White Star Line
and Cunard Line (on separate page)
S.S.
"Laurentic" |
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RMS
"Majestic" in the Southampton Floating Dock for routine
maintainence, 1924.
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White
Star Line tender alongside S.S. "Laurentic" at Cherbourg
May 1928. (This tender may possibly have been used to service RMS "Titanic's"
call there in April 1912).
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Foredeck, mid-Atlantic May 1928 |
Port After Deck looking foreward, mid-Atlantic, May 1928 |
Tourist Class passengers May 1928 |
Starboard After Deck looking foreward, mid-Atlantic, May 1928 |
Starboard After Deck looking foreward, mid-Atlantic, May 1928 |
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Stern Anchor Deck mid-Atlantic, May 1928 |
Port Side Boat Deck looking foreward, mid-Atlantic, May 1928. Note the lifeboats set up as they were originally planned to be on Titanic |
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The ship's "speedometer", the trailing log on the stern rail of "Laurentic", mid-Atlantic, May 1928 | ||
Below:
the long-lived "Georgic" which, on her charter voyage to
Melbourne under the
P and O Flag, was boarded by me from the Customs launch off Gellibrand Light, carrying the ships and crew mail. |
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"Georgic" Photographer unknown (Michael Byard collection) She was chartered by the Australian Government to carry migrants and, during my time there, was managed for one voyage by P and O Lines. (see my P and O Line page) |
"
Georgic" Built in Belfast by Harland and Wolff in 1931 and was the
last ship built for White Star Line and became part of the Cunard White
Star Line due to government insistance in 1934. Used as a troop ship she
was attacked by German bombers off the North African coast and badly damaged
but was driven ashore to stop her sinking. She was salvaged and towed
to Port Sudan, and later to Karachi. She eventually found her way back
to Belfast where she was completely overhauled and converted to a migrant
ship.
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