This Yacht Isn't That Small!
As more and more interior photographs come to light, I'm going to be able to show you that the Caronia was not in any way a small ship. Of her day, she was one of the larger liners afloat as there was a yawning gap in tonnage between under 40,000 tons and the 80,000s of the two Cunard Queens.
There were no less than 13 public rooms and two restaurants on board Caronia, all complemented with shops, gymnasia, hairdressing and beauty therapy parlours etc. Where the Queens were primarily designed for the relatively short hop of five or six days across the Atlantic Ocean, Caronia had been very successfully designed to be lived upon for several months at a time.
I've appended two pictures below from the 1951 Great World Cruise book…
Balmoral Restaurant
The Balmoral Restaurant
A wide-screen shot of the restaurant looking forward to the port side corner.
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Observation Lounge
The Observation Lounge
Built in an arc following the front of the ship's main superstructure and sited forward of the cocktail bar (left and right respectively), the Observation lounge was a place of quiet with fabulous views over the bow. This view looks across from the port side.
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