RMS MAJESTIC: WEEKEND CRUISE TO NASSAU, 1935

In October 1935, Cunard White Star printed a brochure advertising Majestic’s ‘New Year’s Eve Week End Cruise to Nassau.’ Although the original item has faded and become dirty over the years, it sheds light on one of Majestic’s final actions as a passenger liner.

According to the New York Times, when Majestic returned on January 1st 1936 she carried no fewer than 1,501 passengers who had enjoyed their time onboard the second largest liner in the world.

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Majestic’s finest suites could command a far higher price than other staterooms. A couple who engaged A42, A44 and A46 could expect to pay $330 ($4,845.45, adjusted using the consumer price index, or £2,444.48, as of 2006). In return, they received two bedrooms, a sitting room, veranda, three baths and toilets, and a wardrobe room, yet it was a substantial sum of money for such a short cruise. The suite might have been occupied by the Kaiser, had Germany emerged victorious from World War I, and had Majestic been completed for her German owners as Bismarck. (Author’s Collection.)

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