In Colour |
“Aquitania” leading the transports | Frontispiece |
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“Aquitania” escorted by destroyers | 4 |
“Mauretania” escorted by destroyers | 12 |
Torpedoing of the “Ivernia” | 28 |
“Carmania” sinking “Cap Trafalgar” | 36 |
Torpedoing of the “Ausonia” | 44 |
Torpedoing of the “Lusitania” | 52 |
“Phrygia” sinking a submarine | 60 |
Torpedoing of the “Thracia” | 68 |
“Valeria” sinking a submarine | 84 |
Torpedoing of the “Volodia” | 92 |
“Aquitania” as hospital ship | 108 |
“Campania” as seaplane ship | 124 |
In Monochrome |
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“Aquitania” at Southampton with Canadian troops | 2 |
Embarkation | 6 |
Transport in Southampton Water | 6 |
Canadian troops on “Caronia” being addressed by their commander | 8 |
The “Campania” sinking in the Firth of Forth | 10 |
The “Carmania” starboard forward guns | 14 |
Rope protection on “Carmania” against shell splinters | 14 |
Life on a transport (i): Kit inspection | 16 |
Life on a transport (ii): Rifle drill | 16 |
The “Carmania” ready for action | 18 |
South African infantry on board the “Laconia” | 22 |
The “Caronia” leaving Durban | 24 |
H.M.S. “Mersey” alongside the “Laconia” off the Rufigi River | 26 |
The “Carmania” approaching Trinidad | 30 |
One of the “Carmania’s” guns | 30 |
“Abandon Ship” drill at sea | 32 |
After the fight | 32 |
Chart-house and bridge of the “Carmania” after the fight | 34 |
The “Laconia” at Durban | 38 |
Final of the S.A.I. heavyweight championship on the “Laconia” | 38 |
The Nelson Plate presented to the “Carmania” | 40 |
Crew leaving the “Franconia” after she was torpedoed | 42 |
Scene on board after the torpedoing of the “Ivernia” (i) | 46 |
Scene on board after the torpedoing of the “Ivernia” (ii) | 48 |
The torpedoing of the “Ivernia”: Survivors afloat on raft | 50 |
The torpedoing of the “Ivernia”: Survivors being taken in one of the boats | 54 |
The “Lusitania” | 56 |
The “Mauretania” as a hospital ship off Naples Harbour | 58 |
The “Alaunia” as an emergency hospital ship | 62 |
The “Lusitania” passing the Old Head of Kinsale | 64 |
The “white wake” that stretched to the beaches of Gallipoli | 66 |
Officers, nurses and R.A.M.C. orderlies of H.M.H.S. “Aquitania” | 70 |
“Homeward Bound.” | 70 |
The sun-cure | 72 |
The “Franconia” passing through the Suez Canal | 72 |
American troops never forgot the “Lusitania” | 74 |
In the Spring of 1918 the “Mauretania” brought 33,000 American soldiers to Europe | 78 |
The “Aquitania’s” stage | 80 |
The “Saxonia,” camouflaged, leaving New York with American troops for Europe | 80 |
Welcoming the first contingent of returning American troops, New York, December 1918 | 82 |
The “Mauretania” arriving at New York, December 1918 | 82 |
Boat drill on a Cunard hospital ship | 86 |
The “Aquitania’s” garden lounge as hospital ward | 88 |
The “Aurania” ashore after being torpedoed | 90 |
The “Ivernia” settling down | 90 |
The “Ivernia” survivors arriving in port | 94 |
Troops landing from the “Mauretania” | 94 |
The “Dwinsk” settling down after being torpedoed | 96 |
Survivors from the “Dwinsk” after eight days in the lifeboat | 96 |
The “Mauretania” leaving Southampton | 98 |
“Father Neptune” cared little for the preying submarines | 102 |
An armed cruiser’s range finder | 102 |
The “Thracia” fast | 104 |
The “Aquitania” re-appears in the Mersey | 106 |
Officers of the torpedoed “Franconia” | 110 |
A Cunard crew buying war savings certificates | 110 |
One of the American howitzers, assembled at the Cunard works | 112 |
The “Aquitania’s” chapel | 112 |
Cunard national aeroplane factory | 114 |
Interior of the aeroplane factory (i) | 118 |
Interior of the aeroplane factory (ii) | 118 |
Interior of the aeroplane factory (iii) | 120 |
Russian refugees on the “Phrygia” | 120 |
One of the rooms in the Cunard shell works | 122 |
A Record of “striking” value | 122 |
A hospital ward in the lounge of the “Mauretania” | 126 |
The “Aquitania” lounge as orderly room | 128 |
Officers’ ward in the smoking room of the “Aquitania” | 128 |
Men’s ward in the lounge of the “Aquitania” | 132 |
The “Franconia” sinking | 136 |