The Ship of Dreams. Gareth Russell

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       CONTENTS

       Cover

       Title Page

       Copyright

       Praise

       Dedication

       Epigraph

       Dramatis Personae

       Author’s Note

      1. The Lords Act

2. The Sash My Father Wore

3. Southampton

4. A Contest of Sea Giants

5. A Safe Harbour for Ships

       6. The Lucky Holdup

       7. A Decent Wee Man

       8. A Kind of Hieroglyphic World

       9. Its Own Appointed Limits Keep

       10. Two More Boilers

       11. A Thousand Uneasy Sparks of Light

       12. Going Up to See the Fun

       13. Music in the First-Class Lounge

       14. Vox faucibus haesit

       15. Be British

       16. Over the Top Together

       17. The Awful Spectacle

       18. Grip Fast

       19. Where’s Daddy?

       20. Extend Heartfelt Sympathy to All

       21. The Spinner of the Years

       Picture Section

       Footnotes

       Notes

       Glossary

       Bibliography

       Index

       Acknowledgements

       About the Author

By the Same Author

       About the Publisher

       DRAMATIS PERSONAE

      THE COUNTESS OF ROTHES

      LUCY-NOËLLE-MARTHA LESLIE, Countess of Rothes

      NORMAN LESLIE, 19TH EARL OF ROTHES, her husband

      MALCOLM, VISCOUNT LESLIE, their eldest son, later 20th Earl of Rothes

      THE HONOURABLE JOHN LESLIE, their youngest son

      GLADYS CHERRY, the Earl’s cousin and the Countess’s travelling companion

      CLEMENTINA and THOMAS DYER-EDWARDES, the Countess’s parents

      ROBERTA (‘CISSY’) MAIONI, the Countess’s lady’s maid

      THOMAS ANDREWS

      THOMAS ANDREWS, Managing Director of the Harland and Wolff shipyard

      HELEN ANDREWS, his wife

      ELIZABETH ANDREWS, their daughter

      WILLIAM, 1ST LORD PIRRIE, Thomas’s uncle, Chairman of Harland and Wolff

      THE STRAUSES

      IDA STRAUS, a philanthropist

      ISIDOR STRAUS, Ida’s husband, a former congressman for New York and co-owner of Macy’s department store

      ELLEN BIRD, Ida’s lady’s maid

      JOHN FARTHING, Isidor’s valet

JESSE STRAUS CLARENCE STRAUS PERCY STRAUS SARA HESS MINNIE WEIL HERBERT STRAUS VIVIAN SCHEFTEL

Ida and Isidor’s children

      THE THAYERS

      JOHN BORLAND THAYER, Second Vice-President of the Pennsylvania Railroad

      MARIAN THAYER, his wife

      JOHN BORLAND THAYER III (‘JACK’), their eldest child

      MARGARET FLEMING, Marian’s lady’s maid

FREDERICK THAYER MARGARET THAYER (LATER TALBOTT) PAULINE THAYER (LATER DOLAN)

The Thayers’ younger children