The exhibition began with a collection of publicity posters – all very striking – and large scale models of some of the liners. I was much taken with the idea of a £140 return trip First Class to Australia by cruise liner. Those were the days! Not all the posters extolled the virtues of luxury travel – one of the most striking was a World War 1 recruitment poster featuring the sinking of the Lusitania – a deliberate plea at the heartstrings as it featured a drowning mother clutching her baby.
Indeed there was a lot about sinking here – a real deck-chair rescued from the Titanic, found floating on the surface above the wreck along with other Titanic artifacts raised from the deep.
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