Word: birkenhead
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...damp afternoon last week, just nine days after the U. S. submarine Squalus settled to the ocean floor off New Hampshire's Isles of Shoals, the British submarine Thetis (rhymes with lettuce)* nosed down the Mersey from Birkenhead into Liverpool Bay. Like the Squalus she was a brand-new vessel, and this was to be a final diving test run before she was turned over to the Royal Navy. Aboard was an unusually large company-103 men. Besides her regular crew of 53 there were civilian technicians, civilian Admiralty officials, a local river pilot and two waiters brought...
Three hours after she had submerged, the Thetis was nowhere to be seen and her accompanying tug, which had lost contact with her, wirelessed ashore: "Something is amiss." A few uneasy relatives of the crew began to gather at the Birkenhead shipyards of Cammell Laird & Co., Ltd., builders of the Thetis. A flotilla of salvage ships, warships, tugs and submarines set out from ports from Birkenhead all the way round the bottom of England to Portsmouth. Royal Air Force planes soared the skies. All were looking for the telltale buoys which distressed submarines try to send to the surface...
Forty thousand people crowded Cammell Laird & Co., Ltd.'s historic shipyard at Birkenhead. Princess Mary, the Princess Royal, only sister of the Duke of Windsor, said, "I name this ship Prince of Wales. May God guide her and guard and keep all who sail in her." Robert Johnson, head of Cammell Laird, was less restrained: "If I were in Chancellor Hitler's shoes and heard of the wonderful speed at which we can turn out our ships, I think I'd turn on my axis...
Mauretania, So well ahead were the plans of Cammell Laird's Birkenhead shipbuilders last week that rivets were going into plates on the top decks of Great Britain's new 33,000-ton Cunarder, largest liner ever built in England,* and costing an estimated $10,000,000. Launching is scheduled for July. Nearly 3,000 tons bigger than her famed predecessor of the same name-scrapped two years ago-the new ten-deck Mauretania is 750 ft. long and, with a speed of 22 knots from her steam turbines, will cross the Atlantic in six days. Carrying...
...Cumberland Terrace mansion in which Mrs. Simpson lived can rent it at $210 for Coronation week. The late great Earl of Birken-head's son's house may be had for May and June at an asking price of $1,500 on agreement to feed the six Birkenhead servants and pay their combined wages of $150 per month-and at that the young Earl is "open to offers." Today Manhattan agents are loaded up with such London houses, report "little or no demand"; but U. S. Ambassador to Soviet Russia and Mrs. Davies (see p. 24) have taken...