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RMS Mauretania (1907) : queen of the ocean / David F. Hutchings.

by Hutchings, David F.

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The History Press, 2019.

623.82432 H973r

Mauretania (Ship) -- History.

Ocean liners -- Great Britain -- History.

9780750985840 (hc.)

Alternate title:

Mauretania (1907) : queen of the ocean

Queen of the ocean

312 p. : ill.; 23 x 26 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 310-312).

Introduction -- Prologue -- From Cook to 'Kitchener' -- 'A heroic effort of will' -- An experiment in wax and wood: the perfect fusion of art and science -- From the ways to the waters -- Liverpool, north about -- 'Behold a city on th' inconstant billows' -- 'Long have I sighed for a calm' -- Fishguard -- Triumphs and tragedies: the end of an Edwardian dream -- War comes to the Mauretania -- 'Playing the game' -- 'Hush the sounds of war' -- 'Star of the sea most radiant!' -- Oil on troubled waters -- Mauretania the Magnificent! -- 'We got it!' -- 'Waves like a rolling trench' -- 'The surge's angry shock' -- '5,300 miles for $155' -- 'Everybody sings when the boat pulls out' -- Her course is run.

Built for the North Atlantic, the Mauretania was created to regain the fabled Blue Ribband that had been taken from Great Britain by a rapidly expanding and imperially ambitious Germany. Although she and her sister ship, the Lusitania, did regain the Ribband, speed was only part of the reason of why she had been constructed; rapid conversion into an armed merchant cruiser in time of war was a role never realised as, when war finally came, this Cunard liner became a fast troop ship and a hospital ship. This well-researched book tells the fascinating story of the Mauretania.

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