People differ in taste from each other, and like widely different things.
There are palatial vessels with all the extreme luxury of the most exclusive of metropolitan hotels. Then there are ships, somewhat of less sumptuous and not of such mighty proportions, which might be compared to the delightful smaller private hotels which every city offers the initiated. Indeed, such ships which may not have possessed the virtue of scale, but certainly retained the character of deft service and tradition were the 20,000 ton sisterships Scythia, Samaria, and Laconia. After the toll taken on the shipping fleet of the Cunard Line following World War I, the Company was short on available tonnage to service it's lines across the Empire and abroad. 14 ships in all.