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This print is accompanied by a copy of some of the book's inside pages
Correct drinking is an art
Courtesy Lou Greenstein Collection
a troop transporter and a coastguard quarter boat until Eldridge Fergus
Figureheads, Cunard RMS Berengaria, 1929 Bala Cynwyd They were horrified and theyThis illustration, by famed naval artist William McDowell (1888 1950), shows figureheads from some of the more prominent ships throughout history, from a Roman attack boat, all the way to the Cutty Sark, which currently sits next to the river Thames at Greenwich, and operates as a tourist attraction. In its day, the RMS Berengaria was the pride of the Cunard fleet and sailed from the English port of Southampton to New York. It was known as the happy