Name/Title
RMS Mauretania - Cunard White Star LineEntry/Object ID
K0001.030.039Scope and Content
Folder contains nine items:
1. Temporary Plan of Tourist Class for RMS Mauretania: multi-page folded brochure dated Dec. 1938, shows plans of each of the Main, A, Promenade, B,C and D decks. Contains print of Mauretania underway, and title page which gives a "manifesto" for the style of cruising the Cunard White Star Line intends the Mauretania to facilitate. Brochure is specified for agents' office use only. Mauretania referred to throughout as "SS Mauretania"
2.Temporary Plan of Third Class Passenger Accommodations: multi-page, folded brochure dated Jan. 1939, shows deckplans for Mauretania's Sports, Main, A, B and C decks. Title page advertises the quality of the food served to third class passengers and provides three, small sample menus. Centerfold features print of Mauretania underway. Specified for agents' office use only. Ship referred to, throughout, as "SS Mauretania"
3.Duplicate of Item 2. (above)
4.Temporary Plan of Cabin Class Accomodations: dated Jan. 1939, shows deckplans for each of the Sun Deck, Promenade Deck, Main Deck, A, B and Sports Decks. Centerfold features print of Mauretania underway, overlain by a "fact box" detailing physical statistics of the ship, and a "features box" which details the planned, luxurious appointments for those parts of the ship which serve exclusively cabin class passengers. Brochure is specified for agents' office use only. This brochure has a more informative and patriotic tone than the similar others in this folder. Centerfold stresses that the Mauretania is the largest ship ever built in England. Ship referred to as SS Mauretania throughout.
5. Temporary Plan of First Class Accomodations: multi-page folded brochure dated Nov. 1947 shows deckplans for each of the Sun, Promenade, Main, A, B, E and Sports Decks. Centerfold features print of Mauretania underway. Each page of the brochure promiently features the Cunard White Star Line crest. Ship referred to as RMS Mauretania throughout. Cunard White Star Line uses a centennial slogan under their name on the brochure's cover. Brochure is not explicitly specified for agents' sole use, but does feature a blank box for an agent's imprint.
6.Temporary Cruise Plan: multi-page folded brochure dated Oct. 1948, shows deckplans for each of the Sun, Promenade, Main, A,B,C, E and D decks. Single photo on each page provides an example of the appointments for a room or facility located on the deck for which the deckplan depicts. Centerfold features a photo of the Mauretania underway with pennants. Title page features a photo of passengers and a paragraph lauding the cruising-lifestyle of those who patronize Cunard White Star Line. Brochure features updated, more ornate, CWSL crest, and photos on back and front of the ship underway.
7. RMS Mauretania Sunshine Cruises Winter 1950, single-page folded, color brochure details itineraries to ports of call: New York, (port of departure) Nassau, St. Thomas, Martinique, Barbados, Port of Spain, La Guarira, Curacao, Cristobal and Havana. Rates and general information given. Several, (apparently hand-tinted) photos of ports of call featured. Cover features a stylized print of a watercolor depicting the Gulf of Mexico and the Carribean , with Mauretania underway, depicted in conventional style, in the foreground.
8.RMS Mauretania Christmas Cruise: Single page, triple-fold bicolor brochure, undated. Cover depicts Mauretania underway, shown from above. A stylized tropical flower is depicted in bottom left foreground, while snow flakes and poinsettias surround the brochure's title. Left lower cover features marketing offer, (the starting price for the 11 day Carribean cruise). Inside features pricing, general information and several small black and white photos of appointments and ports of call.
9. "RMS Mauretania": undated, color promotional folio bound by ribbon with embossed, red cover. Cover features the modernised (ca. 1948) Cunard-White Star line crest, embossed. First page folds out to reveal print of an oil painting of Mauretania by Frank H. Mason. Brochure written in editorial style by H.T.W. Bousfield, (piece entitled "Transportation is Civilisation".) High quality black and white photographs of interior appointments interspersed througought editorial matter. Also featured: color prints of pieces of original art found aboard the RMS Mauretania.Collection
Kingsbury Maritime Ephemera CollectionLexicon
Nomenclature 4.0
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Folder, FileNomenclature Primary Object Term
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Written Communication T&ENomenclature Category
Category 06: Tools & Equipment for CommunicationSearch Terms
Cruise Liners, Cruise Ships, Passenger Liners, Cunard Line, RMS Mauretania, Passenger Accomodation, Passenger Activities, Shipbuilding, Shipboard Life, SS Mauretania, Deck Plans, Cunard White Star Line, White Star Line, World CruisesArchive Details
Date(s) of Creation
1938 - 1950
