ILLUSTRATIONS

In Colour
“Aquitania” leading the transports[Frontispiece]
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“Aquitania” escorted by destroyers[4]
“Mauretania” escorted by destroyers[12]
Torpedoing of the “Ivernia”[28]
“Carmania” sinking “Cap Trafalgar”[36]
Torpedoing of the “Ausonia”[44]
Torpedoing of the “Lusitania”[52]
“Phrygia” sinking a submarine[60]
Torpedoing of the “Thracia”[68]
“Valeria” sinking a submarine[84]
Torpedoing of the “Volodia”[92]
“Aquitania” as hospital ship[108]
“Campania” as seaplane ship[124]
In Monochrome
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“Aquitania” at Southampton with Canadian troops[2]
Embarkation[6]
Transport in Southampton Water[6]
Canadian troops on “Caronia” being addressed by their commander[8]
The “Campania” sinking in the Firth of Forth[10]
The “Carmania” starboard forward guns[14]
Rope protection on “Carmania” against shell splinters[14]
Life on a transport (i): Kit inspection[16]
Life on a transport (ii): Rifle drill[16]
The “Carmania” ready for action[18]
South African infantry on board the “Laconia”[22]
The “Caronia” leaving Durban[24]
H.M.S. “Mersey” alongside the “Laconia” off the Rufigi River[26]
The “Carmania” approaching Trinidad[30]
One of the “Carmania’s” guns[30]
“Abandon Ship” drill at sea[32]
After the fight[32]
Chart-house and bridge of the “Carmania” after the fight[34]
The “Laconia” at Durban[38]
Final of the S.A.I. heavyweight championship on the “Laconia”[38]
The Nelson Plate presented to the “Carmania”[40]
Crew leaving the “Franconia” after she was torpedoed[42]
Scene on board after the torpedoing of the “Ivernia” (i)[46]
Scene on board after the torpedoing of the “Ivernia” (ii)[48]
The torpedoing of the “Ivernia”: Survivors afloat on raft[50]
The torpedoing of the “Ivernia”: Survivors being taken in one of the boats[54]
The “Lusitania”[56]
The “Mauretania” as a hospital ship off Naples Harbour[58]
The “Alaunia” as an emergency hospital ship[62]
The “Lusitania” passing the Old Head of Kinsale[64]
The “white wake” that stretched to the beaches of Gallipoli[66]
Officers, nurses and R.A.M.C. orderlies of H.M.H.S. “Aquitania”[70]
“Homeward Bound.”[70]
The sun-cure[72]
The “Franconia” passing through the Suez Canal[72]
American troops never forgot the “Lusitania”[74]
In the Spring of 1918 the “Mauretania” brought 33,000 American soldiers to Europe[78]
The “Aquitania’s” stage[80]
The “Saxonia,” camouflaged, leaving New York with American troops for Europe[80]
Welcoming the first contingent of returning American troops, New York, December 1918[82]
The “Mauretania” arriving at New York, December 1918[82]
Boat drill on a Cunard hospital ship[86]
The “Aquitania’s” garden lounge as hospital ward[88]
The “Aurania” ashore after being torpedoed[90]
The “Ivernia” settling down[90]
The “Ivernia” survivors arriving in port[94]
Troops landing from the “Mauretania”[94]
The “Dwinsk” settling down after being torpedoed[96]
Survivors from the “Dwinsk” after eight days in the lifeboat[96]
The “Mauretania” leaving Southampton[98]
“Father Neptune” cared little for the preying submarines[102]
An armed cruiser’s range finder[102]
The “Thracia” fast[104]
The “Aquitania” re-appears in the Mersey[106]
Officers of the torpedoed “Franconia”[110]
A Cunard crew buying war savings certificates[110]
One of the American howitzers, assembled at the Cunard works[112]
The “Aquitania’s” chapel[112]
Cunard national aeroplane factory[114]
Interior of the aeroplane factory (i)[118]
Interior of the aeroplane factory (ii)[118]
Interior of the aeroplane factory (iii)[120]
Russian refugees on the “Phrygia”[120]
One of the rooms in the Cunard shell works[122]
A Record of “striking” value[122]
A hospital ward in the lounge of the “Mauretania”[126]
The “Aquitania” lounge as orderly room[128]
Officers’ ward in the smoking room of the “Aquitania”[128]
Men’s ward in the lounge of the “Aquitania”[132]
The “Franconia” sinking[136]