Posted by James Pepper on July 30, 2000 at 12:24:46:
In Reply to: Questions on 2 liners... posted by Mark Logan on July 30, 2000 at 11:25:28:
The Mauritania is one of the most documented ships. Go to the Debris Field website and check out the Articles Section, I listed an index to the journal "Engineering" which has the names and dates of all of the articles in that journal relating to ships during the times they were constructed and delivered to the shipping companies. The 1907 editions on the Mauritania and Lusitania are the most complete documentation of ships I have ever seen, almost every room in the ship is photographed and the diagrams, plans and schematics are detailed, from complete plans of the ships all the way down to the bollards on the decks.
Also there is a book by Sir Archibald Spicer Hurd called "A Merchant Fleet at War" which was published in 1917, 1918 and 1920, most likely the 1920 edition. And it has colored, tinted photographs and paintings of these ships in their dazzle camouflage. So If you want to see the color of the ships, made by the people who painted them in the first place, check out this book, made by Cunard just after the war. He also did other books on the various fleets during the war.
Also check out the posts on the Debris Field (link on main page here) since it has been more involved in the Mauritania and Lusitania. There is also a link on that page in a posting I had on World War One resources that, I think was at the Imperial War Museum, which had paintings of the ships and particularly the funnel colors of each shipping line, with their flags.
James Pepper