Maiden Voyages
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Shore leave:
Siemens and Company:
Simpson, Wallis (see also Windsor, Duke and Duchess of):
Singapore:
Sitwell, Sir Osbert:
Slocombe, Maud:
Smith, Edie:
Smith, Captain of the Titanic:
Smoking room:
Smuggling:
Society for the Overseas Settlement of British Women (SOSBW):
Somerville, Miss, chief lady superintendent for Cunard:
Sorrell, Captain Donald:
Southampton:
Soviet Union, The:
Sowerbutts, Edith:
Sowerbutts, Dorothy:
Spanish flu epidemic:
Sparbier, Fraulein Annaliese:
Speakeasies:
Spear, Fred:
Special Branch:
Spedding, Purser on Aquitania:
Spoleto, Duke of:
Spread spectrum technology:
Squash courts:
St Louis race riots:
Stalin, Joseph:
Stanley, Dr Jo:
Staten Island Ferry:
Statue of Liberty:
Steerage (see also Third Class):
Stenographer, ship’s:
Stevens, Mrs Agnes:
Stewardess, first mention in literature:
Stewardess’s role:
Steward’s role:
Stewart, James:
Storms at sea:
Stornoway Gazette, The:
Stotesbury, Mrs Edward:
Straw Without Bricks: I Visit Soviet Russia:
Sturt, Napier George Henry
rd Baron Alington (aka ‘Naps’)
Submarines: see also U-boats:
Sullivan, Father Roderic:
Superstitions:
‘Surplus’ women:
Swaffer, Hannen:
Swanson, Gloria:
Swimming pool:
Swimming, popularity of:
Swimming instructress:
Sydney Morning Herald, The:
Synagogues:
T
Taylor, Robert:
Tea dances:
Temperance movement:
Tennenbaum, Mark, Earnestine and Robert:
Tennis courts:
‘Terps’, the interpreter:
Thanks for the Memory:
Théâtre des Champs-Élysées:
Thé dansant – see tea dances
Theft:
There’ll Always Be An England:
Third class:
Third Reich:
This is Your Life:
Thomas, Margaret:
Thor, The:
Thorhauge, Inger Klein, Captain:
Thorne, Rex:
Three Mile Limit:
Tiller Girls:
Time and Tide:
Times, The:
Tips:
Tirpitz, Admiral:
Titanic, The:
Titanic official enquiries:
Tong:
Torpedoes:
Toscanini, Arturo:
Tourist class:
Towns, Lilian Rose:
Transylvania, The:
Treasure hunts:
Trump, Frederick Christ:
Trump, Donald J.:
Tsar Nicholas of Russia:
Tucker, Blanche:
Turkish baths:
Turnbull, Ann:
Turner, Captain W.T.:
Twelve Mile Limit:
Typewriter as aid to women’s emancipation:
Tyrrhenia, The:
U
U-boats:
Uniforms:
United States Lines:
Union Line:
‘Unsinkable Stewardess, The’ – see Violet Jessop:
V
VAD (Voluntary Aid Detachment):
Valentino, Rudolph:
Valets:
Vanderbilt, Brigadier-General Cornelius:
Vanderbilt, Gloria (née Morgan):
Vase de nuit (chamberpot):
VE Day:
Verandah Grill:
Venice Lido:
Viceroy of India, The:
Victoria, Queen:
Victoria and Albert Museum:
Victualling:
Vinovia, The:
Vionnet, Madeleine:
Volendam, The:
Volstead Act, The:
Vuitton, Louis:
W
Wages:
Walder, Bessie and Louis:
Waldorf Astoria Hotel, New York:
Wales, Prince of:
Wallis, Frederick A., Commissioner for Immigration for the State of New York:
War Brides:
War Brides Act (1945):
War Bride’s Guide to the USA
Warden, Colonel – aka Winston Churchill:
Waring & Gallow:
War reparations:
Washington Post, The:
Watkins, Casimir:
Waugh, Alec:
Waugh, Evelyn:
Weissmuller, Johnny:
West, Mae:
Westminster Gazette, The:
Whatmore, Mrs:
‘White slave trade’ – see also sex trafficking:
White Star Line: xi
White Star Magazine:
Wilder, Billy:
Windsor, Duke and Duchess of:
Wireless operators, male:
Wireless operators, female:
Wodehouse, P. G.:
De Wolfe, Elsie:
Wood, Ghislaine:
Women as pilots:
Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps (WAACs):
Women’s Mercantile Naval Reserve:
Women’s Pan-American Conference, Baltimore, 1922
Women’s Royal Naval Service (WRNS, or ‘Wrens’):
Women’s Swimming Association (New York):
Women’s wear on board ship:
Women working as sailors:
Women working as shipbuilders:
Women’s suffrage:
Woollcott, Alexander:
Woon, Basil:
Worth, The House of:
Wuerttemberg, The:
Y
Yale Club, New York:
Yalta:
York, Duke and Duchess of:
Z
Zeeland, The:
Zeppelin, Count:
Ziegfeld Follies:
Zinkeisen, Anna and Doris:
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Contents
Title Page
Copyright Notice
Dedication
Dramatis Personae
Prologue
Introduction: Cresting the Waves
1. Floating Palaces and the ‘Unsinkable’ Violet Jessop
2. From the Ritz to the Armistice
3. Sail Away: Post-war Migration and the Escape from Poverty
4. The Roaring Twenties
5. Edith Sowerbutts and Her Contemporaries
6. For Leisure and Pleasure
7. Depression and Determination
8. The Slide to War
9. Women under Fire
10. Romance, Repa
triation and Recovery
Conclusion: Sailing into the Sunset
Ships’ Names by ‘Lucio’
Photographs
Acknowledgements
Picture Credits
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Also by Siân Evans
About the Author
Copyright
First published in the United States by St. Martin’s Press, an imprint of St. Martin’s Publishing Group
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Originally published in Great Britain by Two Roads, an imprint of John Murray Press, an Hachette UK company
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