From the front flap: "Here are stories of all the great liners which have carried travellers and freight across the world, stories of birth in the great shipyards of the North, of life on the trade routes of the world, and death as time makes the favourite of one age the cast-off of the next, or war brings a sudden and frightful end to a majestic queen of the seas." Navy cloth w/gilt lettering to spine, 246 pages (including index), illustrated w/32 pages of half-tone photographs. Gently bumped corners, light wear to corners/spine ends, tanned/lightly foxed edges, previous owner's signature to front end paper, light foxing to half-title, in edgeworn dust jacket with pieces from edges, chipping to corners/spine ends.

R.M. Wilson, ship, ships, ocean commerce, Mauretania, Olympic, Majestic, Aquitania, Queen Mary, Queen Elizabeth, ocean liners, NOISBN