The 1930s was perhaps the most glamorous and exciting decade for the great liners, highlighted by ferocious international shipbuilding rivalry: Germanys Bremen and Europa, Italys Rex and Conte Di Savoia, Frances Normandie and Britains Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth. Passengers travelled on some of the most popular liners of all time, such as LAtlantique, Empress of Britain, Empress of Japan, Queen of Bermuda, President Coolidge, Strathnaver and Strathaird, Orion, Capetown Castle, Oranje, Mauretania, Andes, and many more. Despite the worldwide Depression and a great shift in trading patterns, it was a wonderful decade for shipbuilding and the era of art deco on the high seas the age of floating Ginger Rogers.