The Picture that proves a fact – the Mauretania and Lusitania alongside in the Canada Dock Basin
A better picture of the Mauretania (left) and Lusitania alongside each other.
Pride of place in this week’s stroll Down Memory Lane goes to what must be one of the rarest photographs of its kind on Merseyside – and the man who has kindly loaned it believes the picture settles for ever a local argument that has been raised regularly in recent decades.
Reader Harry Large who lives in Liverpool 6, tells us there has been much controversy as to whether the famous ocean-going liners Mauretania and Lusitania, were ever in port together in Liverpool.
Well there can be no doubting Thomases now, for Harry has come up with a photograph that proves conclusively that they most definitely were.
The picture although badly torn and extremely brittle, shows the two “ocean monarchs” berthed alongside each other in Liverpool’s Canada Dock Basin on October 14th, 1909.
