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Topic: Your Favorite Classic Liner

Terry
First Class Passenger
Member # 448

posted 04-27-2000 05:27 PM

There were many fantastic ocean liners built in the 1920s and the 1930s. Most of them, but not all, plied the North Atlantic. I wonder what your favourite is and why? For myself the 1931 EMPRESS OF BRITAIN was unmatchable with the 1935 NORMANDIE following on closly behind.

Terry

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Barryboat
First Class Passenger
Member # 33

posted 04-27-2000 06:48 PM

As much as I like the Normandie and would have absolutely loved to have been able to see her, I think I would have most enjoyed a crossing in the Mauretania. A coal burning steamship fascinates me. The Queen Mary falls within your time frame...My ultimate choice and favorite ship would have to be the Queen Mary.

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Rex
First Class Passenger
Member # 1113

posted 04-28-2000 08:57 AM

Terry, the EMPRESS OF BRITAIN happens to be one of my faves as well. There was a book published on her several years ago, when I was a poor undergrad student, but now I cannot find it. It had numerous photos of her, as well as copies of her original deck plans. What a shame Canadian Pacific was so short-sighted, and did not build a sister ship to run in tandem with her, or replace her with an adequate substitute after she was lost in WWII. I LOVE the pics of her Salle Jacques Cartier restaurant and Mayfair Lounge, as well as her huge stacks, and upright stance. And I can NEVER find anything, not even on the Web, about her or other CP ships, except for the EMPRESS OF IRELAND.

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Will
First Class Passenger
Member # 472

posted 04-28-2000 09:07 AM

My pickes would be:

The Normandie
The Europa
The Aquitania

[This message has been edited by Will (edited 04-28-2000).]

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Joe at PwC
First Class Passenger
Member # 225

posted 04-28-2000 01:23 PM

Gee, this is a tough one.

For various reasons, I don't have just one favorite ship, mostly because the ones I like best are all beautiful in their own ways. The order in which they appear is not necessarily the order of preference, although I'd probably have to go with the Olympic trio at the top because of their interiors and the counter stern thing.

1 - Olympic/Titanic/Britannic
2 - Normandie
3 - United States (exterior only)
4 - Mauretania/Lusitania
5 - Aquitania
6 - Queen Elizabeth
7 - Queen Mary

There's so many that were just so magnificent that I haven't even ranked here, like the Rex, the Imperator, I could go on and on.

[This message has been edited by Joe at PwC (edited 05-04-2000).]

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NAL
First Class Passenger
Member # 1102

posted 04-28-2000 04:38 PM

My favorites include:
Nieuw Amsterdam ['38]
Normandie
France ['62]
Leonardo da Vinci
Cristoforo Colombo
Rotterdam V
Queen Elizabeth ['38]
Kungsholm [66][as built]
Vistafjord [as built]

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kbozman
First Class Passenger
Member # 642

posted 04-28-2000 10:03 PM

My favorites would be:

1 Normandie, All around
2 Imperator, sheer mass and appointments
3 Aquitania, Graceful and well designed
4 Conti Di Savoia, Beautiful lines,Interior
5 White Star Trio,Timeless beauty/splendor
6 Isle De France, balanced design,a classic
7 France, what she used to be, not now.

Kbozman.

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Guest
First Class Passenger
Member # 1157

posted 04-29-2000 08:16 AM

This is hard... I have a lot of ships I like.

PRE WW1:

FAVORITE = Aquitania - graceful, well proportioned and proud looking, I prefer her when her 2nd bridge was built above the first one!

I ALSO LIKE; Olympic - Reliable and Beautiful. Mauretania I - Reliable and Beautiful (before she was painted white)

POST WW1:

FAVORITE (S) = Queens Mary and Elizabeth - Large, Luxurious, Proud, Graceful, revolutionary and their efforts in the war was amazing.

Aquitania - **as above**

I ALSO LIKE; Berengaria - Defiantly the best looking of the 3 H.A liners (Cunard got the best one) she was big, and proud and fitted into the Cunard Fleet well. Mauretania II - similar reasons to that of the Queens.

Today (year 2000)

FAVORITE = Queen Elizabeth 2 - I could fill this page with reasons why I like QE2, but I do think she is classic because that’s how she was designed. She is big, proud, and beautiful, modern yet retains that classic charm.

QE2 of cause is my favorite ship of all time.

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LizB
First Class Passenger
Member # 1243

posted 04-29-2000 07:55 PM

My selections would be the same as NAL's.

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Glencoe
First Class Passenger
Member # 1181

posted 05-03-2000 09:47 PM

Rex, I recently purchased the book you mention, at least I think it is the same book. You can order it online from www.chapters.ca. That is you could last year. That is also my favourite ship from that era.

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