Coming Soon:

The new book that this website is based on!

This new book will showcase the histories of the great maritime "trio of trios":

	Cunard Line's Lusitania, Mauretania and Aquitania
	White Star's infamous trio Olympic, Titanic and Britannic
	& Hamburg-Amerika's Imperator, Vaterland and Leviathan

Never before in history had the great steamship lines of the Atlantic created trios of sister ships - each set successively slated to be the largest or the fastest ships in the world as they entered service - to serve in a weekly service connecting Europe and America. Nor would this great competition be repeated in the same form; later ships would prove larger or faster, but the strange combination of optimism and circumstance would never again produce three sets of cutting-edge liners like these nine great ships.

For their groundbreaking technology, unprecedented size, luxury and speed, for the short-lived era that produced them, and for the remarkable roles that they would play in making history, these ships have been chosen to be the focus of this book.

An idea of the the volume's scope can be seen through a perusal of this website. The volume will be packed with details on these ships, including an in-depth look at the oft-forgotten Imperator-class trio from Hamburg-Amerika. There will also be rare and previously unpublished photographs of the ships.

The book should be available through Cafe Press for order during February/March 2005. Check back here for updates regularly! In the meantime, the Atlantic Liners gift and novelty store is open.

If you have photographic or reference material on these ships that you would like to contribute to the publication, please make sure to contact me as soon as possible to make sure there is enough time to include them in its pages.

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