King George V and Queen Mary on the RMS Maurentania
Travel
As my Queen Mary post suggested, I’ve always been obsessed with early 20th century ocean liners. So I may get more than a little excited when a photo appears that I haven’t seen before.
Catherine Jones shared this image in the Liverpool Echo:
King George V and Queen Mary board RMS Mauretania in Liverpool on July 11, 1913. The first visit to Cunard by a reigning monarch. Credit: Cunard Archive, University of Liverpool Library
You can tell it’s the first Mauretania and not Lusitania from a few different things, but most easily by the cowl-shaped vents. Lusitania had hinged canisters.
