Cunard : 150 glorious years / John Maxtone-Graham.
By: Maxtone-Graham, John [author.]
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BookPublisher: Newton Abbot : David & Charles, 1989Description: 128 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 x 28 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0715393448 (hardback).Subject(s): Cunard Steamship Company, ltd. -- HistoryDDC classification: 387.506541 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| General Lending | MTU National Maritime College of Ireland Library Lending | 387.506541 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00180809 |
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Bibliography: (page 126) and index.
What would Sir Samuel have said? -- Booking and boarding the Cunard -- How many times around is a mile? -- Cunard evenings at sea -- Queen Mary -- A steward's life -- Queen Elizabeth -- Franconia's world cruise, 1937 -- The first troops with Cunard -- Sesquicentennial -- A Cunard sesquicentenary sampler.
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John Kurtz Maxtone-Graham (August 2, 1929 - July 6, 2015) was a speaker and writer on ocean liners and maritime history. He was born in Orange, New Jersey and raised in Hoboken, New Jersey. He graduated from Brown University in 1951. He served in the United States Marine Corps during the Korean War and had once worked unsuccessfully as a Broadway stage manager. In 1972, he wrote his first book on ocean liners, The Only Way to Cross, to be followed by numerous other books for small publishing houses. France/Norway, was published in 2010, and in March 2012 he wrote and published Titanic Tragedy.He is the father of writer Ian Maxtone-Graham. John Maxtone-Graham died from respiratory failure in Manhattan on July 6, 2015, aged 85.
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