Blue Riband

There is an atmosphere of tremendous celebration on board, with everyone positively overbrimming with hope that the Lusitania will take back the Blue Riband from Germany.

The Forgotten Garden Kate Morton 2009

There is an atmosphere of tremendous celebration on board, with everyone positively overbrimming with hope that the Lusitania will take back the Blue Riband from Germany.

The Forgotten Garden Kate Morton 2009

The Arizona was the fastest steamship then crossing the Atlantic, the holder of the Blue Riband, and the young aesthete did not much care for speed.

Oscar Wilde and the Dead Man’s Smile Gyles Brandreth 2009

The Arizona was the fastest steamship then crossing the Atlantic, the holder of the Blue Riband, and the young aesthete did not much care for speed.

Oscar Wilde and the Dead Man’s Smile Gyles Brandreth 2009

The Arizona was the fastest steamship then crossing the Atlantic, the holder of the Blue Riband, and the young aesthete did not much care for speed.

Oscar Wilde and the Dead Man’s Smile Gyles Brandreth 2009

There is an atmosphere of tremendous celebration on board, with everyone positively overbrimming with hope that the Lusitania will take back the Blue Riband from Germany.

The Forgotten Garden Kate Morton 2009

The Arizona was the fastest steamship then crossing the Atlantic, the holder of the Blue Riband, and the young aesthete did not much care for speed.

Oscar Wilde and the Dead Man’s Smile Gyles Brandreth 2009

The Arizona was the fastest steamship then crossing the Atlantic, the holder of the Blue Riband, and the young aesthete did not much care for speed.

Oscar Wilde and the Dead Man’s Smile Gyles Brandreth 2009

There is an atmosphere of tremendous celebration on board, with everyone positively overbrimming with hope that the Lusitania will take back the Blue Riband from Germany.

The Forgotten Garden Kate Morton 2009

This is where successive British governments have held their Blue Riband conferences through the years, where for instance they negotiated the independence of Nigeria and Zimbabwe (alright, that last is not a hopeful precedent).

Philip Jenkins: Looking For A Few Good Muslims 2008