superliners and, 50–51, 62, 69, 70, 73
ballrooms, 158
United States, 235, 248, 252, 270, 300, 303, 304, 308–9, 323, 360, 369
banks, banking, 21–22, 33, 60
Barbara Moran, 298
Barlow, Lester, 98
Barlow v. McIntyre, 98
Barnum and Bailey’s, 337
Barrett, Frederick, 44
bars, 158
of United States, 250, 252, 253, 265, 300, 357
Bartholdi, Frédéric-Auguste, 240
Barton, Leslie, 324
Baruch, Bernard, 180
Bates, James L., 199, 208–9
Design IV and, 195, 196, 203, 208–9, 210
Bates, Sir Percy, 150, 151, 213
Bath Iron Works, 146, 186
bathrooms, 258, 295, 329, 357
battleship-carrier-cruiser combination, 179
battleship-destroyer, Soviet request for, 147
battleships, 14, 18–19, 55, 107, 142, 225
Arizona, 55, 141
British, 18, 19, 20, 25, 27, 29, 107, 225
Bauer, Gustav, 209
Belgium, 11, 24
Benham-class destroyers, 146
Benny, Jack, 323
Berengaria, 97, 114, 115, 116, 122, 154, 273
Berle, Milton, 313
Bethesda Naval Hospital, 225
Bethlehem shipyard, 139
Big Ship, see Design 12201; United States, SS
Bishop Rock lighthouse, 136, 137, 307, 309, 318
Bismarck, 51, 69, 73, 81
Bismarck, Otto, 265, 274, 277, 293, 300–301
Black, Hugo, 155
Black, James, 312
Blewett, William, 221, 266–67, 268, 308
Blohm & Voss, 73–74
Blue Riband of the Atlantic, x, 6–7, 8, 11–12, 69, 88, 92, 119–23
Cunard and, 7n, 11–12, 26–27, 30–33, 39, 116, 120, 122, 149, 152, 206, 307
French Line and, 122
Germany and, 12, 28, 89, 116, 119, 120, 121, 123, 124, 209
Italy and, 135, 136, 137
Normandie and, 137, 152, 159
Queen Mary and, 149, 152, 159, 209
United States and, 148, 205–6, 225, 269, 281–82, 291, 294, 309–10, 313, 337, 346, 356
Board of Trade, British, 40, 41, 52
Boat Train, 310, 328
boiler rooms, boilers, 120, 138, 141, 144, 171, 203
of Leviathan, 81
of Olympic, 43–44
of United States, 231, 293
bombing, bombs, 60, 260
atomic, 198, 226
in World War II, 165, 167, 198, 204, 213, 225
Bon Voyage! (movie), 323
Boston, Mass., 8, 17, 18, 63, 174
Boston Navy Yard, 87, 124
bottle smashers, 182–83
Bowen, Harold, 141–46, 148
Brando, Marlon, 323, 327–28
Braynard, Frank, 178, 341
Bremen, 9, 97, 209
Bremen, 116, 120–26, 136, 140, 200
Nazism and, 153, 164
Bremerhaven, 164–65, 213, 348
Brennan, John, 288, 292
bridge, United States, 285, 293–94, 297, 299, 300, 312, 318, 323, 360, 369
Alessandrelli on, 305–6
conga line on, 309
Queen Mary’ s bridge compared to, 260
trials and, 264, 266, 267, 268, 271
Brinnin, John Malcolm, 120, 345, 346–47
Britannia, 8, 31
Britannic, 53
British Reparations Board, 81
Britten, Sir Edgar, 149, 152
Broad Street Club, 203–6, 215
Bromsgrove Guild, 149–50
Brooklyn Navy Yard, 64
Buckles, Paul K., 244–45
Buermann, Thomas, 196, 200, 201, 202, 249
bulbous bows, 57, 58, 120, 126, 149, 200
Burghley, Lord, 149
Burke, Edmund, 314
“cabin liners,” 157
cabins, 8, 31, 152
United States, 246, 255–58, 295, 357
Caccavale, Susan, 232, 322, 366
Calamai, Piero, 332–33
California, 160, 171, 342–43, 351, 352
Cambridge, Mass., 18–21, 37
see also Harvard
Campania, 3n
Camp Meade, Md., 65–67
Canada, 8, 22
Canadian Pacific Railway, 109
Cannon House Office Building, 183
cargo, 52, 53, 96, 336, 356, 358
smaller engines and, 125, 141, 203
cargo vessels, 170–72, 197, 198, 212, 336
Caribbean, 106, 139, 163, 349, 354
Carnival Miracle, 361
Carpathia, 40–42
Cassier’s, 13
cavitation, 55, 233
celebrities, 89, 135, 152, 161, 167, 213
crew and, 275, 276, 327–29
United States and, 252, 253, 255, 288–89, 295–296, 299, 308, 309, 313, 322–23, 326–32
Celtic, 16
Chamberlain Hotel, 245–46
champagne, 5, 10, 151, 245, 308, 309
Chandris Line, 349
Chapman, Paul Wadsworth, 117–18, 123, 124, 127, 128
Charles, Sir James, 114
Cherbourg, 90, 120
Chicago, Ill., 255, 302
Christy, Howard Chandler, 89
Churchill, Winston, 204, 211, 213, 218, 236, 311
City of New York, 11
City of Paris, 11
City of Pretoria, 111
Civil War, U.S., 10n
Clamchowder Jack, 265, 268
“clean sweep,” 271, 313
Clermont, 7
Cleveland, Frances, 3–4, 5, 241
Cleveland, Grover, 3–6
Clipper planes, 159
clippers, 5, 7, 122
clubs, 101, 102, 340
coal, 52, 54, 60, 79, 81, 97, 171
Coast Guard, U.S., 130, 265, 293
Cochrane, Edward L., 184, 188, 211, 266, 269, 282, 283, 296
Maritime Administration and, 229, 236, 264
Cochrane, Mrs. Edward L., 245
Cold War, 198, 244, 281
Collins, Edward Knight, 8–9
Collins Line, 8–9
“Collision Vindicates Safety Measures” (Gibbs), 111–12
color, 140, 205
for United States, 247, 251, 252–59
Columbia, 35
Columbia Law School, 35, 48–49, 144
Commerce Department, U.S., 229, 281, 348
communism, 219, 244
compartmentalization, 201, 220, 362
Compass Points, 231
Congress, U.S., 9, 11, 39, 44, 84, 155, 187, 280, 354, 358
Gibbs’s testimony to, 82, 184–88
Land’s testimony to, 173
Leviathan visit and, 71–72
Morro Castle disaster investigated by, 133, 134
Panamanian registry and, 162
Prohibition repealed by, 154
war declared by, 63
Warren’s report to, 224, 228
see also House of Representatives, U.S.; Senate, U.S.
Conifer, 265
Connally, Lucille, 244, 245
Connally, Tom, 244
construction, 9, 10, 25, 39, 45, 71–74, 84, 133, 146, 155, 170, 218
of Design 12201/United States, 208, 215, 216, 217, 220, 221, 227, 229–31, 235, 237–41, 266, 282, 283, 295, 319, 361–62
of destroyers, 171
Leviathan and, 71, 73–74, 79–81
of Lusitania-Mauretania, 30, 39