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Look at the picture and feel the power of a great ship at speed. What a feat of engineering and ship building know how.

Nice picture and congratz for Explore! Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums.

My grand father came from the Tyne and went South to find work and got a job on this ship as a waiter. He was chosen over the mass of men chasing the work in those days because he could play the cornet (he was in the Salvation Army). So he was a waiter and also played in the ships band. His favourite hymn was, "My father is rich in houses and land"

Norman - Eastbourne Your dad would I am sure have had some interesting tales to tell, he sound to be an interesting chap.

Interestingly, my Grandfather's home in Southampton, was flattened by German bombing during WW2. (My mother worked in a shadow Spitfire factory). They were rehoused in Wimborne some 30 miles away and my mother went to work in the local electricity showroom where she met my father and later married in Wimborne Minster.

According to Wikipedia, "[h]ostilities in World War I greatly damaged the city. German bombardment and a subsequent fire in 1914 did severe damage to the cathedral. The ruined cathedral became one of the central images of anti-German propaganda produced in France during the war, which presented it ... as evidence that German aggression targeted cultural landmarks of European civilization." I must also commend the accuracy of the German gunner who managed to his such a small target.

Agence Meurisse original photo on Gallica site, with caption: Une cheminée d'une usine de Reims traversée par un obus Pub. Date 1914 gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b9042261d

artolog: Thanks for providing us with the source and date for this photograph. We'll include this information next time we update the description.

Again with the quotation marks...

I assume this ship www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?153501 and not the one which sank in the Great Lakes in the 50s. Or were they one and the same?

yes this is the one on wrecksite

This one sank off the coast of Africa under a different name and flag.
See notes under:
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which describe the threats being made by Germany in February, 1915, which may be the reason for the quotation marks.