Every boy's book of railways and steamships (1911)
Protheroe, Ernest · London : Religious Tract Society · leaf 381
Mauretania and Lusitania ; and agiant German liner was already under construction. The reader may wonder why some of the greatshipping companies trading to other parts of theworld do not build such huge liners as are seen onthe Atlantic ferry. The size of the vessel is reallydetermined by the trade… … PLATE XLII. 1. WHITE STAR S.S. LAURENriC. 2. FIRST-CLASS STATEROOM. THE ATLANTIC FERRY 285 can only enter or leave Liverpool during twelvehours out of ttie twenty-four ; and as it is absolutelycertain that the future of the New York trade lieswith the forty or fifty thousand-ton vessels, theMersey…
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