georgic plan cabin class britains (1 resultados)

4to. 8 x 9 in. which opens into [20 pp (unpaginated).] oblong folio 16 x 9 in., colour deck plans throughout, photo illustrations of amenities, centerfold illustration of M.V. Georgic measuring 32 x 9 in., self-printed illustrated softcovers, w/ Art Deco cover art by Frederick J. Hoertz (1889-1978) w/ original Cunard White Star Ltd. mailing envelope addressed to Mr. Harold Berson, postmarked 1939, NF/VG copy, from the library of Berson (1926-1986), avid world traveler, and noted children's book illustrator until his death. Revised edition of this rare original deck plans brochure for the M.V. Georgic (1931) revised after the original printing in 1937. Launched in Nov., 1931, the M.V. Georgic was designed to be similar but larger than her sister ship the M.V. Britannic, and accommodated a total of 1542 passengers, 479 in the super glamorous Cabin Class, with the rest divided between Tourist Class and third Class. Her route was sailing from Liverpool, via Cobh and Boston to New York, and would remain on that route until early 1940. After the breakout of World War II, she evacuated British troops from the failed Norwegian Campaign, assisted in the June, 1940 evacuation from France, followed by her sinking by the Nazi's in 1941, and then salvage, refloating, and rebuilt as a troop ship, and would continue service until decommissioned, and broken in 1956. No copies located in Worldcat (Wolfsonian contains a "temporary issue" cruise plan, & post-WWII deckplans).