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Archibald Hurd. A Merchant Fleet at War
A Merchant Fleet at War
Table of Contents
PREFACE
ILLUSTRATIONS
FOREWORD
A MERCHANT. FLEET AT WAR
CHAPTER I. Mobilisation
CHAPTER II. Combatant Cunarders
CHAPTER III. Carrying On
CHAPTER IV. The Ordeal of the Lusitania
CHAPTER V. The Toll of the Submarines
CHAPTER VI. Shore Work for the Services
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Archibald Hurd
Published by Good Press, 2021
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“Aquitania” at Southampton with Canadian troops
These were but tentative experiments, however, and the Transatlantic Steamship Service, as we see it to-day, did not really begin till the year 1838, when the steamers Sirius and Great Western sailed within a few days of each other from London and Bristol respectively. Both ships crossed without mishap, the Sirius in 17 days, and the Great Western in 15. In the same year, the Royal William and the Liverpool crossed from Liverpool to New York in 19 days and 16½ days respectively.
