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Authors: Richard Davenport-Hines
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VOYAGERS OF THE TITANIC
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When Harland & Wolff agreed in the 1950s to build the liner
Canberra
for P&O Cruises on a fixed-price contract, it took a certain step toward insolvency. The shipyard survived on British government subsidies from the 1960s until 1977, when it was nationalized and incorporated into British Shipbuilders; it was privatized in 1989.
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Harper’s Pekingese, the Rothschilds’ Pomeranian, and the Hays’s Pomeranian all escaped in lifeboats.
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“Italian” was the epithet applied promiscuously to any man who was thought to have lacked pluck or self-control. Charlotte Collyer described the man from third class beaten up by men from second class as “Italian,” although he is unlikely to have been a subject of King Victor Emmanuel III. The Italian ambassador in Washington protested about the pejorative inaccuracy with which his nationality was bandied about.