Cunard Line: A big (33" by 40" ) tissue cruise deck plan dated January 1936. The ship was used mostly for cruising by this date, although the large color profile shows the CARINTHIA in her transatlantic older black livery instead of her newer cruising white. This plans shows all passenger areas in detail, from the Promenade Deck with its array of First Class public rooms, down to the Pompeian Pool and former little Third Class cabins on E Deck. A canvas pool was stuck on the edge of B Deck toward the bow. A sidebar describes the merits of the ship's "Punkah Louver" ventilation which was great while the ship was moving but made the cabins stifling when docked in tropical climes. In the mid to late 1930s this ship would have been very familiar to New Yorkers since most of her cruises catered to the American market and originated from that port. Sadly, the ship was an early casualty of WW2, going to the bottom after being struck by a torpedo off Northern Ireland in June of 1940. This plan is in good condition but with some seam separation at the folds.