mauretania

Hi all, Earlier today I was in conversation with a man who told me that the stern flag pole from the Mauretania had ended up outside Liverpool Football Club's stadium, Anfield. Now I had heard that a flag pole from a famous ship was installed outside this soccer stadium, but I had been lead to...

I own a three-branch electrolier (chandelier) in the rococo style, which may have come from the liner Mauretania. The overall height is approx 30cm, and each branch is approx 15cm long. It is stamped with the RD NO 261, which corresponds to 1882 and may be a clue. My late father, who died in...

Hi all, this is my first post here. I am a 20 year old student at UC Berkeley majoring in English and French. About seven years back I had some of my drawings sold in the Past Times store aboard the Queen Mary in Long Beach (and if anyone here bought any, do let me know!). With school and such...

Hi, Were any photos of the bathrooms (of any class), on the Maury ever taken? I am curious to know what they were like. I have got Mark Warren's book about her and there isn't anything in there, I thought that there might have been. Regards, Lucy

Hi everyone, I wonder if anyone could please help me with this. I bought two items on ebay a while back which were made from the Maury's decking, one is a little barrel, the other is a napkin ring. They have on them a gilt plaque which states "From the decking of the Mauretania the Old Lady...

Hello, Can anyone please help me with any photos and descriptions of Maury's interiors after they were revamped in 1926? In Humfrey Jordan's Mauretania(pp261-2) there is mention of a pamphlet from February 1927 advertising the refit, is this pamphlet available to view on the web? I would...

Hello, I'm a new member and it's my "maiden voyage", so to speak, on the board, so please be gentle with me!!! I wonder if anyone can help me with a tale my father used to tell me about the Maury's whistles ending up being redeployed as the hooter for the Appleby-Frodingham steelworks at...

I was always told that my great grandad, who was James Murray, was chief engineer on the Mauritania. He was born in 1850 and the last photo I have shows him in Cunard uniform with 4-rings. I suppose he's just about the right age to have been on the ship on its record breaking trips. Can anyone...

Hi All, here is a beautiful "true" color postcard of Mauretania produced with the laborious German collotype process - a photomechanical method of rendering color with smooth tonal transitions without a screen producing great depth. I re-exposed the postcard when scanning to remove some age...

Does anyone know where I could acquire a high-quality color 8 x 10 photo of her? (In black paint) I have an ashtray from her and would like to have a photo to put behind it. Thanks, Brent

On a recent trip to Dublin, I was told of a pub that had "Stuff from the Titanic's sister ship". Curiosity naturally aroused, I went to the said pub, The Oak in Dame Street, to find that it claimed to have the French Room from the Mauretania. I've not heard of a French Room on the Mauretania...

Hello, I recently visited Bristol, England on 2 June 2005, just to see the "Mauretania" pub. Please see my photos at http://tinyurl.com/7q856 The woodwork from the Mauretania is all still there, in all it's glory. The pub is now a hip nightspot, there is a mirrored disco ball hanging...

Hi, There are two records to consider - East and West. The Mauretania first took the Eastbound from Lusitania in 1907, and held solid the Westbound from 1909 to July of 1929 - losing it by small margin to the NDL Bremen. Mauretania could not have won in July '07 as her second trials and...

Hi, looking hard for any photographs/images etc. of Officers or Engineers on the first Mauretania. Willing to trade some NICE unique/scarce stuff - 1906-1935. Please write if interested. Best, Eric

I already have the Mark D Warren editions of Engineering souvenir issues of Lusitania and Mauretania. I'm now wondering whether to get the Shipbuilder reprint, entitled "Ocean Liners of the Past - Lusitania and Mauretania". Is it worth getting - I mean, is there anything in this book that's...

Was the Mauretania II a Royal Mail ship? If not then she wouldn't carry the RMS prefix. The reason I ask is that I have a silver bon bon tray and am trying to determine if it came from the 1st or 2nd ship. It has a raised Cunard Crest with the name RMS Mauretania. Although I would like...

I remember seeing a picture of the Mauretania and the Olympic layed up in a dock ready for scrapping. I know that the interiors from the Olympic are in a hotel in Alnick in the north east. I would like to know some information about where the ships were broke up, etc. Does anybody know any...

Given that Lusitania was fitted with four bladed propellers in 1909, therefore why couldn`t she quite compete with the slightly faster Mauretania?

When did Mauretania Have her Quadruple Bladed Screws Installed? I'm just wondering, as I've been looking through all my issues of The Shipbuilder and Engineering, and in all pics of her Screws they are Triple Bladed. Though far as i know she had Quadruple bladed screws on her maiden voyage, does...

I remember my brother Robert telling me something years back about the Mauretania's anchor chains being still in existence. Does anyone know any more about them?? I live not far away from Rosyth where the great ship was broken up in 1935. If they are still there I will go and see them. Also...