orangeshipper: Can’t find decent pics of first class cabins, but here’s some public rooms to whet the appetite… Staircase: Lounge: Garden/Palm lounge: Dining Saloon: Swimming pool: She also had a theatre/cinema which sadly wasn’t added until 1934…
The racehorse Papyrus enjoyed VIP treatment on the Aquitania. The winner of the 1923 Derby was housed in a special stable, padded with air cushions and with a floor of wooden battens to help him to remain on his feet if the ship rolled. As well as a vet, stable …
Aboard RMS Aquitania
“New York, January 8 – Omaha, William Woodward’s 1935 three-year-old turf champion, was booked for passage on the Aquitania, sailing for England at 10 p.m. tonight”
4-year-old Triple Crown champion Omaha boards the RMS Aquitania en route to England, where the turf-leaning colt competed in a handful of important stakes races before turning up lame and being retired. Amongst his triumphs were wins in the Victor Wild Stakes and the two mile Queen’s Plate, both at Kempton Park. He further finished a close second in both the Ascot Gold Cup (to Quashed) and the Princess of Wales Stakes (to Taj Akbar)
Bar staff on the Queen Mary. A few years ago I bought a whole box full of paperwork to do with this ship at an auction.
Those were the days….
The Golden Age of ocean liners….dramatically depicted here by the iconic Cunard Line ships RMS Queen Mary and RMS Queen Elizabeth….set against the also-iconic Chrysler Building in New York City.
(Postcard circa 1938.)
Those were the days….before today’s instant communications, always-connected, WiFi/Cellular/Satellite/Internet, megabits per second, fast-paced world.
Those were the days….when one went to sea….and forgot the rest of the world for a few days. News, if any, came via a telegram! STOP. Just a few words per minute….STOP….from the outside world. STOP.
Those were the days….a Golden Age!
Perhaps, in some ways, a little more gentle….a little more human.
