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Building the RMS Mauretania, (1907-1935)

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A very evocative and haunting part of the project for me was this recording of her steam whistle…courtesy of Peter Newall, author of Mauretania: Triumph & Resurrection found on Warsash Nautical Books & Mainmast Books. They have an impressive line of Nautical themed books covering just about everything ship related.

The fascinating subject of dazzle painting of ships is worthy of further investigation…

Here are some interesting links:
Dazzle and Drab by By Martin Quinn

Dazzle camo by Roy R. Behrens

I must extend my thanks to the many people who assisted me—but in the main to:

John Haynes-who generously supplied me with his entire ‘Mauretania model folder’- containing a complete photo survey of the 1/48 builders model, Swan-Hunter plans and the results of his detailed research and analysis of the upper deck fittings.

Eric Longo, who was great mentor for this project, researched aspects of her history and generously supplied me with large format scans of many rare photographs from his private collections which greatly helped with much detail work.

Miles McLaughling , without whose generous assistance I could not possibly have built the model, as he tirelessly scoured archives for rare and incredibly helpful photos of the ship in her dazzle scheme

Interesting on-line RMS Mauretania reading is to be had here:

RMS Mauretania (1906) From Wikipedia

Maritime Quest Mauretania page

The main useful book publications were:
Liners in Battledress, David Williams
Great Liners at War, Stephen Harding
Liners -- Hulton Getty Pictures collection, Robert Fox
Mauretania-Pride of theTyne, Ken Smith
Mauretania – Shipbuilder Reprint, Mark D Warren
The first Great Ocean Liners, William H Miller Jr.
Model Shipwright Magazine #28 (McNarry model) Conway Maritime Press
Mauretania - Triumph and Resurrection, Peter Newall
Naval camouflage, David Williams
Picture History of the Cunard line-1840-1990, William H. Miller Jr.