The Lure of Liverpool
It’s a dull day at Whitsuntide, 1935, but the weather isn’t stopping hundreds of holidaymakers from boarding the St. Tudno, pictured in the foreground at Prince’s Landing Stage, ready to sail to Llandudno and the Menai Straits. More followed in the St Seiriol later.
Berthed ahead of the St Tudno and dressed overall, is the Bibby liner, Worcestershire just returned from a cruise to Hamburg.
That weekend when thousands came into Liverpool – chiefly to motor through and admire the wonders of the new Queensway Tunnel – two more ships left the Mersey for Mediterranean cruises.
These were Lamport and Holt’s Vandyck and Cunard’s Lancastria – both bombed and sunk in the ensuing war, the latter with horrific loss of life.
