Outstanding video! The quality of this is remarkably good---and the music is wonderful. A pleasure to watch and listen to this and to see not just the Mauretania and other liners too and the port which they sailed in and out of.
Hi, thanks for the very kind feedback...though of course the credit goes to the person that filmed this 70 years ago...never realising we could all see his hard work now!
I sailed on this ship in 1964 from New York to Ireland. I was 6 years old and remember it pretty well. The tugboat came to the ship to ferry people ashore as the ship was too big to come into port. The seagulls came out to greet us, it was an overcast day and the water was very choppy. What a memorable experience to have and I treasure it.
That means when you were in there the ship was painted green because u boarded her in 1964 and in 1962 she was painted green and actually 1 year after u boarded her in 1965 she was scrapped and 1 question is she ur fav ship
Thanks for a lovely video . Many memories, I served on her in the 60s we where based in New York and cruised the Caribbean and Mediterranean. She was still in her black and white livery. I was with P&O Himalaya and saw her in Naples on her last voyage , very sad. So thanks again .
Although the second Mauretania is a heavily underrated liner, of which I am also guilty, this is by far probably the best video I've seen of traveling on one of the old liners. Funny how the world works. _(there's a couple familiar faces here as well; America, Mary, and Aquitania :)_
This would be from mid-1948 or 1949 since there is a surprise "guest appearance" from Aquitania. She was the last surviving 4 funneled liner and would serve for nearly 36 years before going to the shipbreakers in February 1950s.
Hi, thanks for the info, it probably is 1949 based on the films that came with this. I can't change the titles in the film now, but I have changed the video description. I guess when I was trying to date this, a part of me found it hard to believe it could be so old, yet have such nice colour.
Yes, most likely 1948-1949, or even early 1950. Aquitania was docked in Southampton till February 1950 for which she then left to the scrapyard. She arrived in February and scrapping had begun in March 1950.
@@maxustaxus This was shot by a skilled amaeur on Kodachrome film, I'd guess. Kodachrome was stable and maintained its colour values whereas Ektachrome which mostly supplanted it in the 60s to 80s because it was cheaper and could be processed by many labs has proved anything but colour stable. The Cunard promo for the MS Adventurer from about 72 shows this really well.
I was on the Mauretania from 1952 to 1954. I was a motion picture projectionist, and I run the three cinemas she had on board. When I came home to Liverpool in 1954 to stay with my parents for a month, I was asked to assist a Wallasey cinema that was in trouble. I went and sorted out their problems and while there I met and married an usherette and never went back. See Video: ruclips.net/video/bRv5HEvfseE/видео.html
@@maxustaxus Our marriage lasted 56 years until she passed away age 76, with three sons, four grandchildren, and since four great grandchildren. Sadly no option here for a photograph. Have you tried the video?
@@alfredmahon3587 I am sorry to hear that your wife passed...there are no words I can say that can touch what that means after such a time together...but you have children and grand children. That is a meaningful legacy for you both. That is much, and you could have done no more I think.
Yes the last scenes are of Southampton. It shows Calshot where the flyingboats (aircraft) were based the Tug/Tender "Calshot" - previously preserved but recently sold for conversion into a private yacht. The "Aquitania", the "Queen Mary", Royal Pier where the ferries to the Isle of Wight still leave from and the Solent Flour Mill owned by Rank recently demolished. There is no Ocean Terminal which was opened in 1950 so 1949 is about right. See other comments re."Aquitania".
Great quality, great camera work! Thanks! This ship (and others) was hired by the Canadian forces to bring war brides and babies (me!) to Canada in 1946. No, it didn't bring back any memories, sadly.
The burned out ship was originally the Furness, Withy & Co. liner Monarch of Bermuda from 1931. This is from 'Great Passenger Ships of the World" volume 3, by Arnold Kludas: "During renovationwork at Newcastle for return to passenger service she was almost completely destroyed by fire. The Ministry of Transport bought the wreck and had it rebuilt by Thornycroft, Southampton, as an emigrant carrier..." In 1949 the Monarch of Bermuda became the New Australia with a new and far different appearance. In 1958 she became the Arkadia under the Greek flag and after modernization was in service until 1966. The Monarch of Bermuda/New Australia/Arkadia had quite a career!
A criminally underrated beauty.
Outstanding video! The quality of this is remarkably good---and the music is wonderful. A pleasure to watch and listen to this and to see not just the Mauretania and other liners too and the port which they sailed in and out of.
Hi, thanks for the very kind feedback...though of course the credit goes to the person that filmed this 70 years ago...never realising we could all see his hard work now!
I sailed on this ship in 1964 from New York to Ireland. I was 6 years old and remember it pretty well. The tugboat came to the ship to ferry people ashore as the ship was too big to come into port. The seagulls came out to greet us, it was an overcast day and the water was very choppy. What a memorable experience to have and I treasure it.
That means when you were in there the ship was painted green because u boarded her in 1964 and in 1962 she was painted green and actually 1 year after u boarded her in 1965 she was scrapped and 1 question is she ur fav ship
4:12 RMS Aquitania the last surviving 4 funnel ship
Thanks for a lovely video .
Many memories, I served on her in the 60s we where based in New York and cruised the Caribbean and Mediterranean. She was still in her black and white livery.
I was with P&O Himalaya and saw her in Naples on her last voyage , very sad.
So thanks again .
Although the second Mauretania is a heavily underrated liner, of which I am also guilty, this is by far probably the best video I've seen of traveling on one of the old liners. Funny how the world works. _(there's a couple familiar faces here as well; America, Mary, and Aquitania :)_
Thanks for this. My Mam went from Ireland to NY on her in 1951. Great to see
Glad you enjoyed it
Then your mother joined the ship in Cobh.
That was fantastic...
Thank you for this .
Excellent, I enjoyed that.
Glad to hear it!
This would be from mid-1948 or 1949 since there is a surprise "guest appearance" from Aquitania. She was the last surviving 4 funneled liner and would serve for nearly 36 years before going to the shipbreakers in February 1950s.
Hi, thanks for the info, it probably is 1949 based on the films that came with this. I can't change the titles in the film now, but I have changed the video description. I guess when I was trying to date this, a part of me found it hard to believe it could be so old, yet have such nice colour.
Yes, most likely 1948-1949, or even early 1950. Aquitania was docked in Southampton till February 1950 for which she then left to the scrapyard. She arrived in February and scrapping had begun in March 1950.
@@maxustaxus This was shot by a skilled amaeur on Kodachrome film, I'd guess. Kodachrome was stable and maintained its colour values whereas Ektachrome which mostly supplanted it in the 60s to 80s because it was cheaper and could be processed by many labs has proved anything but colour stable. The Cunard promo for the MS Adventurer from about 72 shows this really well.
I was on the Mauretania from 1952 to 1954. I was a motion picture projectionist, and I run the three cinemas she had on board. When I came home to Liverpool in 1954 to stay with my parents for a month, I was asked to assist a Wallasey cinema that was in trouble. I went and sorted out their problems and while there I met and married an usherette and never went back. See Video: ruclips.net/video/bRv5HEvfseE/видео.html
Hi, thanks for this account from the past. I hope you and the usherette you married lived full and happy life.
@@maxustaxus Our marriage lasted 56 years until she passed away age 76, with three sons, four grandchildren, and since four great grandchildren. Sadly no option here for a photograph. Have you tried the video?
@@alfredmahon3587 I am sorry to hear that your wife passed...there are no words I can say that can touch what that means after such a time together...but you have children and grand children. That is a meaningful legacy for you both. That is much, and you could have done no more I think.
Yes the last scenes are of Southampton. It shows Calshot where the flyingboats (aircraft) were based the Tug/Tender "Calshot" - previously preserved but recently sold for conversion into a private yacht. The "Aquitania", the "Queen Mary", Royal Pier where the ferries to the Isle of Wight still leave from and the Solent Flour Mill owned by Rank recently demolished. There is no Ocean Terminal which was opened in 1950 so 1949 is about right. See other comments re."Aquitania".
Thanks for this incredibly well informed description of the locality. It is as if you have an account no less than a rich personal memory.
Great quality, great camera work! Thanks! This ship (and others) was hired by the Canadian forces to bring war brides and babies (me!) to Canada in 1946. No, it didn't bring back any memories, sadly.
2.33 a nice silhouette of, I think, a Gearing class destroyer.
wonder what ship that was that looks burnt out, at 3:53?
Yeah ikr
The burned out ship was originally the Furness, Withy & Co. liner Monarch of Bermuda from 1931. This is from 'Great Passenger Ships of the World" volume 3, by Arnold Kludas: "During renovationwork at Newcastle for return to passenger service she was almost completely destroyed by fire. The Ministry of Transport bought the wreck and had it rebuilt by Thornycroft, Southampton, as an emigrant carrier..." In 1949 the Monarch of Bermuda became the New Australia with a new and far different appearance. In 1958 she became the Arkadia under the Greek flag and after modernization was in service until 1966. The Monarch of Bermuda/New Australia/Arkadia had quite a career!
@@andrewbrendan1579 thank you!
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At 2:25 docked in front of the SS AMERICA 1939.
I wonder what the horn sounds like on this ship
It was deep and noisy. When it blew you felt it in you insides.