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Oceanliner Designs

Oceanliner Designs explores the design, construction, engineering and operation of history’s greatest machines and vessels– from Titanic to Queen Mary and from the R.101 airship to the battleship Bismarck. Join researcher and illustrator Michael Brady as he tells the stories behind some of history's most famous ocean liners and machines!

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