£280
CUNARD: Superb First-Class dining room chair from R.M.S. Berengaria, with the carved roses at the top rail and acanthus to the knees with x-frame bottom. NB The Berengaria was previously named S.S. Imperator and a German ocean liner built for the Hamburg America Line (Hamburg Amerikanische Paketfahrt Aktien Gesellschaft, or HAPAG), launched in 1912. At the time of her completion in June 1913, she was the largest passenger ship in the world by gross tonnage, surpassing the new White Star liner Olympic. Imperator was the first of a trio of successively larger Hamburg American liners that included S.S. Vaterland (later the United States Liner Leviathan) and S.S. Bismarck (taken as war reparation and renamed Majestic for the White Star Line transatlantic passenger service).
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