Comments by "Andrew Brendan" (@andrewbrendan1579) on "What Happened to RMS Mauretania 2?" video.

  1. Wonderful video -- as always! I read "Captain of the Queens" by Commodore Sir Harry Grattidge and he wrote about people enjoying and maybe even preferring the smaller, "club-like" atmosphere of the second Mauretania. One of those people was movie actress Lana Turner. It may have been on the Mauretania that women passengers would copy the hairstyles Miss Turner had during the crossing. One time the Commodore asked the actress to change her hair-do for when she went to dinner. Lana Turner arrived for dinner with a new "do" and other women had their hair done as the actress had worn it earlier in the day. The Commodore thought it was a good joke. Some of the lady passengers did not share in his amusement... Off-topic, but I like pens as well as liners. At 9:40 during the segment about Lord Haha we see a young woman writing with what appears to be a fancy fountain pen. I'd like to have a good look at that pen and I wonder if it still exists somewhere. Too, if my memory is right, Lord Haha was later hanged for treason. Maybe someone else can add a comments. P.S. --- I enjoyed seeing a clip at 15:10 from "The Last Voyage".
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  2. That's a great idea of a Mauretania/Britanis. This is just a guess on my part, but I'm wondering if Chandris chose the smaller liner that had been the Monterey because the Cunard liner would have proven to eventually be too large of a ship for the immigrant service that would eventually taper off and end and with a future in cruising being unsure at that time. Maybe the Mauretania was just more ship than Chandris wanted to take on; one big (and really not that big) liner being enough for them. I've also wondered about the Dominion Monarch going to Chandris, but again the D.M. might have been a little too large and then there would be the cost and trouble of turning a lot of cargo space into passenger accommodation. It's fun to speculate on what might have been. I like to say that one of my favorite games is Ocean Liner What-If!
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