Floating palaces, elegant fashion… and cows falling through the ceiling! The pleasures and pitfalls of the golden age of ocean liners

Fascinating exhibition opens at V&A Museum in London

How does the modern ship compare with its predecessor?

Driving along the sprawling freeways past vast developments towards the towering ocean-front hotels of Fort Lauderdale, it’s hard to imagine that, a little over a century ago, this was a desolate area full of swamps, […]

How, on QM2, I’ll be travelling in the wake of my grandmother’s voyage on Queen Mary

Dave Monk traces his grandmother’s voyage 61 years ago on Queen Mary as he prepares to do the same transatlantic trip on QM2

Papers used to be printed on the voyage

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Floating palaces, elegant fashion… and cows falling through the ceiling! The pleasures and pitfalls of the golden age of ocean liners

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How, on QM2, I’ll be travelling in the wake of my grandmother’s voyage on Queen Mary

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Historic rare newspapers from transatlantic liners are published online

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