My Dad worked for Cammell Lairds at the time she was built. Think he was on the buying/procurement side. As far as I can tell he bought some surplus cabin furniture off her. I have two solid oak chest of drawers in my bedroom and the draws just glide in and out beautifully.
Something I'd like to get from the Mauretania or even from other ocean liners is one of those tables from the Writing Room or Library. You probably have seen them in photos: tables or carrels like you would find in a library but instead of a bookshelf across from the chair there are racks or caddies for holding stationery and envelopes. Some of those tables may even have had inkwells. Did you know that the Parker company made fountain pens from the melted brass and glass from the bridge of the wreck of the Queen Elizabeth/Seawise University? What a combination that would be: a writing table from the Mauretania and a pen made from part of the Queen Elizabeth!
Amazing John, very jealous! Things back then in general were just better and more solidly made. It'll still be going strong in 200 years if looked after right - a real treasure!
I'd forgotten what beautiful lines she had. A trim and elegant liner. Happily, unlike so many other great ones, she went out gracefully. No fires, explosions or humiliating sales to third-class operators.
I saw her anchored off the coast of Villefranche while on her final voyage in the fall of 1965. Still a lovely ship; it didn’t seem to make any sense that they were taking her out of service, but it was the jet age, and there suddenly wasn’t enough business for all the liners that had previously operated at near-capacity for decades.
this video made me cry... omg how the transatlantic era was beautiful to see. Seeing Mauretania taking cruises was one of the best moments in the video. Everyone happy and making the most of the ship. A long career. Congratulations Mauretania! Excellent video, OlympicWS!
Just found your video, I served on the Mauritania in the early 60's . She was still black and white and New York was our home port to cruise the Caribbean and South America, we also did a very extensive Mediterranean cruise with 600 millionaires on board and the first cruise ship to visit Isreal . Happy memories of a beautiful and happy ship Thank you
Wonderful, OlympicWS! An outstanding production---once again! I want to go back in time and travel on the Mauretania. Ocean liner development had progressed so much that the even though the second Mauretania was not even 20 feet shorter than the original liner with that name, one of the biggest in the world at the time, she was considered medium-sized. I like how Cunard had the two- and three-funnel Queens then there were the one- and two-funnel Caronia and Mauretania, smaller liners but in the same style as the Queens. I've read about how actress Lana Turner like to travel on the Mauretania because of it's smaller "club-like" atmosphere" and from this video I can see how this liner could develop a loyal "fan base" of passengers who would sail on her again and again.
Andrew Brendan Personally, Id buy her and restore her as my personal yacht or have her turned into a hotel/museum. Id love to have a small armada of these elegant ladies berthed and kept up as hotels, museums and storage ships.. id have tax write off donation support to keep these ladies as reminders of a golden era of ocean liners.
The majesty of launching of a big ship down a slipway is something that few people alive today have experienced-- not only as a member of the christening platform but also as one of the few people on the bow riding the vessel into the water. To fully complete the experience, one needs to be under the ship as the shipyard workers are knocking out the blocking to settle the vessel on the greased slipways. Alas, today most vessels are build in a drydock and "launched" when the drydock is flooded and vessel floats. Nowhere the thrill of seeing a huge vessel slide into the water.
what beautiful ship they knew how to make them in those days different to the block flats you on the cruises today. a magic time we will never see again
In 1950 my father bought a Round Trip Ticket from Cunard-White Star and sailed the Queen Mary from New York to Southampton. On his return voyage he sailed the Mauritania. He was very happy that the Mauritania was much slower making the Trans-Atlantic crossing than the Queen Mary because he got to eat the wonderous meals served for right at two more days than he would have riding the Queen!
Amazing to watch. The age of the transatlantic liner while troubled and for most us travelling was unaffordable, still evokes something extremely special. I travelled as a 9 year old on the SS Fairsky from Southampton to Sydney then as I grew up I would spend a lot of time at the International shipping terminal as there were still many liners arriving. Finally managed to see the Queen Elizabeth 2 while docked in Sydney. Did a cruise on Royal Viking Line and finally worked on board Holland America Line’s Rotterdam (the new flag ship at the time) There is nothing like being on board ship. Although I will pass on what they build today. Ugly overcrowded monsters.
They took the funnels off of her just to make her more aerodynamic. She was fitted with nitrous oxide and a cold air intake and was used in ocean liner drag races for years. She can still be seen off the coast of Miami racing the cigarette boats. She did donuts around me once while I was out in my bass boat. The captain was rude and flipped me off.
Some of Mauretania's fittings were used in a mall department store in 1969 but sadly the department store was demolished in 2001 and it is unknown if the fittings were saved...
My dad sailed to war on this ship, all the way from the Clyde to Ceylon where he changed ships for Africa. The ship had just been converted to a troop carrier. It had to go right round the tip of Africa to avoid the U-boats.
She was a wonderful ship; but I always felt bad that she was put into direct competition with the brand new Michelangelo and Raffaello. She didn't stand a chance.
Eh no worries. Michelangelo and Raffaello were huge money losers just like most of Cunard's fleet in the mid to late 60s. Even the QE2, SS France and Canberra lost millions of dollars during the beginning of their careers. That's why those ships were all threatened with being scrapped early in their lives. Michelangelo and Raffaello were never used to the extent that their owners had hoped mainly because they lost so much money. The SS Northern Star is another great example. The SS France, QE2 and Canberra however would go on to have amazing careers.
I once had a suitcase that had one of these travelling labels from the Mauritania on it. I'm pretty sure that the scrap yard at Inverkeithing is the one immediately below the Forth Rail Bridge on the East side of the bridge, right underneath in fact. You get an excellent view of things from a train. Many other ships ended their days there including the Olympic and the first Mauritania- I have a small trinket box made from a piece of her decking.
So true , I sailed on her at the age of four in August of 63 ,from New York to Genoa , with a stop in Gibraltar . We were in second class and I do not recall any of these events .I do recall my 10 year old sister in the play room ,winning the Monopoly tournament and winning a ships pin , a pin that she still has to this day. I believe that if the ships of today did regular crossings , with a massive advertising campaign, more people would use ships. I have crossed on The QM 2, 3 times from NYC to England, The QM 2 a dull ship even for a person of my age , but with the Corona Virus , it may put and end to travel as the world knows it , for years to come.
@@Jay-vr9ir Ive never sailed on any Cunard ship because im not posh enough even if i do have money. I did love to sail on P&O Canberra which i did a few times and i do like some of the modern day ships but to me they look like containers with windows stacked on top of each other, hardly awe inspiraing. To be honest i cant see why people would want to pay through the nose to sail on QM2 between Southampton and New York or vice versa. However if there was a good storm then that would be worth the cost i suppose. Yes i agree i think it will be a few years before line voyages as well as cruises get back to pre-Covid-19 levels
@@dave1001 A posh ship? I think not overrated and dull , is a better way to describe Cunard. Many people that travel on Cunard are nothing but hacks, such as myself. On my second trip to Europe I returned to The U.S.A. , from Southampton to Miami Beach on the then almost brand new Norwegian Escape ship , I payed $1, 400 dollars Canadian the ship was great, much more fun than The QM 2. I then took a Greyhound bus home from Florida to Canada , so much for posh.
@@Jay-vr9ir I think yo misunderstand the posh part - i am the guy who is not posh never dress posh dont own anything posh - just scruffy jeans etc. However no ship cruise ship is going anywhere right now and maybe they wont be for almost a year or more
I sailed on her Aug 63 tourist class , a year before I started kinder garden , New York to Genoa . My parents thought it would be great to sell everything in Canada and return to Italy ,MISTAKE!!!!!!!!!!!! We returned on the S.S. Constitution to Canada in March of 64 via New York train to Buffalo and uncle's brand new jet black 64 Dodge Polara,with a push button transmission to Port Colborne . The world had changed a lot in 6 months , The Mauretania was a much nicer ship .
Have you considered using period music in the background instead of the overblown, dramatic instrumentals that everyone else is using? I find I’m turning the sound off more nd more often.
This is truly a sad ending to such a wonderful ship. It reminds me of her namesake, except the 1907 Mauretania was much more beloved and had what President Roosevelt referred to as, "a soul you could talk to."
My Dad worked for Cammell Lairds at the time she was built. Think he was on the buying/procurement side. As far as I can tell he bought some surplus cabin furniture off her. I have two solid oak chest of drawers in my bedroom and the draws just glide in and out beautifully.
Oops accidentally liked my own comment. Also the four top draws have a spring loaded ball catch. Beautifully made.
Something I'd like to get from the Mauretania or even from other ocean liners is one of those tables from the Writing Room or Library. You probably have seen them in photos: tables or carrels like you would find in a library but instead of a bookshelf across from the chair there are racks or caddies for holding stationery and envelopes. Some of those tables may even have had inkwells. Did you know that the Parker company made fountain pens from the melted brass and glass from the bridge of the wreck of the Queen Elizabeth/Seawise University? What a combination that would be: a writing table from the Mauretania and a pen made from part of the Queen Elizabeth!
Amazing John, very jealous! Things back then in general were just better and more solidly made. It'll still be going strong in 200 years if looked after right - a real treasure!
I'll bet they do John! Keep them and treasure them always 😊
@@tenfootvoyager drawers, not draws
I'd forgotten what beautiful lines she had. A trim and elegant liner. Happily, unlike so many other great ones, she went out gracefully. No fires, explosions or humiliating sales to third-class operators.
Definitely a small Queen Mary!
I saw her anchored off the coast of Villefranche while on her final voyage in the fall of 1965. Still a lovely ship; it didn’t seem to make any sense that they were taking her out of service, but it was the jet age, and there suddenly wasn’t enough business for all the liners that had previously operated at near-capacity for decades.
They took her out of service because she was a real money loser. She lost millions of pounds for Cunard in her last 2 - 3 years of service.
@@mikemancini313 Cunard being a British firm , if they lost money it would have been Pounds and not Dollars
@@derekheeps1244 Sorry. I live in the United States. Used to using dollars. Not pounds. My mistake.
By the mid 60s Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth were reaching the end, too. Sad.
this video made me cry... omg
how the transatlantic era was beautiful to see. Seeing Mauretania taking cruises was one of the best moments in the video. Everyone happy and making the most of the ship. A long career. Congratulations Mauretania! Excellent video, OlympicWS!
thankfully we still have Ships from back in the old era
for examples
S.S Nomadic
R.M.S Queen mary
Marco Polo
MS Stockholm
and others
@@hevendor958 Certainly! These legends have survived for decades and continue to reflect the elegance they had in their early years.
@@hevendor958 The MS Stockholm is being taken out of service this year in October 2020 :,-(
@@adrianluis8800 its almost december
@@hevendor958 alot more than that
Just found your video, I served on the Mauritania in the early 60's . She was still black and white and New York was our home port to cruise the Caribbean and South America, we also did a very extensive Mediterranean cruise with 600 millionaires on board and the first cruise ship to visit Isreal .
Happy memories of a beautiful and happy ship
Thank you
Many of the onboard shots in this video reflect the older crowd that had the time and money to enjoy these ships.
Wonderful, OlympicWS! An outstanding production---once again! I want to go back in time and travel on the Mauretania. Ocean liner development had progressed so much that the even though the second Mauretania was not even 20 feet shorter than the original liner with that name, one of the biggest in the world at the time, she was considered medium-sized. I like how Cunard had the two- and three-funnel Queens then there were the one- and two-funnel Caronia and Mauretania, smaller liners but in the same style as the Queens. I've read about how actress Lana Turner like to travel on the Mauretania because of it's smaller "club-like" atmosphere" and from this video I can see how this liner could develop a loyal "fan base" of passengers who would sail on her again and again.
Andrew Brendan Personally, Id buy her and restore her as my personal yacht or have her turned into a hotel/museum. Id love to have a small armada of these elegant ladies berthed and kept up as hotels, museums and storage ships.. id have tax write off donation support to keep these ladies as reminders of a golden era of ocean liners.
¡Por favor no dejes de publicar vídeos!, simplemente tu trabajo es maravilloso.
Saludos desde Lima - Perú.
The majesty of launching of a big ship down a slipway is something that few people alive today have experienced-- not only as a member of the christening platform but also as one of the few people on the bow riding the vessel into the water. To fully complete the experience, one needs to be under the ship as the shipyard workers are knocking out the blocking to settle the vessel on the greased slipways. Alas, today most vessels are build in a drydock and "launched" when the drydock is flooded and vessel floats. Nowhere the thrill of seeing a huge vessel slide into the water.
It's amazing skilled people can build something like that, put it in the water and it floats.
Beautiful ship and a video to match it!
Looks more fun than being shoe horned into an airplane.
I'm so happy you are still uploading after 5 years! Very well done!
what beautiful ship they knew how to make them in those days different to the block flats you on the cruises today. a magic time we will never see again
My first voyage was with my parents on RMS Mauretania 2 in 1956. I am still a fan of Cunard.
Beautiful ship. Great woodwork.
I love how long her bow was in proportion to the rest of her.
In 1950 my father bought a Round Trip Ticket from Cunard-White Star and sailed the Queen Mary from New York to Southampton. On his return voyage he sailed the Mauritania. He was very happy that the Mauritania was much slower making the Trans-Atlantic crossing than the Queen Mary because he got to eat the wonderous meals served for right at two more days than he would have riding the Queen!
OLYMPICWS always a pleasure to watch not on here often enough for my liking.
You are hands-down the best ocean liner RUclipsr, as your passion just shines through the music and editing of your vids!
This ship has a very similar life to the SS America.
Similar indeed to the SS America and also the SS Nieuw Amsterdam. Three of a kind.
Shes like on the lines of the 1929 britannic class and SS america shes similar to these liners
Amazing to watch. The age of the transatlantic liner while troubled and for most us travelling was unaffordable, still evokes something extremely special. I travelled as a 9 year old on the SS Fairsky from Southampton to Sydney then as I grew up I would spend a lot of time at the International shipping terminal as there were still many liners arriving. Finally managed to see the Queen Elizabeth 2 while docked in Sydney. Did a cruise on Royal Viking Line and finally worked on board Holland America Line’s Rotterdam (the new flag ship at the time) There is nothing like being on board ship. Although I will pass on what they build today. Ugly overcrowded monsters.
They took the funnels off of her just to make her more aerodynamic. She was fitted with nitrous oxide and a cold air intake and was used in ocean liner drag races for years. She can still be seen off the coast of Miami racing the cigarette boats. She did donuts around me once while I was out in my bass boat. The captain was rude and flipped me off.
Awe inspiring!!...some captions a little fast to read but absolutely amazing!!
Smaller version of the old Queen Elizabeth. Very sad seeing her broken up.
Cannot stop watching this 😍
Some of Mauretania's fittings were used in a mall department store in 1969 but sadly the department store was demolished in 2001 and it is unknown if the fittings were saved...
My dad sailed to war on this ship, all the way from the Clyde to Ceylon where he changed ships for Africa. The ship had just been converted to a troop carrier. It had to go right round the tip of Africa to avoid the U-boats.
Nice video olympicws. Personally I like the original mauretania.
She was a wonderful ship; but I always felt bad that she was put into direct competition with the brand new Michelangelo and Raffaello.
She didn't stand a chance.
Sure they were more modern and sleek looking but their interiors were trash compared to the Mauritania.
Eh no worries. Michelangelo and Raffaello were huge money losers just like most of Cunard's fleet in the mid to late 60s. Even the QE2, SS France and Canberra lost millions of dollars during the beginning of their careers. That's why those ships were all threatened with being scrapped early in their lives. Michelangelo and Raffaello were never used to the extent that their owners had hoped mainly because they lost so much money. The SS Northern Star is another great example. The SS France, QE2 and Canberra however would go on to have amazing careers.
This was such an elegant compactly sized liner! How could style and luxury degrade to todays floating tourist factories ?
As a kid in the early 60s I got to thinking the Mauritania must be a really old ship by now. That was before I realized a new one had been built!
Such a beautiful ship. Saddens me to see it scrapped, as were so many others. But, one can not save them all.
I once had a suitcase that had one of these travelling labels from the Mauritania on it.
I'm pretty sure that the scrap yard at Inverkeithing is the one immediately below the Forth Rail Bridge on the East side of the bridge, right underneath in fact. You get an excellent view of things from a train. Many other ships ended their days there including the Olympic and the first Mauritania- I have a small trinket box made from a piece of her decking.
Ein wunderschönes Schiff
Great archival footage here. Always sad to see an ocean liner reach the end of its life.
What a surprise showing First Class passengers onboard and not the Third Class (immigrants) who kept these big ships in service and making a profit
So true , I sailed on her at the age of four in August of 63 ,from New York to Genoa , with a stop in Gibraltar . We were in second class and I do not recall any of these events .I do recall my 10 year old sister in the play room ,winning the Monopoly tournament and winning a ships pin , a pin that she still has to this day. I believe that if the ships of today did regular crossings , with a massive advertising campaign, more people would use ships. I have crossed on The QM 2, 3 times from NYC to England, The QM 2 a dull ship even for a person of my age , but with the Corona Virus , it may put and end to travel as the world knows it , for years to come.
@@Jay-vr9ir Ive never sailed on any Cunard ship because im not posh enough even if i do have money. I did love to sail on P&O Canberra which i did a few times and i do like some of the modern day ships but to me they look like containers with windows stacked on top of each other, hardly awe inspiraing. To be honest i cant see why people would want to pay through the nose to sail on QM2 between Southampton and New York or vice versa. However if there was a good storm then that would be worth the cost i suppose. Yes i agree i think it will be a few years before line voyages as well as cruises get back to pre-Covid-19 levels
@@dave1001 A posh ship? I think not overrated and dull , is a better way to describe Cunard. Many people that travel on Cunard are nothing but hacks, such as myself. On my second trip to Europe I returned to The U.S.A. , from Southampton to Miami Beach on the then almost brand new Norwegian Escape ship , I payed $1, 400 dollars Canadian the ship was great, much more fun than The QM 2. I then took a Greyhound bus home from Florida to Canada , so much for posh.
@@Jay-vr9ir I think yo misunderstand the posh part - i am the guy who is not posh never dress posh dont own anything posh - just scruffy jeans etc. However no ship cruise ship is going anywhere right now and maybe they wont be for almost a year or more
Rms Mauretania...small queen Elizabeth ❤❤❤
Miss Pette Buttiget, THE Little Queen.
Queenlette of Transportation 💄
I sailed on her Aug 63 tourist class , a year before I started kinder garden , New York to Genoa . My parents thought it would be great to sell everything in Canada and return to Italy ,MISTAKE!!!!!!!!!!!! We returned on the S.S. Constitution to Canada in March of 64 via New York train to Buffalo and uncle's brand new jet black 64 Dodge Polara,with a push button transmission to Port Colborne . The world had changed a lot in 6 months , The Mauretania was a much nicer ship .
Have you considered using period music in the background instead of the overblown, dramatic instrumentals that everyone else is using? I find I’m turning the sound off more nd more often.
This is truly a sad ending to such a wonderful ship. It reminds me of her namesake, except the 1907 Mauretania was much more beloved and had what President Roosevelt referred to as, "a soul you could talk to."
4 years later....
Smaller Mauritania doesn’t exist.
She can’t hurt you.
*smaller Mauritania :*
If only they still built ships like this ,I would be on them all the time
So there are 2 mauretania in Cunard?
I know the Mauritania was scrapped in 1935 but they built another one?
Sean Matthew Cruz , yup, :D
6:36 is that nomadic?
Samaria
The nomadic is a tender
maybe thats a different ship nomadic can be only seen on cherbourg because of her tender service there.
Cool!!
A record holder on more than 1 voyage as a troop ship during ww2.
This ship is criminally underrated
Wow it even travelled on phillipines
This ship was more modern as the original Mauretania
She is a wonderful ship....and I think she didn't live under the shadows of first Maury
Should have called it the Mauritania 2
Was she the first running mate to QM, before QE arrived?
Yes 🙂
@@OlympicWS thanks for the reply, amazing
Also thanks for uploading these increadible videos, they are beautifully and respectfully done!!
@@OlympicWS i think in combination with aquitania
@@wimspreeuwenberg2516 She was something between QE and QM. She is very unrated liner, her smart and stylish interiors were amazing.
Similar on the plan on white star was suppose to with the Oceanic 3 and britannic 3 and yes thats right shes the earlier running mate.
Wait wha- I didn't know there a Mauritania 2
7:25 I'm just vibin
There was a second one?
I wish she chould be a holtel
Wouldn't this ship be Mauretania 2?
In terms of timeline,yes. But Cunard refered here mustly as only the mauretania
Queen Elizabeth and a half(?)
Lol
Shes basicly a small and underated ver of the queens tho.
@@iloveclocks3988 and whats so funny ?
I just barely made it to The End title
Compare w/ SS America.