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    Extremely Cool

    Posted by David Foster on December 3rd, 2014 (All posts by )

    Home movie footage from a 1931 cruise aboard the ocean liner Mauretania.

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    This ship was built in 1906 and was sister ship to the ill-fated Lusitania.

     

    This entry was posted on Wednesday, December 3rd, 2014 at 9:56 pm and is filed under Anglosphere, Britain, History, Transportation. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

    4 Responses to “Extremely Cool”

    1. Michael Hiteshew Says:
      December 3rd, 2014 at 11:53 pm

      You’re right, that was interesting. The film has amazing clarity for its time, so I guess it’s been restored in some way.

    2. Will Says:
      December 4th, 2014 at 6:52 am

      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.

    3. Dan from Madison Says:
      December 4th, 2014 at 7:56 am

      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.

    4. David Foster Says:
      December 4th, 2014 at 9:25 am

      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.

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