by Siân Evans
Brittain, Vera:
Broadway:
Brooker, Michael:
Brooks, Louise:
Brothels:
Bushell, Arthur:
Butt, Dame Clara:
Buyers:
Bywater, Hector C.:
C
Caillot, Maria:
Caledonian Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Dundee:
Cameronia, The:
Campania, the:
Canada:
Canada Dry ginger ale:
Canadian House of Commons:
Canadian Immigration Service:
Canadian-Pacific Gazette:
Canadian-Pacific Line:
Canberra, The:
Captain’s role:
Captain’s table, dining at the:
Cardiff:
Card games:
Card-sharps:
Carinthia, The:
Carmania, The:
Caronia, The:
Caronia II:
Carpathia, The:
Casey, Miss M., stenographer:
Celebrities:
Chamberlain, Neville:
Chamber pots:
Chaperones (see also conductresses):
Chaplin, Charlie:
Charlot, André:
Charlot’s Musical Review:
Cherbourg:
Changi Jail:
Chief steward:
Chief stewardess:
Children as passengers:
Children’s Overseas Reception Board (CORB):
Chumley’s:
Churchill, Winston:
City of Benares, The:
Claridge’s Hotel:
Cliveden:
Clydebank:
Cobh, Eire (formerly Queenstown):
Cocaine:
Cocktails:
Cochran, Charles:
Coffins:
Cohen, Harriet:
Cole, Miss J.S.:
Colefax, Sibyl:
Colette, Sidonie-Gabrielle:
Collier’s:
Commercial flight – see air travel:
Concerts on ships:
Conductress:
Connelly, Marc:
Cooper, Gary:
Cooper, Lady Diana (née Manners):
Cornish, Mary:
Coronation (1937):
Compagnie General Transatlantique (aka CGT, or French Line):
‘Company widow’:
Cosmopolitan magazine:
Cousteau, Jacques:
Coward, Noël:
Crosby, Bing:
Cross-dressing:
Crowder, Henry:
Cruise hostess:
Cruises, leisure:
Cruises, round the world:
Cuban Missile Crisis:
Cult of the Body:
Cunard Building:
Cunard, company:
Cunard Daily Bulletin, The:
Cunard, Emerald:
‘Cunard Feet’:
Cunard Lady Shell Workers:
Cunard Line (staff magazine):
Cunard, Nancy:
Cunard National Aircraft Factory Number
Cunard National Shell Factory:
Cunard Orchestra:
Cunard, Samuel:
Cunard White Star Limited merger:
Cunard Yanks:
Curzon, Lord George, Viceroy of India:
Customs (more)
Cuxhaven:
D
Dali, Salvador:
Daily Chronicle, The:
Daily Express, The:
Daily Telegraph, The:
Dancing on ships:
Davies, Marion:
Davies, Phyllis:
Davis, Arthur:
Davis Thomas, Ann:
Dawkins, Mrs Emily:
Dawson, Lilian:
D-Day:
Deaths at sea:
Debrett’s:
Deck games:
Deck Officers:
Defence of the Realm Act (DORA):
De Havilland Comet:
Delafield, E. M. (aka Edmée Elizabeth Monica Dashwood):
Dentures:
Desert Island Discs:
Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung:
Deutsche Seeman, The:
Diary of a Provincial Lady, The:
Dickens, Charles:
Dietrich, Marlene:
Diggle, Captain:
Dining at sea:
Diseases:
Disney, Walt:
Ditty-bag:
Doctor, ship’s:
Dogs:
Donaldson Line:
Dorchester Hotel:
Douglas DC-8:
Dowse, Mrs E. A:
Drake, Captain Thomas:
Drawing room:
Dressmakers:
Drummond, Victoria, MBE:
Dudley, Caroline:
Dudley Ward, Freda:
Duff Cooper, Alfred:
Duff-Gordon, Lady Lucy:
Duff-Gordon, Sir Cosmo:
Duggan, Grace:
Duke, Doris:
Dunkirk, evacuation of:
Duveen, Joseph:
E
Edward VIII (see also Prince of Wales and Duke of Windsor):
Einstein, Albert and Elsa:
Eisenhower, General:
Ellington, Duke:
Ellis Island:
Empress of Britain, The:
Engineering department:
English Channel, the:
‘English Comet, The’ – see Hilda James:
Epstein, Charlotte (‘Eppie’):
Eros, The:
Eton:
Europa, The:
Evans, Margaret Rosina:
Evening Standard, The:
Extase:
F
Fairbanks Jr., Douglas:
Fancy-dress parties:
Fashion industry:
Fellowes, Daisy:
Fellowes-Gordon, Dorothy, aka ‘Dickie’:
Figurehead, carved:
First class:
Fitzgerald, Ella:
Folies Bergères, The:
Fort Belvedere:
France, The:
Franconia, The:
Frahm’s anti-rolling tanks:
Franco, General:
Franz Ferdinand, Archduke:
Freeman, Captain:
French Line (Compagnie General Transatlantique, or CGT):
Furness, Viscountess Thelma (née Morgan):
Furness, Viscount Marmaduke:
G
‘Gangplank Willies’:
Gambling:
Garberowitz, Mrs Rachel:
Garbo, Greta:
Gardenias:
‘Gelley girls’:
Gellhorn, Martha:
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes:
George V, King:
George VI, King (see also York, Duke of):
George Washington, The:
Georgic, The:
Gershwin, George:
Gigolos:
Gilbert, Margot:
The Girl on the Boat, by P. G. Wodehouse, 1924:
GI Brides – see War Brides
GIs - General Infantrymen:
Glasgow:
Glendinning, Kathleen:
Glyn, Elinor:
Good Housekeeping Institute:
Gosling, Mr, Victualling Superintendent, White Star Line:
Grand Duchess Augusta of Mecklenburg-Strelitz:
Grand Salon (see also Dining):
Grant, Cary:
‘Grande descente, la’:
‘Grease monkeys’ – see engineering department
Great Depression, the:
Great War, the:
Greece, King of:
Green Hat, The:
‘Grey Ghost’ (the Queen Mary in wartime camouflage):
Grigsby, Emilie:
Grill Room:
Grimsby:
Grimmond, Leonard:
Gronow, Chief Officer Stephen:
Guinness, Loel:
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sp; Gymnasium:
H
Haddock, Captain:
Hairdressers:
Halifax, Nova Scotia:
Hall, Henry:
Hamburg:
Hamburg-Amerika Line (HAPAG):
Harding, President:
Harland and Wolff, Belfast:
Harlem, New York:
Harrison, Rose:
Harwich:
RMS Hawke:
Hearst, William Randolph:
Heil Hitler salute:
Hemingway, Ernest:
Hepburn, Katharine:
Hess, Dame Myra:
Hitler, Adolf:
Holland-American Line:
Hollywood:
Homeric, The:
Hope, Bob:
Hopper, United States Rear Admiral Grace Brewster Murray:
Hotel Excelsior, Venice:
Howcroft, Mr and Agnes – see Hilda James:
Hubner, John:
Hughes, Howard:
Hull:
Hull – see also Queen Mary, The:
I
Icebergs:
Île de France:
Imperator, The: see Berengaria, The
Imperial Airways:
Inchcape, Lord, Chairman of P&O:
Innes-Ker, Lord Alistair:
Institute of Marine Engineers:
Immigrants turned back:
Immigration, figures:
Immigration Acts, 1921 and 1924 (USA):
IMM:
Iolaire, The:
Irving, Commodore Robert:
Ismay, Bruce, Chairman of White Star Line:
Italian Lines:
I Visit the Soviets: The Provincial Lady in Russia:
J
James, Hilda:
Jazz:
Jervis Bay, The:
Jessop, Violet:
Jewish passengers:
Jewish prayer room:
John Brown and Company works, Clydebank:
K
Kaiser, The:
Katzenstein, Ludwig:
Kaus, Gina:
Keeley, Jack:
Kennedy, John F.:
Kenney, Jessie:
Kent, Duchess of:
Keptonu Treasure Garter:
Khan, Aga:
Khan, Aly:
Kiesler, Hedwig, aka Hedy Lamarr:
Kiesler, Trude:
Kilburn, Nin:
Kinsale, Eire:
Klingeman, Christiana Wilhelmina Ida:
Knight, Laura:
Kristallnacht:
Kosher food:
L
Laconia, The:
Laconia II, The:
La Cordillera:
Lady assistant pursers (LAPs):
Lady hairdresser:
Ladies’ maids:
Ladies’ ship’ – see also the Aquitania:
‘Lady writers’:
Lalique:
Lamarr, Hedy (née Hedwig Kiesler):
Lang, Fritz:
Lanvin, Jeanne:
Lapland, The:
Lancastria, The:
La Revue Nègre:
Laundry:
Laundresses:
Lawrence, Gertrude:
Lecture tours:
Leisure cruising: (More)
Leviathan, The:
Levy, Peggy:
Lewis, Isle of:
Libraries:
Liberty’s department store, London:
Lido, see Venice
Lifeboats:
Lifeboat Certificate (Board of Trade):
Life jackets:
Lifts:
Lillie, Beatrice:
Lindbergh, Charles:
Little Women:
Liverpool:
Liverpool Evening Post:
Lloyd’s Bravery Medal:
Lockyer, Councillor William:
London Blitz:
London docks:
London Gazette, The:
Loos, Anita:
Luftwaffe:
Luggage:
Lusitania:
Luxury Liner, by Gina Kaus (1932):
M
MacArthur, Douglas:
MacBeth, Clare L.:
Macbeth Mitchell, Sheila:
MacKay, the Hon. Elsie:
MacLeod, Mary Anne:
MGM Studios:
Majestic, The:
Manchester Guardian, The:
Mandl, Fritz:
Manners, Lady Diana - see also Lady Diana Cooper:
Marcel waves:
Marconi Company, the:
Markey, Gene:
Marks and Spencer:
Marshall Plan, The:
Mathieu, Emma May:
Matrons:
Matthews, Miss G., stenographer:
Masseuses:
Maugham, Syrie:
Mauretania, The:
Du Maurier, Gerald:
Du Maurier, Daphne:
Maxwell, Elsa:
Mayer, Louis B.:
McAllister, Hugh – see also Hilda James:
McCrae, ‘Jock’:
McShane, Mrs Mary Jane:
Megantic, The:
Mencken, H.L.:
Menuhin, Yehudi:
Merchant Shipping Act, the (1875):
MI5:
Midland Bank:
Milford-Haven, Lady:
Miller, Dr Adeline Nancy:
Miller, Dr Thomas:
Miracle, The:
Mitchell, Nettie:
Modernism:
Montacute:
Mosley, Sir Oswald:
Morecroft, Fannie May:
Morgan, Thelma – see Furness, Thelma
Morley, Felix:
Moseley, Miss:
Mothersill’s tablets for seasickness:
Mountbatten, Lord Louis:
Mountbatten, Lady Edwina:
Muggeridge, Malcolm:
Munich Agreement:
Munich Crisis:
Murder mystery parties:
Murphy, Aileen:
Mussolini, Benito:
N
‘Naps’ – see Alington 3rd Baron
Nationalism:
National Socialist Party (Nazism):
National Union of Seamen:
Nearer my God to Thee:
New York:
New York Times, The:
New Yorker, The:
Newsreels:
Nicholl, Captain:
Nielsen, Mrs:
Niven, David:
Nixson, Maida:
Noble, Ray:
Norfolk, Ada:
Normandie, The:
Norwich, John Julius:
Novello, Ivor:
Nurseries:
Nursery nurses:
Nurses:
O
Observation Bar:
Ocean Liners exhibition, Victoria and Albert Museum:
Ocean Pictures:
‘Ocean vamps’ – see also ‘sea vamps’:
O’Kane, Miss (aka ‘Miss O’K):
Orchestras on ships:
Orinoco, The:
Olympic Games – Antwerp (1920):
Olympic Games – Paris (1924):
Olympic, The:
Operation Daddy:
Operation Diaper Run:
Owens, Bernard and Dora:
P
Paddock, Miss:
Palmer, Mrs Nan, swimming instructress:
Panama Canal:
Pan American Airlines:
Pankhurst, Emmeline:
Paramount Pictures:
Paris:
Parsons, Louella:
Parthia, The:
Passenger lists:
Pavlova, Anna:
Pearl Harbor:
Peninsula and Oriental Line (see P&O)
‘Perks’ – see also Tips:
Personal hygiene:
Perry, Hetty:
P&O (Peninsula and Oriental Line)
Photographers, ships’:
Photographers, press:
Picasso, Pablo:
Pickford, Mary:
Pickpockets:
Picture brides:
Pierpoint Morgan, J.:
Pig & Whistle (on-board bar for ship’s crew):
Pittsburgh, The:
Poiret, Paul:
De Polignac, Marquis:
Pons, Lily:
Porter, Cole:
Plantano, The:
Plantation Club, New York:
Playrooms:
Plomley, Roy:
Plymouth:
Pregnancies:
Prescott, Miss - assistant to Cunard’s chief lady superintendent:
Prince of Wales. See also Edward VIII and Duke of Windsor:
Prince of Wales, HMS:
Prisoners of War:
Prohibition:
Prostitution:
Provincial Lady Goes Further, The:
Provincial Lady in America, The:
Provisioning – see Victualling
Purser:
Q
Queen Alexandra’s Royal Naval Nursing Service (‘QAs’):
Queen Elizabeth:
Queen Elizabeth, The:
Queen Mary:
Queen Mary, The:
Queen Marie of Romania:
Queen Victoria:
Queenstown (now Cobh), Eire:
R
Rabbis:
Racial discrimination:
Radio officers (see also wireless operators):
Rationing:
Raymond-Whitcomb:
Red Cross nurses:
Red Cross Society:
Red Star Line:
Regina, The:
Reinhardt, Max:
Religious services:
Revue Nègre, La:
Riffelmacher, Marie:
Ritz Carlton Hotel, New York:
Ritz Hotel, London:
‘Ritzonia’:
Robert Ley, The:
Robeson, Paul:
Rockefeller, Percy:
Rogers, Ginger:
Roll Out the Barrel:
Rosie the Riveter:
Roosevelt, President:
Roxburghe, Duke of:
Royal Academy, London:
Royal Air Force (RAF):
Royal Mail Steam Packet Company:
Royal Naval Air Service:
Ruddock, Kay:
Rule Britannia:
Rum rations:
Runcie, Ann, aka ‘Nancy’ and ‘Madame Edna’:
Runcie, Robert, Archbishop of Canterbury:
Ruth, Babe:
Rutland, Duke of:
S
Saloon:
Saloon class (see also First class):
Samaria, the:
Saturnia, USAT:
Saxonia, The:
Saxonia II:
Scobie, Dorothy:
Scottsboro Boys:
Scotsman, The:
Seamstresses:
Seasickness:
‘Seavacs’:
‘Sea vamps’:
Second class:
Second World War:
Servants’ Crisis:
Sex trafficking:
Sexual harassment:
Shakespeare, Geoffrey:
Shall We Dance:
‘The Ship Beautiful’ – see also Aquitania:
Shell Factory, the – see Cunard National Shell Factory
Shops on ships:
Shopping ashore: