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First Class Gymnasium on the 'Aquitania' (1914)
Interior of the passenger liner 'Aquitania' (1914) showing the First Class Gymnasium, on the starboard side of the Main Deck (E Deck), a view looking forward. A cycling machine is in the left foreground. The equipment was supplied by Spencer, Heath & George Ltd, London.
Transatlantic liners were expected to be equipped with all the luxuries of a hotel or a club, and swimming pools and gymnasiums soon became regular and indispensable fixtures.
Transatlantic liners were expected to be equipped with all the luxuries of a hotel or a club, and swimming pools and gymnasiums soon became regular and indispensable fixtures.
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Object Details
| ID: | G10887 |
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| Collection: | Historic Photographs |
| Type: | Glass plate negative |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Creator: | Bedford Lemere & Co |
| Vessels: | Aquitania (1914) |
| Date made: | 1914 |
| People: | John Brown & Company; Mewes & Davis |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
| Measurements: | Overall: 254 mm x 305 mm |