31.
Oct. 5, 2009

I am really anxious to find a passenger list for the Aquitania for Nov 1948, can any one help? Not sure where we left from in England or if we arrived in Canada or the USA as I was only 7 years old at the time. I remember the ship still had all the war hangings over the pictures in the hallways etc my parents were separated by sex into different areas of the ship.

I do remember one night my Father was visiting our cabin and it was so rough that I came flying out of my top bunk and my dad caught me before I fell onto the floor. Have traveled on a few other ships since but cannot remember the years (parents now deceased) but twice on the Mauritania and once on the Franconia plus one other I can't remember. 

Also my Dad was on the Queen Mary in the 1950's. Hope someone can help me. I may have a picture taken of me on the deck of the ship in 1948 but I would have to really look for it among my parents things. Thanks for any help you can give me.

Margaret
Thunder Bay On Canada

30.
Sept. 5, 2009

On Monday, 19th July 1920, shortly after departing Liverpool on her first Atlantic crossing following conversion from coal to oil at Armstrong Whitworth's yard on the Tyne, RMS Aquitania suffered a boiler room explosion caused by a ruptured steam pipe. A fireman, James Curran, was injured, and Sixth Engineer, Scot Seymour Bannerman Barkway, a young Liverpool man, was killed and his body buried at sea Staff Captain F. E. Storey, RNR officiating, off the coast of Southern Ireland.

Scot, who I believe began his Cunard apprenticeship shortly before the First World War, had rejoined Cunard after being demobilised in 1918 and previously served on the former German liner Imperator (later renamed RMS Berengaria). Seymour (as he was known to his friends and family) was my wife's uncle, and I am looking for any information that anyone may have regarding his career with Cunard and, in particular, the circumstances surrounding the accident which killed him. I have attached a photograph of Scot and some of his fellow officers in (I think) 1920. I have been unable to identify the ship or his fellow officers - perhaps you someone can help here. 

John Russell 

Scott Seymour Bannerman Barkway seen in the back row, first on left.

Apprentice Barkway seen in two photos from 1913.

Newspaper article that appeared in the London Times on July 20, 1920.

29.
July 27, 2009

In answer to John Samuals Australia re log book Aquitania 1941, in 41 the Aquitania was a troopship my father sailed from Sydney on I think the 11th April 1941 for Malaya , I would appreciate any information you have.

John Peters

27.
May 21, 2009

This is a very long shot but my relative George Sims born 1902 is on the passenger list for the Aquitania Oct 9th 1920 sailing to New York - he was only 18 and hoping for a new life away from the inevitable life as a coal
miner in South Wales where he was born into a large family.

I would be delighted if any of his subsequent U.S. family saw this as he did indeed settle and make a life for himself but I do not have more details than that.

Penny Fraser
Surrey, England

26.
May 8, 2009

I am one of the many trying to find my name on the passenger list of the Aquitania to determine my arrival date in Canada. The info I have is that we sailed from Southampton to Halifax in March 1948. My mother's name was Mary Alexander Lindsay and she was traveling with my 7 year old brother Robert Ian Lindsay and I, Valerie Jean Lindsay, age 3.  Is there any way to obtain this info? Many thanks in advance.

Valerie Lindsay