OT: Ocean Liner Postcards

Aethelred

I know this is way off topic, but I believe a few members might find it interesting. I have started a small collection of postcards that show trans-Atlantic ocean liners that were built from about 1900-1920 and I thought I'd share the gallery. If you find this boring, I'm sorry!

Ocean Liner Gallery

Refrema

I find them very interesting. A brief look into a different way to travel.

The information about each ship makes them more interesting.

Bob

Aethelred

Thanks!

1960NYGiants

Nice bit of history. I like them.

Gene

coinkat

very neat... but it is sad that so many were sold for scrap

Aethelred

<< <i>very neat... but it is sad that so many were sold for scrap >>



I think so too, wouldn't it be neat to be able to go and see the Mauritania or the Olympic? I guess 45,000 tons of steel was just worth too much money to not scrap.

coinmickey

Very nice!! Very interesting stuff.

But it er, makes me wonder- are there any such postcards for Titanic? Or was she not in public view long enough for such items to have been made??

Edited for poor use of the phrase "begs the question"...

NJMark1

Interesting field of collecting. As if I need another hobby!

Mark

shirohniichan

Very cool. So far I have only collected postcards of ships I know my great-grandparents used to come to the US and to go back to Japan.

0john0

<< <i>But it begs an obvious question- are there any such postcards for Titanic? >>



Actually, that isn't begging the question at all. Begging the question is what one does in an argument when one assumes what one claims to be proving.
What you might mean to say is "it makes me wonder."

Aethelred

<< <i>But it er, makes me wonder- are there any such postcards for Titanic? Or was she not in public view long enough for such items to have been made?? >>



There are, but they are expensive (for a postcard at least), Perhaps $500-1500 for a card that was published before Titanic sank.

0john0

Shipcoin

I liked it -very cool! I think, I have at least few of these liners on some ogf my coins

BTW, ocasionally I saw recently some postcards of that sort in my local coin dealer's Ebay shop:

Ships on postcards

Aethelred

Thank you Shipcoin. Neat cards on the page you linked to, but not from the period I am interested in.

Sylvestius

Ha ships! Hmm i like ships from the same period too.

I was always a fan of the White Star Line. I was kinda sat there waiting for the Olympic to put in an appearance! (Since she's my favourite ship!)


Don't you find it strange that out of the three Olympic Class sisters; Britannic, Titanic and Olympic, the most successful one and the only one not to be 'lost' is the only one that no longer exists?

Mind you that goes for the Cunarders Mauretania and Lusitania as well.

rhound1977

Neat collection, I find the early transatlantic oceanliners really interesting, I took a tour of the Queen Mary in Long Beach a number of years ago...

Sylvestius

Actually Æthelred there's an hotel in England somewhere where alot of ex-RMS Olympic internal decor was saved and i think the hotel's bar was actually fitted out so it looked like it was part of the Olympic.


Search on some Titanic sites and you'll see it mentionned somewhere.