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...that a generation of Cunard publicity for the now scrapped Mauretania should not be wasted, British Board of Trade officials were besought last week for permission to re-name the coastal paddlewheel steamer Queen the Mauretania. The paddlewheeler's owners are Royal Mail Steam Packet Co. Ltd., large stockholder in Cunard White Star. Shrewd, the Royal Mail hopes by calling the boat Mauretania to have the name available for a sister to the Queen Mary should one ever be built...
Month ago, the Cunard White Star liner Laurentic suffered a minor collision as she left England on a Mediterranean cruise, had to transfer her passengers to the Doric of the same line. Last week, this 16,484-ton vessel was churning blithely back from Gibraltar in a woolly fog 36 miles off Portugal. Since it was 3:15 a. m., most of her crew and passengers were asleep. Suddenly, they were jolted wide awake as the squat French freighter Formigny plowed into the Doric, dealt her an 18-ft. gash at the waterline below the bridge. Speedily, Captain Grieg issued...
Most famed of all Cunard White Star liners was the lithe, speedy Mauretania, scrapped four months ago for economy. Scarcely less famed is the Cunard White Star Olympic, which last week started over the same course to the junk pile because she, too, has outlived her usefulness...
Abruptly taken off the sailing schedule last April, the angular old four-stacker has since been held at Southampton in hopes that Italy would buy her for a troop ship. Last week Italy did buy the Hamburg-American Resolute, showed no interest in the Olympic. Regretfully, Cunard White Star officials invited prospective buyers of her fittings, put her on the scrapping list...
...anthems of all time, the name of Thomas Brigham Bishop has been practically forgotten in the annals of U. S. music. To see that he gets his just due from history is the purpose of an elderly New Yorker named John James MacIntyre, now a publicity man for the Cunard White Star Line, once a struggling songwriter and publisher whom Bishop befriended. This week marks the 100th anniversary of Thomas Bishop's birth. Loyal John MacIntyre refused to let the occasion pass without telling his friend's life-story...