Booklet titled "Famous Cunarders"

booklet

A promotional booklet titled "Famous Cunarders," with small black and white paintings of a number of ships and information about their size and tonnage. Undated, but based on the ships referenced, it was published around 1922 and no later than 1924. The cover has a sketch of a four-funneled ship and a quotation, "None but himself could be his parallel," which comes from Lewis Theobald's play "Double Falsehood." The booklet's text is about Cunard's history and its new role in the post-WWI period, and the subtext is largely about how the company was recovering from the devastating losses of WWI, when the LUSITANIA, CARPATHIA, and other ships were sunk or lost. Among the ships featured in this booklet, many were built in the years after WWI, including the SAMARIA, SCYTHIA, ALBANIA, TYRRHANIA (later renamed LANCASTRIA) and ANTONIA, and the BERENGARIA was a formerly German ship that Cunard acquired as reparations for its war losses.