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All ssMaritime and other related maritime sites are 100% non-commercial and
privately owned, thus ssmaritime is NOT associated with any shipping company or
any other organisation! Although the author has worked and been involved in the
passenger shipping industry for well over 60 years, but due to his old age and
poor health, he was forced to retire. Yet, he has completed well over 1,435
Classic Liners, Passenger-Cargo Liners as well as humble converted C3 converted
Migrant Liners, which has transported countless thousands of folk to the new
world, as well on vacations’. Amazingly, ssmaritime.com has received
573.4 million visitors to date I trust the features online will continue to
provide Classic Liner and Ship enthusiasts both the information they are
seeking, but more so provide a great deal of pleasure and relive many happy
memories!
Also Note: The email service to ssMaritime is
sadly no longer available, due to Mr.
Goossens’ old age and severe chronic illnesses as well as being
completely disabled, etc. since the 1990’s ssMaritime has received a
large number of emails each day, but
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Please Note: In
recent times a good number of ships were discovered on the system and many of
these are now online:
The 14 ships (and several more since) below
have now been uploaded, and these ships include … 1. From France
came one of the most amazing French liners ever, being the magnificent first
ever Art Deco style S.S.
Île de France of 1927, she remained the
“French Lines” most popular ship ever, in spite of their new super
sized and fast liner 2. the S.S. Normandie of 1935, which was one of the greatest ships, but sadly she was
their least successful ships ever. Then there were four simply delightful Dutch
liners, 3. the S.S. Prinses Amalia of 1874, 4. the S.S. Gelria of 1913, and 5. the S.S. Jan
Pieterszoon Coen of 1915, and 6. the M.S. Colombia
of 1930, next is the magnificent Scandinavian super luxury cruise ship 7.
the M.Y.
Stella Polaris of 1927, and two great Italian
liners - 8. the S.S. Conte Grande of 1928, and 9. the S.S. Frederico C of 1958, 10. is the R.M.S.
Monarch of Bermuda of 1931, which was sold to
become the humble S.S.
New Australia and finally the Q.S.S. Arkadia, 11. the
amazing R.M.S.
Aquitania of 1914, and she was such an amazing ship and I know you will enjoy
this spectacular feature as well - but she is followed by - 12. The magnificent 31,938 GRT Cunard Liner, R.M.S. Mauretania
(1) of 1906 she was considered one of the most elegant liners of her
time and this feature will cover her in detail with countless photographs as
well as excellent Deck Plans, etc. 13. M.V.
Britannic (3) of 1930, 14. and her
sister-ship the M.V. Georgic (2) of 1932, two brilliant Motor ships.
By his friend &
editor.
However, featured below is the spectacular …
R.M.S. Aquitania
The
elegant liner R.M.S. Aquitania is seen arriving at
Plans for the new liner commenced for the
“Cunard Steamship Company Ltd” commenced early in 1910, and her
design was undertaken by Cunard’s Naval Architect ‘
R.M.S. Aquitania at sea
But what made the “
The First Class Lounge, also known as the “Palladian Lounge” was the signature venue of the ship and was located on Promenade (A) Deck and it featured a rich Baroque-style of decoration. Whilst on a lower deck of the ship, was the very first ever Swimming Pool to be placed on a Cunard liner.
The Palladian Lounge
Whilst the “Smoking Room” was entirely traditional and was called the “Carolean Smoking Room”, its décor was staggering with fine art and classic style furnishings.
A part of the Smoking Room
However Second Class also had fine Lounges, in fact they were superior to some first class venues on other liners!
Second
Class Lounge complete with a centre ceiling well (out of sight) featuring a
fine class dome
This is the superb Second Class Smoking Room that is also known as the “Kensington Palace Smoking Room”
Third Class had every facility, several Lounges, Drawing room, Smoking Room, a Library and a Dining Room.
A most pleasant Third Class Lounge
This fine ship had an excellent 36 year career, which saw her serve in two World Wars, as an Armed Merchant Cruiser, a Hospital Ship and finally a Troopship. This R.M.S. Aquitania feature is three pages and has countless high quality photographs, it is one of the most detailed studies of a ship I have online! Thus enjoy it!
Enter the RMS Aquitania Feature
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Mr.
Over
the years
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Water Liners sailing to the distant shores.
I watched them come, I watched them go and I watched them
die.”
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In addition he was founder of “Save
the Classic Liners Campaign" in 1990.
Photographs on ssmaritime and associate pages are by; the author or from the author’s private collection. In addition there are some images that have been provided by Shipping Companies and private photographers or collectors. Credit is given to all contributors. However, there are some photographs provided to me without details regarding the photographer/owner concerned, so sorry if this is the case.
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