Hello, I'm a new member and it's my "maiden voyage", so to speak, on the board, so please be gentle with me!!!
I wonder if anyone can help me with a tale my father used to tell me about the Maury's whistles ending up being redeployed as the hooter for the Appleby-Frodingham steelworks at Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, England. The works were being extended in the mid-late 1930's, a period which corresponds with Maury's scrapping in 1935. Also, as the Scunthorpe works was at that time taking in scrap steel, I have often wondered if the Mauretania was, in her dismembered state, taken from the breakers at Rosyth, Scotland, to the Scunthorpe furnaces. It's a gruesome thought for a lover of Maury like myself, but I realise that the steel of her had to go somewhere, and in a way it would be kind of gratifying to think that she ended up in the steelworks of the town in which I was born.
I have always been fascinated by this tale, hope anyone out there can confirm whether of not it might just have been an urban myth and put this poor girl out of her misery!
All the best,
Lucy
I wonder if anyone can help me with a tale my father used to tell me about the Maury's whistles ending up being redeployed as the hooter for the Appleby-Frodingham steelworks at Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, England. The works were being extended in the mid-late 1930's, a period which corresponds with Maury's scrapping in 1935. Also, as the Scunthorpe works was at that time taking in scrap steel, I have often wondered if the Mauretania was, in her dismembered state, taken from the breakers at Rosyth, Scotland, to the Scunthorpe furnaces. It's a gruesome thought for a lover of Maury like myself, but I realise that the steel of her had to go somewhere, and in a way it would be kind of gratifying to think that she ended up in the steelworks of the town in which I was born.
I have always been fascinated by this tale, hope anyone out there can confirm whether of not it might just have been an urban myth and put this poor girl out of her misery!
All the best,
Lucy