Ocean Liners: Dinosaurs of the Sea


	Titanic, Lusitania, Queen Mary, Normandie, Queen Elizabeth, Andrea Doria, Rotterdam, France, United States, etc. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
	I have ignored this site (of mine) and others like it for many years. That will be my next web project -- promise! In the meantime here is an interim version with some old links. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
	OCEAN LINERS: Yes, just in case you are wondering why there is a link to this page from the Castles and Antiquities site, I consider them Ancient Monuments, to the extent that they survive in some form or another -- not these stupid floating Holiday Inns that pass for ships these days. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Queen Elizabeth in Southampton,
taken by me in 1966

LINKS

QUEEN MARY My own page, but it links to others (great ship before they turned it into a hotel)
TITANIC (1) Technical stuff, really nice graphics (lesson in web page design)
TITANIC (2) RMS Titanic: Her passengers and crew -- a good Titanic home page.
[Note: An Australian Titanic Web Page -- "http://www.netpacific.com.au/titanic/" -- which I liked a lot, has disappeared; the dreaded "URL not found" message, not uncommon these days, appears; does anybody know if it moved? -- and now it seems that this site, TITANIC (2) has disappeared too...]
NORMANDIE Maybe not the poshest ship ever built but surely the most stylish looking, with those raked funnels and all; never really had a chance, though, with WW-II coming and resulting in a humiliating end for this great ship.
AND THE REST (Lusitania, etc.) A Fantastic Source for devotees on this subject.
[Note: This was a great site, but it has disappeared (checked Feb 98). Does anybody know where it moved to, or is it now just defunct? If you know, please tell me by e-mail.]
On the other hand, here is an excellent web site of a similar nature: Uncommon Journeys, which has some great stuff about the old liners.
Here is another one that is quite good: MONSTERS OF THE SEA (not sure I like that title, but I used the word dinosaur so who can complain!) -- well researched and lots of archival material

The last survivor of Titanic, Edith Haisman, died at the age of 100 on January 22, 1997.

By the way, if anybody out there in the Internet happens to read this page, and has something to say about the Queen Mary, the Queen Elizabeth (1), the Empress of Britain (out of Montreal up the St. Laurence to Liverpool, wow), the Nieuw Amsterdam, the France (now Norway) or the United States (actually forget which one of the last two I crossed on although I visited both to meet or see people off), the Rotterdam, or the Zuidercruis (a converted troop ship run by the Holland America Line in the early 1950s), please let me know. Those were the days, when I'd take ship across the Atlantic every summer for the school or college vacation break, and it was cheap too with student discounts....[Queen Mary was absolutely the best ship I was ever on, although my last trip, March 1967/8? just before she was decommissioned, was a horror show of stormy weather.] Please e-mail me with any memories you would like to share, especially if you are Gwen Nolan or Diana Moscowitz, who are just as old as I am now, but we had some good times back then.

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