Traveling By Ship in 1900

[georged]

Cattle-car airliner to cross the Atlantic, or this?
The 21st century might be more efficient, but efficient doesn't always mean better.
(Whippersnappers: one day you will discover that the journey IS the destination.)
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[mcitinner1]

Good call George. :!:

 

[cigrmaster]

george, it wasn't long ago you could sit exactly like that in an airplane. I would prefer the boat though, weeks of drinking and smoking instead of hours, always a good thing.

 

[cobguy]

Now that's the way to travel ... great photo!

 

[jazz]

Great photo and I tend to agree with what you say.
I recently spent the best part of 23 hours on a plane from Australia to the UK. I can't help think that as a result of that period of discomfort I have spent the last week in bed with a severely painful back and leg. The doctor has given me so many drugs to cope with this that I feel like a dirty junkie. I don't see me being up and about anytime soon either.
Perhaps I am being harsh on the airlines but I feel I can confirm that the mode of transport demonstrated in that picture is a far better option. I won't say I was born in the wrong century but perhaps the wrong end of it.

 

[huntertrw]

Traveling by ship in 1912. The Smoking Lounge aboard the RMS Titanic:

 

[huntertrw]

Traveling by ship circa 1936. The Smoking Lounge aboard the RMS Queen Mary:

 

[huntertrw]

Traveling by ship circa 1940. The Smoking Lounge aboard the S.S. America:

 

[huntertrw]

Traveling by ship circa 1910. The First Class Smoking Room aboard the RMS Lusitania:

 

[averagegent]

Georged, I agree with you about the journey being the destination. Living in Britain, my parents have a house in Belgium and I was brought up, every year, travelling to the continent. Some of my best memories are of driving through the flat French countryside or the Swiss Alps. One year, perhaps after I've finished my degree, I'd like to take the Orient Express as far as it goes! *Dreamy Look* I love the journey...

 

[tbradsim1]

What a timely thread, reading a book called The Girl Who Came Home, 14 young Irish boys and girls leave to go to America and only one makes it, just started book, but their description of the ship is very interesting. The Titanic was not Holed but extreme cold weather made the wrought iron rivets brittle and when they scraped the iceberg they popped and water ran in between the plates. Ship was designed for 5 full compartments but it surpassed that. Only did one cruise, but my naval voyages with the U.S. navy was not as relaxed as the old gentleman in the picture. Fine picture.

 

[tuold]

My ancestors who came over from Sweden on the Mauritania in 1913 in steerage would have envied that guy!

 

[warren]

British Air, 1st Class against a week on a boat? Now, if it was the early 1900s that would be the only way to cross. Again, upper decks please. Even back then they put the smokers out of sight and out of mind. Years ahead of their time I suppose. ::

 

[fnord]

What a fabulous picture, George!
Can anybody with sharper eyes make out his bottle of choice?
I love the drink flushed cheeks and air of repose. What a way to travel.
Fnord

 

[huntertrw]

fnord:
I believe that the bottle is one of Rémy Martin cognac.

 

[jvnshr]

Can anybody with sharper eyes make out his bottle of choice?

Here is what I found

In this image an elderly passenger reclines on a deckchair with a pipe, a water decanter and a bottle of malt whiskey labelled: 'W. Lumsden & Co, Aberdeen'. The photograph was taken on an unknown passenger ship, and is part of the McKilliam family collection. The collection includes material from several McKilliam family members, but the majority of the collection relates to Captain Robert Basil Vincent McKilliam's working life as an apprentice, a mate, and then captain - much of which was with the Aberdeen White Star line.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

Since only a small percentage of people would have been able to travel in such luxury, I would be down in the storage holds with the riff-raff, playing dice for potatoes and fresh crickets to eat on the voyage.

 

[aldecaker]

^ Yep. But for those who could afford it, what a way to go, huh?

 

[tbradsim1]

Forgot to add, he must of been an experienced mariner by turning his chair facing fore and aft you ride the waves better.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

Ahhh, Brad's post reminds me of where I would really be... laying in a puddle of my own vomit in the cargo hold while people play dice for my belongings. ::