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Mauretania mania.
Mauretania madness sweeps Amble again. Families split, neighbour against neighbour. Uncertainty and doubt reign supreme. Are we actually the kindliest port and not the friendliest port we have believed all these years? Have we been lied to? How can this be?
Anyway, in Newcastle to pick up 'swag' yesterday and popped into the Discovery museum to have a look at what they have on Parsons the turbine builder for a little medal related project. Completely missed all their Parsons stuff , apart from the Turbinia of course, which you can't miss, but did find their model of the Mauretania. It is worth a look in just for that model, massive and impressive to say the least. |
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Now there is a period photo of the Mauretania moored at Wallsend with the Turbinia along side. If you've seen the Turbinia in the flesh , you get the scale of the Mauretania from this one.
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Interestingly, they have included a matching scale model of the Turbinia in the Mauretania case:
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Forward anchor chains on model (image of the real chain to follow below)
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Bridge of the Mauretania, Famous Amble telegraph sent from behind one of those three doors?
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Yes, sorry to cause so much angst! To be honest, I thought the Friendliest Port would win the day, but it looks like Kindliest Port is nudging ahead on The Ambler's poll.
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Very nice artifact. Thanks for sharing. At least the Mauretania survived the great war unlike her sister ship the Lusitania. Mauretania did have plenty war service and was a dazzle ship as well. |
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After the Lusitania was sunk the Germans struck a chunky iron commemorative / propaganda medal . The British copied this as an anti-'German Kultur' propaganda medal and sold vast numbers.
Obverse shows 'Death' dishing out tickets at the Cunard New York office, reverse shows armaments slipping of the deck of the sinking Lusitania. A common medal; always have one or two coming and going. |
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I've got this in the junk box as well. The new Mauretania was built in Liverpool in 1939. A medal was struck to commemorate the launch of the new ship, made in copper from the old RMS Mauretania.
[A little bit of Mauretania still in Amble] |
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