1906 · Turbine Express Steamer · Werk 183 von 1.871

Lusitania sliding down the ways at John Brown's yard on the Clyde, the huge bare hull moving down greased timber ways that slope into the river, the hull resting on and travelling along the ground of the slipway, its stern already afloat and its bow still on the ways, the hull complete only to main deck level, drag chains piled along the bank, launch platform crowded with shipyard spectators, tugs waiting in the river.