SAILING IN STYLE
Jun 10, 2021
4 minutes
WORDS: CHARLOTTE HODGMAN
When the enormous RMS Titanic steamed out of Southampton in 1912 to a fanfare of cheers and goodbyes, few people would have believed that its first journey would also be its last.
A floating microcosm of Edwardian society, the ship transported men, women and children of all social classes – from the super-rich, to the struggling poor. Perhaps surprisingly, given its reputation as the world’s largest man-made moving object, few official images remain of much-vaunted luxury interiors. Its sister ship, , had beaten to launch by just over seven months, and had been much photographed. But with virtually identical fixtures and fittings, and an expected long service ahead of it,grandeur.
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