Maiden Voyages

Page 32

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:

&nb
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:

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