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77th Boys on AQUITANIA (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

AQUITANIA ready to launch (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

  • Nathan Adams said:
    Cunard liner made in Scotland. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Aquitania
  • swanq said:
    More photos of her (including under construction) from Flickr Commons: www.flickr.com/search/commons/?w=all&q=aquitania&...
  • The Library of Congress said:
    captainslack and swanq: Thanks for the additional information on the Aquitania. We'll add more details to the source data and then reload the description here in Flickr.
  • Knowledgeable Page said:
    This ship was best known as "Ship Beautiful." It served in both of the World Wars! Ship Beautiful served for 37 years and holds the record for the 2nd ship to serve the longest.

A Most Ingenious Device

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

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  • Niall McAuley said:
    Also, a girl's best friend! I have one holding up a fishbowl, a two-drawer version of that four-drawer one in the foreground.
  • ClickKen04 said:
    My Mum had one of these up to ten years ago, my own kids loved playing with it when they were toddlers in the 80's. These can go for a nice little sum depending on their condition. Nice shot Carol.
  • Swordscookie said:
    My late mother had one just like the one in the foreground. It was also a very ingenious device. The machine tilted on hinges, you lifted the table it sat on out of the way, again on hinges, the machine folded down below the level of the table and the whole thing closed up so that you had a neat table/worktop with a fancy singer stand beneath. I remember rooting through drawers like those and finding bobbins and reels and being fascinated by the movement of the bobbin underneath the baseplate!
  • Gerry Ward said:
    The factory in the poster is of the Kilbowie Road, Clydebank factory, with its distinctive clock tower.
  • Gerry Ward said:
    The Russian poster "Компания Зингеръ Швейная машиъі" means 'The Singer Sewing Machine Company".

Giant ships in hospital---transatlantic liners in dry dock having their sides scraped. (LOC)

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  • Lú_ said:
    Strange that it doesn't say what ship this is.
  • Rick Hamell said:
    Zooming in on the picture it says Carmania. Possibly the RMS Carmania en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Carmania_(1905) ?
  • Stefano said:
    It says it in the tags..... Carmania....
  • Elijah said:
    Just because it is in the tags now does not mean it was when Lú posted. Anyone can add tags to these images. The Carrnania tag was added by Pixel Wrangler, but I don't know when. (Tags show authorship, but no dates, in API.) -- Seen on your photo stream. (?)
  • lornesett said:
    Carmania belonged to the Cunard Line. She entered service in 1905 along with her near-identical sister Caronia. Of the two, Carmania was equipped with turbines whilst Caronia had the standard engines, an experiment designed to determine how the upcoming Lusitania and Mauretania would be engined. Carmania was the faster ship. The experiment was a success and the new liners received turbine engines. Carmania served as an Armed Merchant Cruiser in World War 1 and has the distinction of being the only liner to engage and sink another liner named Cap Trafalgar in a battle of Trinidad in September 1914.