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Documentary

Floating Palaces

10.0(1)

First Aired:April 21, 1996

Seasons:1 season

Episodes:2

Status:Ended

Queen Mary, Normandie, Mauretania: These great ocean liners of the Atlantic were the largest and most opulent passenger ships ever built. It was as if the finest hotels and most magnificent estates of the Western World had been put to sea. Tour their elite staterooms and swimming pools, and the below-deck immigrant quarters. Hear the real stories of the people who built and boarded them. Visit their renowned ports of call. Follow the great ships as they are drafted into combat, and witness the haunting tragedies that led the Lusitania, Titanic, and Andrea Doria to their doom.

Cast

Fritz Weaver

Fritz Weaver

Self - Narrator (voice)

Seasons & Episodes

E1Part 1

Apr 21, 1996

Before the sinking of the Lusitania and the advent of WWI, steamships crammed with immigrants carried their wealthy passengers in luxury.

E2Part 2

Apr 22, 1996

After WWI and before the sinking of the Normandie, the Leviathan, Mauretania, Queen Mary and other magnificent ships sailed the ocean.

Storyline

Queen Mary, Normandie, Mauretania: These great ocean liners of the Atlantic were the largest and most opulent passenger ships ever built. It was as if the finest hotels and most magnificent estates of the Western World had been put to sea. Tour their elite staterooms and swimming pools, and the below-deck immigrant quarters. Hear the real stories of the people who built and boarded them. Visit their renowned ports of call. Follow the great ships as they are drafted into combat, and witness the haunting tragedies that led the Lusitania, Titanic, and Andrea Doria to their doom.

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