Passenger Fares for Overseas Travel in the 19th and 20th ...

on 1820s and ‘30s North Atlantic sailing packets. The early steamships of the 1840s matched, and eventually undercut, such fares, but mainly competed by offering faster arrival on a more predictable schedule. In 1914, after being in the transatlantic passenger steamship travel business for nearly three quarters of a century, the pioneering Cunard ................
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