In 1932 my father and mother returned from the USA aboard the 'RMV Mauritania'. I have read that this great liner was scrapped in the 1930s but there was, I believe also, a second ship of the Cunard Line that bore the same name ?
Just a few days ago I found a "propelling pencil" a souvenir of the 'Mauritania' that my mother had kept, but the picture on the pencil shows a ship with just two funnels. The legend underneath the picture states : WHITE STAR LINER -"Mauritania".
Photos of the Mauritania, on which my parents claimed to have travelled, show the ship having four funnels and consequently, I am puzzled as to why or how they came to have this pencil. They lived in a fairly remote rural village after homecoming and never, to my knowledge, again visited Cobh, the Port for Atlantic liners. I have never heard that anybody ever gave them this pencil yet it was kept in a safe place for, I cannot say how long.
I wonder if any of 'our people' here have an interest in those great ships and who might be able to help solve this slight mystery for me ?