Showing posts with label RMS MAURETANIA (Passenger liner). Show all posts
Showing posts with label RMS MAURETANIA (Passenger liner). Show all posts

Tuesday, November 05, 2019

New York passenger shipping 1957


The famous Port of New York passenger ship docks on the Hudson River, back in 1957 showing seven transatlantic liners: RMS BRITANNIC, Cunard White Star, the magnificent QUEEN MARY of 1936, the RMS MAURETANIA of 1939, all Cunarders,  the French Line FLANDRE, later to become Costa Line's CARLA C in 1968, followed by Greek Line's flagship OLYMPIA, the UNITED STATES and one of the American Export Line's sisters, the CONSTITUTION or INDEPENDENCE.
Quando era miúdo e via este tipo de fotografias sobre os cais de passageiros de Nova Iorque imaginava uma grandiosidade que mais tarde, quando estive no porto de Nova Iorque pela primeira vez, não encontrei. Um conjunto de navios como o da fotografia faria com que ficasse com os dedos a doerem de tanto disparar os obturadores das minhas Nikons, como me aconteceu, por exemplo, das primeiras vezes que estive no Pireu. Mas o Hudson e os seus cais, a sensação que me deram, foi que quase caberiam na nossa Doca de Alcântara. Tenho visitado muitos portos por esse mundo, mas não há muitos com a grandeza física - trabalho da natureza, ou do Criador, conforme as sensibilidades - daí a importância de não se deixar destruir mais o Porto de Lisboa face aos apetites alarves do imobiliário e da sede de poder da Câmara Municipal de Lisboa. Tem-se vindo a matar o nosso belo porto de Lisboa.
Photographed from the Bill Miller collection.Texto e imagens /Text and images copyright L.M.Correia. Favor não piratear. Respeite o meu trabalho / No piracy, please. For other posts and images, check our archive at the right column of the main page. Click on the photos to see them enlarged. Thanks for your visit and comments. Luís Miguel Correia

Tuesday, December 13, 2011

The New MAURETANIA


The New MAURETANIA a triumph in modern shipbuilding - First sailing JUNE 17 - so Cunard White Star Limited of Liverpool announced in their stationery.
In fact the new MAURETANIA did sail on her maiden voyage to New York in 17 June 1939. Two other large new passenger liners with maiden voyages scheduled for that ill fated summer of 1939, the Royal Mail Line's ANDES and  Cie Sud-Atlantique's PASTEUR did not make it: ANDES would have sailed on her maiden voyage on 26 September and the French PASTEUR on 16 September, but war changer it all.
My dear friend Eugénio Cavalheiro considered a crossing to New York to attend the EXPO and so contacted Cunard in May but in the end did not go. The reply from Cunard is now a piece of memorabilia in my collection.
RMS MAURETANIA served as a troop transport during WW2 and returned to Cunard Atlantic service and cruising. She was scrapped in 1965. Post card and photo from the Luís Miguel Correia collection.
Texto e imagens /Text and images copyright L.M.Correia. Favor não piratear. Respeite o meu trabalho / No piracy, please. For other posts and images, check our archive at the right column of the main page. Click on the photos to see them enlarged. Thanks for your visit and comments. Luís Miguel Correia