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Braynard, Frank O & William H. Miller. Fifty Famous Liners. 1st printing. Cambridge: Patrick Stephens. 1982. hardcover. isbn: 0850595045. scarcity: fairly common.
Portraits of the 50 most famous ocean liners ever to sail the seas. Each ship rates about five pages of description, which includes a short, but detailed history. A table at the end of each listing also displays each ship’s technical specifications, when built and when lost/scrapped. The ships are listed chronologically, beginning with the Britannia in 1839 and ending with the Queen Elizabeth II from 1969. There are about five pages each on Olympic and Titanic.
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