by Siân Evans
11. Violet Jessop, Titanic Survivor, p. 21.
12. Sowerbutts, op.cit., p. 210.
13. ‘Lily Pons sings as gale rocks giant liner’, Evening News, 11 April 1938
14. White Star Magazine, May 1927, p. 224.
15. The Queen Mary: Greatest Ocean Liner, BBC 2
16. Ashley Halsey III, ‘The Queen Mary Saved Hundreds of Jews from the Nazis, even as St Louis was Turned Away’, Washington Post, 21 September 2019.
17. Sowerbutts, op.cit., p. 198.
18. Dorothy Scobie, A Stewardess Rings a Bell, Stylus, 1990, p. 84.
Chapter 9: Women under Fire
1. Edith Sowerbutts, Memoirs of a British Seaman, p.198
2. Ibid., p. 213.
3. Ibid., p. 4.
4. Maida Nixson, Ring Twice for the Stewardess, John Long, 1954 p. 38.
5. Ibid., p. 130.
6. Sowerbutts, Memoirs of a British Seaman, p. 12.
7. Ibid., p. 16.
8. Nancy Cunard, untitled manuscript in the form of a journal, kept from 31 July to 21 August 1941. The Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center Library, University of Texas at Austin.
9. Ibid.
10. ‘Woman Ship’s Officer: She Escaped Bombs and Torpedoes’ Evening Standard, LSE Archives, June 1940.
11. Anon., ‘A Woman on the High Seas’, unattributed article in Woman Engineer magazine, 1941.
12. Sowerbutts, op.cit., p. 42.
13. ‘Forgotten Women of the Sea’, Daily Herald, 4 June 1942.
14. ‘Women in Shipbuilding’, The Times, 16 June 1943.
15. Martha Gellhorn, ‘The First Hospital Ship’, in The Face of War, Granta Books, 1998, p. 119.
16. Nixson, op.cit., p. 149.
17. ‘Cunard Pays Tribute to War Service”, unattributed article in The Maritime Executive 24.5.2015
Chapter 10: Romance, Repatriation and Recovery
1. Sylvia Duncan and Peter Duncan, The Sea My Steed, Robert Hale, 1960, p. 14.
2. Interview, Southampton City Council Oral History Unit.
3. Maida Nixson, Ring Twice for the Stewardess, p. 171.
4. Ibid., p. 174.
5. Duncan and Duncan, op.cit., p. 150.
6. New York Times, 17 December 1949.
7. Elsa Maxwell, Elsa Maxwell’s Own Story, Little, Brown, 1954, pp. 299–300.
8. The Golden Age of Liners, BBC 4. Presented by Paul Atterbury and made for the Timeshift series, first broadcast on BBC 4 on 22 October 2009.
9. Martha Gellhorn, Travels with Myself and Another, p. 286.
Conclusion
1. Edith Sowerbutts, Memoirs of a British Seaman, p. 5.
2. Grace Brewster Murray Hopper, Address given at Trinity College, Washington, USA. Reported in Time, 22 June 1987.
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Abdication:
Act of Succession, 1701:
Adelphi Hotel, Liverpool:
Admiral Scheer, The:
Adriatic, The:
African-Americans:
Aguila, The:
Air France:
Air hostesses:
Air travel:
Alaunia, The:
Alcott, Louisa M.:
Algonquin set:
Alington 3rd Baron, Napier George Henry Sturt:
Alington, Dr Cyril Alington:
Allan, Lady:
Allan, Patricia:
Altenberg, Germany:
An American in Paris:
Anchor Line:
Andes, The:
Anglo-German Agreement (1935):
Anschluss (the Annexation of Austria by Germany, 1938):
Antheil, George:
Anti-Semitism:
Antwerp:
Aquitania, The:
Arabic, The:
Arandora Star, The:
Argentina, The:
Arlen, Michael:
Armistice:
Art Deco:
Art of the Deal, The:
Ashley, Laura:
Astaire, Fred and Adele:
Astor, Lady Nancy, MP:
Astor, Sir Waldorf:
Athenia, The:
Atlantic weather (see also Storms):
; ‘Atlantic Ferry, the’:
Atterbury, Paul:
Audacious, The:
Aurania, The:
Ausonia, The:
Austin, Janet:
B
Babies born while on board:
Baker, Josephine:
Baldwin, Stanley:
Ballrooms:
Baltic, The:
Banana Dance:
Bankhead, Tallulah:
Barbereens, see lady hairdresser:
Barnard, Bill:
Bates, Sir Percy, Chairman of Cunard:
Bathing attendants:
Baths, seawater:
Battle of Britain:
Battle of the Atlantic:
BBC, The (British Broadcasting Corporation):
Beagley, Heather:
Beaton, Cecil:
Beauty therapists:
Beauty salons:
Beaverbrook, Lord:
Bell, Nancy:
Bérard, Bébé:
Berengaria, The (formerly Imperator):
Bickerton, Trix:
Bisset, Commodore:
Bird, Marian ‘May’:
Blackmail:
Blériot, M. Louis:
Bloomingdale’s, New York:
Blue Star Line:
Blue Riband:
Board of Trade:
Boeing
Bonita, The:
Booth, Sir Alfred (Chairman of Cunard):
Booze cruise:
Boston:
Bothnia, SS:
Bouillon:
Bow, Clara:
Bowes-Lyon, Elizabeth (see also Duchess of York, and Queen Elizabeth):
Boyer, Charles:
Bremen:
Bremen, The:
Bride, Harold:
Bridge (see also Card-games):
Bright Young Things:
Britannia, HMS:
Britannic, HMHS:
British Empire:
British Empire Exhibition (1924):
British Union of Fascists: