Beyond the Breakers

Episode 90 - SS Vestris ft. Old Shipping Lines

February 05, 2023 Taylor and Tanner Season 3 Episode 5
Beyond the Breakers
Episode 90 - SS Vestris ft. Old Shipping Lines
Show Notes

This week we have special guest Jamie (from Old Shipping Lines on YouTube) to discuss the sinking of the British liner SS Vestris in 1928.

Sources:

Berchtold, William E. "More Fodder for Photomaniacs." The North American Review, vol. 239, no. 1, January 1935, pp. 19-30.

Grace, Michael. "Disaster at Sea - SS Vestris" Cruising the Past, 21 Nov 2009. https://www.cruiselinehistory.com/disaster-at-sea-ss-vestris/

"Lamport & Holt's S.S. Vestris." 3 Feb 2012. www.bluestarline.org/lamports/vestris.html

Olivier, Clint. The Last Dance of the Vestris. 2013.

Shenna, Paddy. "The sinking of SS Vestris - the shipping disaster that time forgot." Liverpool Echo, 21 Oct 2013. www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/nostalgia/evening-read-sinking-ss-vestris-6219504

Weiss, Holger. “Reopening Work Among Colonial Seamen.” A Global Radical Waterfront: The International Propaganda Committee of Transport Workers and the International of Seamen and Harbour Workers, 1921 - 1937. Brill, 2021, pp. 161 - 179. 

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