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...steamer Nan-Shan in Typhoon-the reader, stuffed with sea lore, has been shanghaied aboard a ghostly voyage from the demanding past into the threatening future. Ardshiel has bicycles-for exercising on deck-but no ship pets, because. Mostert suggests, there is no crew continuity. (By contrast, the Aquitania, when scrapped in 1950, disgorged ship's cats all descended from a tabby who went aboard on the maiden voyage in 1914). Mostert mildly mourns the fact that nobody refers to a V.L.C.C. as "she," and sadly notes the loss of rake and sheer in modern tankers' lines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Stormy Petrol | 11/25/1974 | See Source »

Homebound aboard the liner Aquitania in 1926, a group of British industrialists traveling together decided to merge four struggling chemical firms into a new company called Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd. In a surprising departure from British formality, they scribbled out the new company's compact on a sheet of Cunard Line writing paper. Over the years since then I.C.I, has become Britain's Du Pont...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain: Imperial Tiger | 5/3/1963 | See Source »

Both Guy's place and his personal battle grew increasingly ambiguous. The Halberdiers teemed with weird Waugh characters-from one-eyed, ruthless Brigadier Ritchie-Hook through Trimmer, an ex-hairdresser on the Aquitania. to the knowledgeable ass, Apthorpe, whose portable jakes provides Waugh with an outlet for numerous excursions into scatology. Hapless Guy inadvertently kills him at the end with the gift of a bottle of whisky when Apthorpe was suffering from fever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Class War | 1/19/1962 | See Source »

...more unwilling warrior could have been found for Operation Popgun than Captain Trimmer, onetime ladies' hairdresser on the Aquitania. But the submarine lost its way, and the trembling Trimmer found himself leading the first Britons since Dunkirk back onto the French coast. Somehow Trimmer's sergeant blew up a rail line, while the press officer quoted tipsy encouragement to the captain. "For God's sake, come on," squeaked Trimmer from the small boat, as the sappers returned. "Be of good comfort, Master Trimmer, and play the man," urged the press officer. "We shall this day light such...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Knighthood Deflowered | 7/11/1955 | See Source »

Pressed into troopship service in World War I, she used her speed (23 knots) to zigzag alone through submarine-infested waters. She also performed yeoman service in World War II, carrying 384,586 servicemen to & from battle. Never once was the Aquitania, known as "Grannie," fired on. Between wars she averaged a trip a fortnight from Southampton to New York, carried some 700,000 passengers. Recently the old ship, still in her stripped-down war condition, has been carrying immigrants to Canada. Last week, tied up at the Southampton dock after 35 years' service, the Aquitania was retired. Said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sailor's Rest | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

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