The Blue Riband: Race for Atlantic Speed

The fastest liners ever built and the record they hunted — Mauretania's twenty-two-year reign, and the turbo-electric SS United States that ended it all.

Playlist by @atlantic_steam_age

13 tracks, shared on Audicious.

1. How Did RMS Mauretania Hold the Blue Riband for 22 Years? — Big Old Boats
2. RMS Mauretania: Story of the Grand Old Lady — OlympicWS
3. The Life Of R.M.S. Mauretania — Blue Star Line
4. RMS Mauretania Deep Dive — Nautical Study
5. The Mauretania's Design Genius | Grand Plans — Oceanliner Designs
6. Mauretania The Speed Champion | HISTORY — Alex the Historian
7. What Made the SS United States SO Fast? — Oceanliner Designs
8. Blue Riband First Try (1952) — British Pathé
9. Timeline of the Fastest Ocean Liners (Blue Riband) — NB Ocean Liner History
10. Why Ocean Liners are SO MUCH TOUGHER & FASTER than Cruise Ships? [Ship Design Deep Dive] — Chris Frame the Maritime Historian
11. The Rivals: RMS Mauretania vs. RMS Olympic — OlympicWS
12. Lusitania & Mauretania: Cunard's Revolutionary Liners — The Great Big Move
13. "UNITED STATES" LINER BREAKS RECORD ON MAIDEN VOYAGE — British Movietone