Hi Mike,
Many thanks for the kind words. I was writing a book as you know a few years ago, but found the publisher...uh...unworkable and quit. I was pleased to turn all my research, photographs and materials over to someone writing what ought to be the definitive volume on this great liner. I agree, the Mauretania comes up short. Very few books with accurate data have been published in the last years. Once this article is updated and I finish tweaking the color glass plate photograph I was asked to create for Jim's voluminous Lusitania article, I will start work on color renderings of her two dazzle schemes, port and starboard patterns for each, from the original Wlkinson plans.
I do plan a small book, in future, describing her last years 1933-34. Based on a detailed cruise diary I have and illustrated with about 80 unpublished candids and rich with evocative mementos from this period such as table number cards, wine labels, pressed flowers and so on, I hope this book will be of interest.
Best always,
Eric
Many thanks for the kind words. I was writing a book as you know a few years ago, but found the publisher...uh...unworkable and quit. I was pleased to turn all my research, photographs and materials over to someone writing what ought to be the definitive volume on this great liner. I agree, the Mauretania comes up short. Very few books with accurate data have been published in the last years. Once this article is updated and I finish tweaking the color glass plate photograph I was asked to create for Jim's voluminous Lusitania article, I will start work on color renderings of her two dazzle schemes, port and starboard patterns for each, from the original Wlkinson plans.
I do plan a small book, in future, describing her last years 1933-34. Based on a detailed cruise diary I have and illustrated with about 80 unpublished candids and rich with evocative mementos from this period such as table number cards, wine labels, pressed flowers and so on, I hope this book will be of interest.
Best always,
Eric
