. The British Isles : a guide for overseas visitors, taking in the American pilgrim shrines, the principal show-places and other famed for their history, beauty, or literary associations. Till. TIC • IllKKV. launched. This was the world-famous Olympic (46,459 tons), which entered the Southampton service onJune 14th, 1911. IKrIy in 1922 the Comjiany added the Majestic (56,551 tons) and the Homeric (34,356tons) to the fleet, and these two, in conjunction with theOlympic, now continue the weekly mail and passengerservice from Southampton and Cherbourg to New .Adriatic was then ret
. The British Isles : a guide for overseas visitors, taking in the American pilgrim shrines, the principal show-places and other famed for their history, beauty, or literary associations. Till. TIC • IllKKV. launched. This was the world-famous Olympic (46,459 tons), which entered the Southampton service onJune 14th, 1911. IKrIy in 1922 the Comjiany added the Majestic (56,551 tons) and the Homeric (34,356tons) to the fleet, and these two, in conjunction with theOlympic, now continue the weekly mail and passengerservice from Southampton and Cherbourg to New .Adriatic was then returned to her old sphere, andthe original big four now carry on a weekly schedulefrom Liverpool to New York via Oueenstown. What the journey from the Old World to the Newmeant in the early seventeenth century is not easily realisedin these modern times when the great White Star linerscome and go between them with the regularity of a trainservice. The ships of those days were, in point of tonnage,about one-si.\th the size of the White Star tenders whichnow meet the big mail steamers to disembark travellersat Cherbourg. These tiny vessels were not onh^ propelledentirely by sail, bu
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