The Glory Days

The Pincipessa Mafalda was definitely not one of the world's great liners but it was built in the Golden Age of Transatlantic travel and even the smallest shipping lines had pretensions to better things. In the case of this ship it was sailing between Europe and one of the richest countries in the world, Argentina. The wealth of the Argentine landed aristocracy was legendary and they travelled to Europe with aplomb. The Señora Nazar Anchorena was famed for taking her cow on the ships she travelled on to ensure her own milk supply.

Thus the Principessa Mafalda was built, at least in its parts for the First and Second Class, with the great liners as its model. As the drawings below show the public rooms for the more exalted classes were scaled down versions of the type of spaces one would have found on the Lusitania or Titanic.

The Principessa Mafalda would meet a similar fate, with the grand skylights and pillared rooms providing an elegant haven for fish well beyond the era for which they were designed.

The Ladies Writing Room

The Winter Garden

A First Class Cabin

The First Class Dining Saloon

The a la carte Dining room

The Smoking Room