I-Luxury cruise line U-Cunard wamukele omunye wabasebenzi bakudala abasaphila njengoba elungiselela ukugubha usuku lwakhe lokuzalwa lwe-100 ngenyanga efanayo uCunard azogubha ngayo iminyaka eyi-100 yokuhamba ngomkhumbi esuka eDolobheni laseSouthampton.
UNovemba 2019 uphawula ikhulu leminyaka kusukela kwaqopha umlando we-superliner RMS. I-Mauretania ivule insizakalo ye-Cunard's Southampton express transatlantic; ukuxhumanisa ihabhu lokuthumela leHamphire neNew York City.
Owayengu-Cunard bellboy, uJohn 'Jack' Jenkins MBE, osanda kwethula inkulumo ethinta inhliziyo emcimbini wesikhumbuzo se-D-Day ePortsmouth obuhanjelwe nguHer Majesty the Queen, HRH The Prince of Wales kanye noMongameli waseMelika uDonald Trump, usanda kwamukelwa ebhodini likaCunard. indiza yasolwandle eyisithonjana i-Queen Mary 2 ebhalwe nguKaputeni u-Aseem Hashmi MNM ngesidlo sasemini sokugubha. Ngesikhathi esemkhunjini, uKaputeni wamema uMnu Jenkins ukuthi ahlole ama-bellboys omkhumbi - ukuze aqinisekise ukuthi ayahlangabezana nezinga eliphezulu lenkonzo ye-Cunard yawo-1930.
Abasebenzi beNdlovukazi uMary 2 baphumelela kalula ekuhlolweni, nakuba uMnu. Jenkins asheshe waveza ukuthi ukusebenza ebhodini i-Mauretania kwakuhluke kakhulu kulokho okuyikho namuhla.
“Ngikhumbula olunye uhambo lwami lokuqala, lapho sihamba ngomkhumbi siya eWest Indies,” uMnu. Jenkins Uyakhumbula. “Uma sifika ethekwini kwakudingeka ngihambe emphemeni ngiphethe iphinifa, njengoba sasingenalo uhlelo lwe-tannoy ngaleso sikhathi, bese ngishaya insimbi ngithi, 'Zonke izivakashi ezisogwini, zonke izivakashi ezisogwini'."
Wazalwa ngesikhathi lapho ama-ocean liners ayewukuphela kwendlela yokuhamba, uMnu. Jenkins waqhubeka wajoyina uCunard ngo-1933 njengo-bellboy kanye no-lift opharetha. I-RMS. I-Mauretania kwaba umkhumbi wokuqala waseCunard aqokwa kuwo - wona kanye umkhumbi owasungula isikhungo saseCunard's Southampton ngonyaka wokuzalwa kwakhe.
Ngemva kokuba uMauretania ethathe umhlalaphansi ngo-1934, uMnu. Jenkins wasebenza emkhunjini i-Cunard i-Ascania kwaze kwaba yilapho kugqashuka iMpi Yezwe II. Ejoyina umzamo wempi, walwa e-D-Day ngo-1945, ngaphambi kokubuyela e-UK ukuyokwenza umsebenzi wobusolwandle bomthengisi.
“Kube yilungelo elikhulu ukwamukela uMnu. Jenkins emndenini wakwaCunard,” kusho uKaputeni uHashmi. “Kuzwakale kuyindlela efaneleka kakhulu ukuqala imigubho yethu yekhulunyaka, lapha eSouthampton, futhi nakanjani sihalalisele uMnu. Jenkins ngosuku oluyingqophamlando kangaka lokuzalwa azolugubha ngasekupheleni kwalo nyaka. Mina namalungu enkampani yomkhumbi sikujabulele kakhulu ukulalela izindaba zokuthi ukuphila kwakunjani emkhunjini, futhi sibheke ngabomvu ithuba lokuphinda senze kanjalo.”
Kusukela ngoNovemba 18, 2019, iNdlovukazi uMary 2 izokwenza i-Transatlantic Crossing eyingqophamlando isuka eSouthampton iya eNew York - njengesikhumbuzo sobudlelwano obude bekhulu leminyaka phakathi kweDolobha neCunard.
Izivakashi ezikulolu hambo lomkhosi zizodlulela esikhathini esidlule ngenxa yombukiso wasolwandle ohambayo osuka eSouthampton's Sea City Museum, kanye nochungechunge lwezinkulumo zokucebisa ezigibele. Usomlando Wasolwandle kanye nombhali uChris Frame, uzojoyinwa uchwepheshe womlando wendawo u-Penny Legg, ngamunye wethula uchungechunge lwezinkulumo eziyingqayizivele mayelana nomlando omude nomangalisayo we-Cunard ne-Southampton.
