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