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Thread #43167   Message #850160
Posted By: Hrothgar
19-Dec-02 - 03:48 AM
Thread Name: Titanic and Olympic
Subject: RE: Titanic and Olympic
The White Star boats were named by classicists - Titanic, Olympic, etc, while the Shaw Savill boats were all named after tribes - I can remember Coptic, Aramaic, Illyric, Ionic etc from my shipping days (before a lot of the old shipping companies were consolidated after the introduction of containers).

That was a shame - somehow Associated Container Transportation just doesn't have the flavour of Ellerman and Bucknall, Shaw, Savill and Albion, Blue Funnel Line, and the rest.