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Szczecińskie
czterofajkowce - Stettin's Four-Stackers
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This book is about ships,
not people. Five unique ships that, one
may wonder why, have been forgotten for
a long time. Perhaps because they were
ahead of their time.
Built at the turn of the
19th and 20th centuries in Stettin, they
were the greatest and fastest liners in
the world at the time. The designers won
fame and respect. Their shipowners reaped
recordbreaking profits, while the captains
and officers became overnight heroes.
They could be recognized
by their four slightly tilted funnels,
the symbol so important to passengers
that the British modified the design of
the famous "Titanic" by adding
the fourth dummy funnel! Alas, as it happens,
the magic of Stettin's four-funnelled
transatlantic liners went out as suddenly
as it had appeared a decade earlier. The
ships were just forgotten...
Isn't it time to revive
the memory of those ships?
The first ship was launched in 1897. It
was "Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse"
(for NDL). Next in 1900 - "Deutschland"
(HAPAG). Next ones: 1901 "Kronprinz
Wilhelm" (NDL), 1902 "Kaiser Wilhelm
II" (NDL), and "Kronprinzessin
Cecylie" in 1906 (NDL).
225 x 165 mm, 80 pages,
english text
ISBN: 83-921866-8-0
price in Poland 30.00 pln (8 EUR)
Publisher and Distributor:
Wydawnictwo Lega, ul.Zakopiańska 10, 71-451
Szczecin,
tel. i fax (+4891) 454 20 55, e-mail:
lega@hot.pl
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