Picture History of American Passenger Ships - 2001

Front Cover, Picture History of American Passenger Ships by William H. Miller, Jr., 2001. GGA Image ID # 201d34dbd2

Publisher Description

Loving tribute to luxury liners documents more than 100 ships, including the Leviathan, the America, the Independence, the President Polk, and the United States. Detailed captions provide tonnage, speed, size, and passenger load information. Introduction. Preface by David Perry. Bibliography. Index. Approximately 200 photographs.

Back Cover, Picture History of American Passenger Ships by William H. Miller, Jr., 2001. GGA Image ID # 201d5ce9d1

From the Back Cover

Virtual floating palaces, in their heyday, ocean liners provided well-to-do passengers with a style of travel unmatched in glamor and elegance. Now noted maritime authority William H. Miller, Jr., author of numerous other best-selling picture histories of the world's great passenger fleets, has compiled a loving tribute to American ocean liners.

This authoritative volume contains approximately 200 black-and-white photographs—most never before published—documenting the majestic exteriors and stylish, impeccably maintained interiors of more than 100 ships, including the Leviathan, America's first superliner; the beautifully outfitted America, which blended luxury with a feeling of coziness; the Independence and the Constitution, with their two Hollywood-style swimming pools; the President Polk and the President Monroe, each with a wood-burning fireplace in the main lounge; and, finally, the magnificent United States, which "was well ahead in almost every way of every other passenger ship then afloat." Other luxury cruise ships presented in this book include the Argentina, the Lurline, the Celebration, and the Imagination.

Detailed captions provide a wealth of information on tonnage, speed, size, and passenger load. This comprehensive visual record—painstakingly printed on coated stock—will delight maritime historians and ocean-liner enthusiasts everywhere.

Original Dover (2001) publication. Foreword. Introduction by David Perry. Bibliography. Index. Approximately 200 photographs. 128pp. 8 7/8 x 11 3/4. Paperbound.

Contents

• Chapter 1: America's First Superliner: Leviathan
• Chapter 2: Acquisitions, Seizures, And Other Prizes Of War
• Chapter 3: Standard Classes
• Chapter 4: The Late Twenties: Big New Liners
• Chapter 5: Small Ships Of The Prewar Era
• Chapter 6: Expansion: Building Up The Fleet
• Chapter 7: New National Flagship: America
• Chapter 8: "Combo" Ships: Passengers And Cargo
• Chapter 9: Serving The Military During And After World War II
• Chapter 10: Modern American Luxury At Sea
• Bibliography
• Index Of Ships In Illustrations

Index of Ships in Illustrations

The different names the ships covered in this book have had during their careers at sea are generally mentioned in the text. Where relevant, these names are carried in alphabetical order in the following list.

1. Acadia
2. Acropolis
3. African Endeavor
4. African Enterprise
5. African Planet
6. Alaska
7. Alcoa Cavalier
8. Alcoa Corsair
9. Alcoa Cruiser
10. Aleutian
11. Algonquin
12. Alsatia
13. America (1905)
14. America (1939)
15. American Farmer
16. American Importer
17. American Legion
18. American Shipper
19. American Star
20. American Trader
21. Amerika (1905)
22. Ancon
23. Argentina
24. Aros a Star
25. Athinai
26. Atlantic
27. Australis
28. Bahama Star
29. Barrett
30. Bay State
31. Belgenland
32. Belgic
33. Berkshire
34. Bermuda Star
35. Blanche F. Sigman
36. Borinquen
37. Brahantia
38. Brasil (1958)
39. Brazil
40. Cabo de Homos
41. California
42. Canada Star
43. Cavalier
44. Celebration
45. City of Hamburg
46. City of Honolulu
47. City of San Francisco
48. Colombia
49. Constitution
50. Conte Biancamano
51. Cristóbal
52. Cristoforo Colombo
53. David C. Shanks
54. Del Mar
55. Delbrasil
56. Dixie
57. Eclipse
58. Edmund B. Alexander
59. Ellinis, 59 Emerald
60. Empire State
61. Europa
62. Evangeline
63. Excalibur
64. Exochorda
65. Finland
66. Flandre
67. Florida
68. Geiger
69. Gen. Alexander M. Patch
70. Gen. D. E. Aultman
71. Gen. Hugh J. Gaffey
72. Gen. J. C. Breckinridge
73. Gen. Maurice Rose
74. Gen. Simon B. Buckner
75. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant
76. Gen. W. M. Black
77. Gen. William O. Darby
78. Gen. William Weigel
79. George Clymer
80. George F. Elliott
81. George Washington
82. Great Northern
83. H.F. Alexander
84. Henry Lee
85. Hermitage
86. Homeric
87. Imagination
88. Independence
89. Inspiration
90. Iroquois
91. Italia
92. A. Mowinckel
93. John Ericsson
94. Joseph Hewes
95. Joseph T. Dickman
96. Kaiser Wilhelm II
97. Kiautschou
98. Koda
99. Kronprinzessin Cecilie
100. Kroonland
101. Kungsholm
102. Leviathan
103. Limburgia
104. Lombardia
105. Lone Star State
106. Lurline
107. Madawaska
108. Malolo
109. Malolo
110. Manhattan
111. Marianna VI
112. Marigold
113. Mariposa
114. Matsonia
115. Maua
116. Mauretania
117. Mazatldn
118. Mexico
119. Monterey
120. Monticello
121. Morro Castle
122. Mount Vernon
123. Mount Vernon
124. New Bahama Star
125. Norway
126. Oceanic Independence
127. Old North State
128. Oriente
129. Peninsular State
130. Pennsylvania
131. Portland
132. President Adams
133. President Cleveland
134. President Coolidge
135. President Harding
136. President Jackson
137. President Madison
138. President Pierce
139. President Polk
140. President Quezon
141. President Roosevelt
142. President Taft
143. President Van Buren
144. President Wilson
145. Princess Matoika
146. Puerto Rico
147. Pvt. Eiden H. Johnson
148. Pvt. William H. Thomas
149. Queen Elizabeth
150. Queen Frederica
151. Queen Mary
152. Regent Rainbow
153. Reliance
154. Republic
155. Resolute
156. Santa Elena
157. Santa Isabel
158. Santa Eucia
159. Santa Maria
160. Scznicz Pczu/cz (1958)
161. Santa Paula
162. Santa Rosa (1958)
163. Santa Rosa
164. Savannah
165. Scanyork
166. Schenectady
167. Sovereign of the Seas
168. Stanford White
169. Stevens
170. Surriento
171. Takasago Maru
172. Tarsus
173. Thomas H. Barry
174. U. S. Grant
175. United States
176. Uruguay
177. Vaterland
178. Veragua
179. Ville de Bruges
180. Ville de Eiege
181. Virginia
182. Vulcania
183. Wakefield
184. Washington
185. West Point
186. Westin World City
187. William P. Biddle
188. Zeilin

Library of Congress Catalog Listing

• LC Control No.: 00052379
• Type of Material: Book (Print, Microform, Electronic, etc.)
• Personal Name: Miller, William H., 1948-
• Main Title: Picture history of American passenger ships / William H. Miller, Jr.
• Portion of Title: American passenger ships
• Published/Created: Mineola, N.Y. : Dover Publications, 2001.
• Description: ix, 118 p. : ill.; 30 cm.
• ISBN: 0486409678 (pbk.)
• Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 116) and index.
• Subjects: Passenger ships --United States --Pictorial works.
• LC Classification: VM381 .M449823 2001
• Dewey Class No.: 387.5/42/0973 21
• Geographic Area Code: n-us---
• Quality Code: pc