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races, transatlantic, 92, 318

radar, 260–61, 271, 307

RadaRange, 277

radio communications, 259, 261, 302, 331

Raffaello, 346

railroads, 9, 10, 278, 279, 285, 310, 336

   Gibbs’s search for financing and, 54, 59

Rand, William B., 348

rate war, 39

Ravel, Maurice, 194–95

Raydist buoys, 265, 268

real estate, 35, 38, 47, 49, 101, 181, 340, 357

reciprocating engines, 28–29, 30, 54, 171

Red Star Line, see International Navigation Company

reduction gears, 267, 269, 270

Reed, John, 19–20

Reed, Sherman, 123, 124

refugees, 9, 166, 167, 169

Reiner, Fritz, 295

Republicans, 84, 116, 302, 331

Repulse, 225

restaurants, 252–53, 299

“Revolt of the Admirals,” 226

Rex, 135–36, 137, 153, 167

Rickover, Hyman, 355

Rigg, Ernest, 97

Robins Dry Dock and Repair Company, 174

Robinson, Samuel M., 142, 143, 144

Rockefeller, John D., 10

Rockefeller family, 15

Rockport, Mass., 340–41, 342, 365

Rogers, George, 130–31

Rome, 101

Roosevelt, Eleanor, 161, 276, 367

Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 33, 55, 115, 155–56

   Curran and, 162

   death of, 198

   Gibbs compared with, 144

   Mauretania admired by, 154

   rebuilding of Navy and, 134, 141, 142, 144, 182

   southern allies of, 182, 183

   World War II and, 169, 171, 174, 179–80

Roosevelt, Kermit, 77, 127–28, 155

Roosevelt, Sara, 295

Roosevelt, Theodore, 77, 89, 183

Roosevelt Steamship Company, 77

Rostron, Arthur H., 40

Rota, Joe, 328, 331, 345, 369

rotors, 30, 55

Royal Naval College, 56–57

Royal Navy, British, 29, 170, 260–61

Rubinstein, Helena, 167

Ruser, Hans, 51, 94

Russia, Czarist, navy of, 19

Russian spies, 288

Russo-Japanese War, 19

S-171 (“Proposed American Passenger Steamship”), 58, 62, 68, 72–73, 74

safety, 39, 53, 160

   of airplanes, 160, 214, 334

   of cruise ships, 362

   of Design 12201/United States, 210–12, 246–249, 251, 258–61, 291, 302, 362

   of German superliners, 51

   Gibbs and, 47, 48, 111–12, 134, 158, 175, 179, 196, 201–2, 246–49, 282, 332, 333, 362

   luxury vs., 132

   Mauretania and, 32

   of Morro Castle and Oriente, 119

   Morro Castle fire and, 131, 132, 134

   Smith’s bill and, 44–45

   SOLAS and, 45, 112

   World War II and, 165, 167

sailing packets, 5

sailing ships, 7, 8

St. Lawrence River, 109–10

St. Louis, 3–6, 11, 12–13, 16, 32, 105, 244, 272

   christening of, 5, 12, 241, 359

   obsolescence of, 50

St. Paul, 5, 6, 11, 94, 244

Sanderson, Harold, 82

Santa Elena, 139–41, 239

Santa Lucia, 140–41, 239

Santa Paula, 139–41, 239, 335

Santa Rosa, 139–41, 239, 335, 367–68

Sarnoff, David, 42, 295

Savannah, 7

Savarona, 368

Sawyer, Charles, 279, 281–84

Schwieger, Walter, 52

Scotland, 26, 30, 154, 159, 165

scrap, 158–59, 176, 346, 350, 353, 357–61, 369

sculpture, 289–90

   of United States, 246, 249–50, 251, 253, 254, 255, 257, 268, 270, 308

Sea Cloud, 368

Sea-Land, 336

Seawise University, 352–53

Securities and Exchange Commission, 156

segregation, 250, 278, 303

Senate, U.S., 41–42, 118, 227, 244

   Commerce Committee of, 117–18

   merchant marine investigated by, 133

Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, 276–77

sheer and camber, 246–47

Shelley, John, 283

Shipping Act (1916), 53

Shipping Board, U.S., 53, 91, 116, 118, 128

   demise of, 155

   Leviathan reconversion and, 70, 72–77, 79–85

   P. Franklin’s payment to, 154

Shipping Control Committee, U.S., 64–67

shipping trust, plans for, 12

   see also International Mercantile Marine

Shipyard Bulletin, 239–40

Singapore, 225

size, 3, 6, 10, 16, 23, 47, 361

   of America, 195

   Cunard Line and, 25, 123

   of Design 11811, 195

   of Design 12201/United States and, 202, 206, 356, 359

   of Design IV, 195

   of destroyers, 142

   of Ferris’s superliners, 126

   of France, 336

   of German express liner, 209

   of German superliners, 51, 74

   in Gibbs’s designs, 50, 69, 84, 196, 202

   of Leviathan, 81–82, 90, 116

   of Majestic vs. Leviathan, 81–82

   of Malolo, 105

   of Morro Castle and Oriente, 119

   of Normandie, 136, 149

   of Queen Mary, 149, 152–53, 165, 180, 195, 202, 208

   of T-6, 122

Smith, Edward J., 40, 41, 45, 112

Smith, Richard Austin, 335, 336

Smith, William Alden, 40–45, 261

Smoot, Reed, 89

Snyder, John W., 295, 296

Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, 107, 126–27, 134, 193, 208, 355–56

SOLAS, see International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea

Somers, 146

Somers-class destroyers, 146

Sousa, John Philip, 245

Southampton, 39, 90, 123, 124, 149, 165, 207, 213, 352

   Ocean Liner Terminal in, 302, 311

   United States in, 311–13

South Atlantic, 135

Soviet Union, 147, 164, 179, 217–18, 226

   Nazi nonaggression pact with, 166

speed, 5–12, 16, 23, 29, 50, 146, 361

   airplanes and, 214, 346

   of America, 157

   of battleships, 19, 29

   of Bremen, 121, 126, 164

   of Britannia, 8

   British cargo vessels and, 171

   of Design 12201/United States, 20, 202, 203, 206, 207, 210, 225, 231, 264–69, 271, 291–292, 298–99, 301–10, 313, 314, 318, 355–56

   of Design IV, 195

   of Dreadnought, 29

   of Europa, 121, 126

   of Ferris’s superliners, 126

   high-pressure, high-temperature steam and, 124–25

   of Leviathan, 80, 81, 82, 87–88, 90, 91, 92, 120, 266

   of Lusitania, 26, 27, 32

   of Mauretania, 26, 30, 32, 33, 56, 59, 69, 84, 88, 90, 91, 92, 116, 121, 266

   of Morro Castle and Oriente, 119

   of Navy destroyers, 144, 146