambitious Germany. Although she and her sistership, Lusitania, did regain the Ribband, speed was only part of the reason of why she had been constructed; rapid conversion into an Armed Merchant Cruiser in time of war was a role never realized as, when war finally came, this Cunard liner became a fast troopship and a hospital ship. After the Armistice, "The Grand Old Lady of the North Atlantic" continued to astound, retaining the Blue Ribband for an amazing 22 years! David Hutching re-examines this legendary ship.
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David Hutchings is a shipbuilder and the author of many successful books, including RMS Titanic Owners' Workshop Manual and The Titanic Story.
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- PublisherThe History Press
- Publication date2019
- ISBN 10 0750985844
- ISBN 13 9780750985840
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages312
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hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 2019 The History Press (Stroud, Gloucestershire, England), oblong 10 x 9 1/8 inches tall black cloth hardcover in publisher's unclipped dust jacket, gilt lettering to spine, ribbon marker sewn in, copiously illustrated with black-and-white and color photographs and maps, 312 pp. plus 16 unnumbered pages of plates. Very slight soiling and rubbing to covers. Otherwise, a near fine copy - clean, bright and unmarked - in a like dust jacket which is nicely preserved and displayed in a clear archival Brodart sleeve. Note that this is a heavy and oversized book, so additional postage will be required for international or priority orders. ~KK~ [4.0P] Five years in the making, RMS Mauretania and her sister the Lusitania represented a new era in British shipbuilding. Ostensibly built to compete against record-breaking German behemoths, the Mauretania was not only one of the first major ships to be turbine-driven or have four propellers ? she was the largest moving structure ever to have been created by man at that time. And, soon enough, she would become the fastest as well.But the Mauretania wasn?t just built for luxury. When war was declared in August 1914, she was pressed into service as a troop- and hospital ship. Where once she had carried society ladies, she now carried soldiers.Intensely researched and with over 100 photographs and illustrations, RMS Mauretania (1907): Queen of the Ocean is the definitive book on this most remarkable liner. Seller Inventory # KK-0252-14763
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