Chapter TwoAs The Etruria ploughed through the heavy seas, Lord Harleston could only be thankful of Cunard’s boast that in forty-three years they had never lost the life of a passenger and in the previous thirty-four years never a letter.
No other company could say that and it gave Lord Harleston a feeling of safety even though The Etruria seemed very small and the Atlantic very large.
The Etruria was actually one of the biggest ships to cross the Atlantic and, although there was always talk of building bigger ones, Cunard still held the Blue Riband.
The ship was, from the tourists’ point of view, the greatest luxury afloat.
With her two funnels and three masts she was large enough to provide for those who could afford separate State Cabins rather than communal ones and they were heate
