Category: RMS Mauretania, sailed March 4, 1911

Categories: RMS Mauretania (1906) | 1910s Sailings


The Mauretania departed Liverpool on 4 March 1911, stopped in Queenstown, Cork, Ireland on 5 March 1911, where it picked up 1312 sacks of mail, including several thousand boxes of shamrocks being sent to New York for St. Patrick's Day, "Shamrock for Overseas Irishmen," Dundee Courier, 6 Mar 1911, p. 5, col. 2; digital images, The British Newspaper Archive (http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk : accessed 3 Mar 2016), Image © D.C.Thomson & Co. Ltd. Image created courtesy of THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD. and arrived in New York a day late on 10 March 1911.

This was considered one of the roughest passages the Mauretania ever made. Newspapers at the time reported that "The great liner encountered mountainous seas on Monday midnight, and her boat deck bulwarks were bent and twisted, and fifty feet of the forward promenade rail was destroyed by eighty-foot waves. The wheelhouse windows were smashed, and passengers flung from their berths."

  • "Mauretania's Rough Passage," Nottingham Evening Post, 11 Mar 1911, p. 5, col. 3; digital images, The British Newspaper Archive (http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk : accessed 3 Mar 2016), Image © Local World Limited. Image created courtesy of THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD.
  • "Atlantic Storm," Shields Daily Gazette, 11 Mar 1911, p. 3, col. 1; digital images, The British Newspaper Archive (http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk : accessed 3 Mar 2016), With thanks to South Tyneside Libraries and Information. Digitised by Findmypast Newspaper Archive Limited. All rights reserved.
  • "New York, Passenger Lists, 1820-1957," online images, Ancestry (www.ancestry.com : accessed 14 Feb 2010), manifest, S.S. Mauretania, 10 Mar 1911; citing Passenger and Crew Lists of Vessels Arriving at New York, New York, 1897-1957, Microfilm Publication M237, 675 rolls; Records of the U.S. Customs Service, Record Group 36; National Archives at Washington, D.C; Microfilm Roll: Roll 1637; Line: 19; Page Number: 68.
  • "Outgoing American Mails," Dundee Courier, 2 Mar 1911, p. 2, col. 3; digital images, The British Newspaper Archive (http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk : accessed 3 Mar 2016), Image © D.C.Thomson & Co. Ltd. Image created courtesy of THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD.
  • "Departures for America," Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser, 6 Mar 1911, p. 9, col. 3; digital images, The British Newspaper Archive (http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk : accessed 3 Mar 2016), Image © Local World Limited. Image created courtesy of THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD.
  • "Terrific Gale," Sheffield Daily Telegraph, 11 Mar 1911, p. 9, col. 3; digital images, The British Newspaper Archive (http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk : accessed 3 Mar 2016), Image © Johnston Press plc. Image created courtesy of THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD.
  • "Liner Has Rough Voyage," Belleville News Democrat, 11 Mar 1911, p. 6, col. 3; digital images, America's GenealogyBank (www.genealogybank.com : accessed 13 Mar 2016), Historical Newspapers.

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