THE ATLANTIC FERRY IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
Written by F. Reid Corson
Published by Sampson Low, Marston & Co. Ltd.
THE ATLANTIC FERRY IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
Written by F. Reid Corson.
Stock no. 1810421
Circa.
1937.
Hardback.
Good condition.
Pale blue cloth, black titles. Colour folding frontis and b/w plates & illustrations. Mottling to cloth boards. Fraying/splits to top sides of spine. Spine faded. Neat inscription in ink to front pastedown. One hinge pulled but binding tight.
Front cover
Contents
- The Ferry in 1900
- The Comng of the Turbine
- The Years Before the War
- The War and its Aftermath
- Post-War Developments on the Ferry
- The Cunard Line
- The White Star and Leyland Lines
- The Anchor, Anchor-Donaldson, and Scandinavian Lines
- The Dominion, Beaver, Allan, and Canadian Pacific Lines
- The American, Red Star, Atlantic Transport, and United States Lines
- The German Lines
- The French and Dutch Lines
- The Italian Lines
- "Rolling Down to Rio"
- The Future of the Atlantic Ferry
- Wireless Telegraphy on the Atlantic
- Tragedies of the Atlantic
- The Appendices:
- A. House-flags and Funnels of the Atlantic Lines
- B. Some Notable Atlantic Liners
- C. Dimensions and Speed of Representative Liners
- D. Chart Showing the Developments since 1900 of the Atlantic Liner
- E. Manning of the Atlantic Liner
- F. Important Ships which have changed their Names
- G. Numbers of passengers carried in 1928 and 1929 by the Seven Leading Lines
- H. List of Vessels Lost on the Ferry since 1899
- I. The Blue Riband; Atlantic Speed Records since 1900