From The Times: August 26, 1923
There is a polite fiction that London is empty in August but, as a matter of fact, as the Londoner deserts its streets, so the provincial and foreign visitors arrive. Great numbers of Americans are homeward bound just now, but other American tourists of more moderate means are coming over.
The Berengaria, which left Southampton for New York on Saturday, took more than 775 first-class passengers, 700 second-class, and 1,500 third-class – a total, with the crew and some cross-Channel travellers, of four thousand people. This is stated to be a “record” for one ship in peacetime.
At the same time the White Star liners from Liverpool and Southampton have been leaving with every berth occupied, and six vessels
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