1. Sylvia Duncan and Peter Duncan, The Sea My Steed, Robert Hale, 1960, p. 14.
2. Interview, Southampton City Council Oral History Unit.
3. Maida Nixson, Ring Twice for the Stewardess, p. 171.
4. Ibid., p. 174.
5. Duncan and Duncan, op.cit., p. 150.
6. New York Times, 17 December 1949.
7. Elsa Maxwell, Elsa Maxwell’s Own Story, Little, Brown, 1954, pp. 299–300.
8. The Golden Age of Liners, BBC 4. Presented by Paul Atterbury and made for the Timeshift series, first broadcast on BBC 4 on 22 October 2009.
9. Martha Gellhorn, Travels with Myself and Another, p. 286.