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The Beauty of the Aquitania

by Barbara Clements

This montage presents Cunard’s RMS Aquitania in colored postcards, emphasizing her magnificent interiors. Britain’s largest ship at her debut in the spring of 1914, the “Ship Beautiful” was famous for her elegant architecture. She also had a long and distinguished career, being the only great liner to sail through both world wars and demobilizations before her retirement in 1950. Rostron commanded her twice in 1927 in relief of her regular master, Sir James Charles.

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About the Author

AuthorEric Clements is professor of history at Southeast Missouri State University. The Atlantic liners were his earliest historical interest, an interest that led him to serve an enlistment in the U.S. Coast Guard and to write Captain of the Carpathia. His unpublished research projects include writing a history of the Second World War-era, U.S. Coast Guard cutter Mohawk for his master's thesis and two vessel histories for the "Historic American Engineering Record."

 

He is also the author of After the Boom in Tombstone and Jerome, Arizona: Decline in Western Resource Towns (University of Nevada Press, 2003, reissued 2014), and of numerous articles and book reviews about the history and historic preservation of the American West.

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