Home movie footage from a 1931 cruise aboard the ocean liner Mauretania.
This ship was built in 1906 and was sister ship to the ill-fated Lusitania.
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Home movie footage from a 1931 cruise aboard the ocean liner Mauretania.
This ship was built in 1906 and was sister ship to the ill-fated Lusitania.
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You’re right, that was interesting. The film has amazing clarity for its time, so I guess it’s been restored in some way.
Thanks, I wonder who “Puss Dad” was? I’m guessing that was the daughter…interesting to see the West Indies street scenes, a bit different eighty years on.
Although they appear to be pretty well off, the woman in the video looks like she has had a long, rough go of it. Maybe that is why they are vacationing in a warm climate. Thanks for sharing – very interesting.
These elegant ships were originally coal-powered, and the amount of human effort required to keep them going was immense. Mauretania burned something like 1000 tons of coal per day, and a force of 300 stokers was employed to shovel it into the furnaces. She was converted to oil burning during the 1920s, before the trip on this video.