MAURETANIA'S GHOST.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 170, 20 July 1935, Page 14

MAURETANIA'S GHOST.

GAUNT AND DUSTY HULL

HER LAST VOYAGE IN JULY.

(Special.—By Air Mail.) LONDON, June 22. ' When the Mauretania leaves Southampton on her last voyage to the shipbreakers' yard at Rosyth in July, her oldest friend will scarcely be able to recognise her. The graceful lines remain, but the two towering masts have been cut down to little more than the height of her funnels, so that she may "* pass under the Forth Bridge. Her crimson and black funnels are now pink and rusty, her white paint is stained and grimy, and there is rust everywhere. Inside she is but a shell of her fo/mer self. She is like a ghost. The public rooms, once the height of elegance, are now merely skeletons, robbed of their panelling, only the gaunt, dusty structures remaining.. Scarcely a corridor or a cabin is left in the ship, and heaps of wood and plaster are lying about. Only the treads of the great staircase remain, and along the decks are stacked heaps of wood, fittings and furniture removed t from the cabins.