1959 R.M.S Queen Mary Passenger List, April 2nd, 1959, Southampton-New York

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RMS Queen Mary From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia For other ships with the same name, see Queen Mary (ship) . RMS Queen Mary
RMS Queen Mary  in Long Beach, California
History
Name: Queen Mary
Namesake: Mary of Teck
Owner:
  • 1936–49: Cunard White Star Line
  • 1949–67: Cunard Line
  • 1967–present: City of Long Beach
Port of registry:
  • Liverpool (1936–1967)
  • Long Beach (1967–present)
Route: Southampton, New York, via Cherbourg (normal transatlantic voyage East and West bound)
Ordered: 3 April 1929
Builder:
  • John Brown and Company
  • Clydebank , Scotland
Yard number: 534
Laid down: 1 December 1930
Launched: 26 September 1934
Sponsored by: Queen Mary
Christened: 26 September 1934
Maiden voyage: 27 May 1936
Out of service: 9 December 1967 (retired)
Identification: Radio Callsign GBTT
Status: Hotel / restaurant / museum ship
General characteristics
Type: Ocean liner
Tonnage: 81,237 GRT
Displacement: 81,961 tons
Length:
  • 1,019.4 ft (310.7 m) LOA
  • 965 ft (294.1 m) LBP
Beam: 118 ft (36.0 m)
Height: 181 ft (55.2 m)
Draft: 39 ft (11.9 m)
Decks: 12
Installed power: 24 × Yarrow  boilers
Propulsion:
  • 4 × Parsons  single-reduction geared steam turbines
  • 4 shafts, 212,000 shp (158,000 kW)[1]
Speed:
  • 28.5 kn (52.8 km/h; 32.8 mph) (service)
  • 33 kn (61 km/h; 38 mph) (achieved during maiden voyage)
Capacity: 2,139 passengers: 776 first (cabin) class, 784 cabin class, 579 tourist class
Crew: 1101
RMS Queen Mary
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Coordinates33°45′11″N  118°11′23″W Coordinates : 33°45′11″N  118°11′23″W
NRHP Reference #92001714 [2]
Added to NRHP15 April 1993

RMS Queen Mary  is a retired ocean liner  that sailed primarily on the North Atlantic Ocean from 1936 to 1967 for the Cunard Line  (known as Cunard-White Star Line  when the vessel entered service). Built by John Brown & Company  in Clydebank , Scotland, Queen Mary  along with her sister ship , RMS Queen Elizabeth ,[3]  were built as part of Cunard's planned two-ship weekly express service between Southampton , Cherbourg , and New York City . The two ships were a British response to the superliners  built by German and French companies in the late 1920s and early 1930s. Queen Mary  was the flagship of the Cunard Line from May 1936 until October 1946 when she was replaced in that role by Queen Elizabeth .

Queen Mary  sailed on her maiden voyage  on 27 May 1936 and captured the Blue Riband  in August of that year; she lost the title to SS Normandie  in 1937 and recaptured it in 1938, holding it until 1952 when she was beaten by the new SS United States . With the outbreak of World War II , she was converted into a troopship  and ferried Allied  soldiers for the duration of the war.

Following the war Queen Mary  was refitted for passenger service and along with Queen Elizabeth  commenced the two-ship transatlantic  passenger service for which the two ships were initially built. The two ships dominated the transatlantic passenger transportation market until the dawn of the jet age  in the late 1950s. By the mid-1960s, Queen Mary  was ageing and, though still among the most popular transatlantic liners, was operating at a loss.

After several years of decreased profits for Cunard Line, Queen Mary  was officially retired from service in 1967. She left Southampton  for the last time on 31 October 1967 and sailed to the port of Long Beach, California , United States, where she remains permanently moored. Much of the machinery, including one of the two engine rooms, three of the four propellers, and all of the boilers, were removed. The ship serves as a tourist attraction featuring restaurants, a museum , and a hotel. The ship is listed on the National Register of Historic Places . The National Trust for Historic Preservation  has accepted the Queen Mary as part of the Historic Hotels of America.[4]

Contents   [hide ] 
  • 1 Construction and naming
  • 2 History (1934–1939)
    • 2.1 Interior
  • 3 World War II
  • 4 After World War II
  • 5 Long Beach
    • 5.1 Conversion
    • 5.2 As a tourist attraction
    • 5.3 Meeting of the Queens
    • 5.4 W6RO
    • 5.5 Rumors of hauntings
  • 6 See also
  • 7 References
  • 8 Further reading
  • 9 External links

Construction and naming [ edit ]

With Germany launching Bremen  and Europa  into service, Britain did not want to be left behind in the shipbuilding race. White Star Line  began construction on their 80,000-ton Oceanic  in 1928, while Cunard planned a 75,000-ton unnamed ship of their own.

Overhead view of Queen Mary  docked at Long Beach in 2008 Overhead view of Queen Mary  docked at Long Beach in 2008

Construction on the ship, then known only as "Hull Number 534",[5]  began in December 1930 on the River Clyde  by the John Brown & Company  shipyard  at Clydebank in Scotland. Work was halted in December 1931 due to the Great Depression  and Cunard applied to the British Government for a loan to complete 534. The loan was granted, with enough money to complete Queen Mary  and to build a sister ship , Hull No. 552, which became Queen Elizabeth .[6]

One condition of the loan was that Cunard would merge with the White Star Line, which was Cunard's chief British rival at the time and which had already been forced by the depression to cancel construction of its Oceanic . Both lines agreed and the merger was completed on 10 May 1934. Work on Queen Mary  resumed immediately and she was launched on 26 September 1934. Completion ultimately took   3  1⁄2 years and cost 3.5 million pounds sterling .[6]  Much of the ship's interior was designed and constructed by the Bromsgrove Guild .[7]

The ship was named after Queen Mary , consort of King George V . Until her launch, the name she was to be given was kept a closely guarded secret. Legend has it that Cunard intended to name the ship Victoria , in keeping with company tradition of giving its ships names ending in "ia", but when company representatives asked the king's permission to name the ocean liner after Britain's "greatest queen", he said his wife, Queen Mary , would be delighted.[8]  And so, the legend goes, the delegation had of course no other choice but to report that No. 534 would be called Queen Mary .[8]

This story was denied by company officials, and traditionally the names of sovereigns have only been used for capital ships of the Royal Navy . Some support for the story was provided by Washington Post  editor Felix Morley , who sailed as a guest of the Cunard Line on Queen Mary ' s 1936 maiden voyage. In his 1979 autobiography, For the Record , Morley wrote that he was placed at table with Sir Percy Bates , chairman of the Cunard Line. Bates told him the story of the naming of the ship "on condition you won't print it during my lifetime." The name Queen Mary  could also have been decided upon as a compromise between Cunard and the White Star Line , as both lines had traditions of using names either ending in "ic" with White Star and "ia" with Cunard.[8]

The name had already been given to the Clyde turbine steamer  TS Queen Mary , so Cunard made an arrangement with its owners and this older ship was renamed Queen Mary II .[9]

The Queen Mary  was fitted with 24 Yarrow boilers in four boiler rooms and four Parsons turbines in two engine rooms. The boilers delivered 400 pounds per square inch (28 bar) steam at 700 °F (371 °C) which provided a maximum of 212,000 shp (158,000 kW) to four propellers, each turning at 200 RPM.[10]  Queen Mary  achieved 32.84 knots on her acceptance trials in the Spring of 1936.[11]

History (1934–1939) [ edit ]

In 1934 the new liner was launched by Queen Mary as RMS Queen Mary . On her way down the slipway , Queen Mary  was slowed by eighteen drag chains, which checked the liner's progress into the Clyde, a portion of which had been widened to accommodate the launch.[12]

When she sailed on her maiden voyage from Southampton , England on 27 May 1936, she was commanded by Sir Edgar T. Britten, who had been the master designate for Cunard White Star whilst the ship was under construction at the John Brown shipyard. Queen Mary  had a 80,774 gross tonnage (GT) .[13]  Her rival Normandie , which originally grossed 79,280 tonnes, had been modified the preceding winter to increase her size to 83,243 GT  (an enclosed tourist lounge was built on the aft boat deck on the area where the game court was), and therefore kept the title of the world's largest ocean liner.[14]  Queen Mary  sailed at high speeds for most of her maiden voyage to New York, until heavy fog forced a reduction of speed on the final day of the crossing, arriving in New York Harbor on June 1.

A Queen Mary  baggage tag

Queen Mary 's  design was criticised for being too traditional, especially when Normandie 's  hull  was revolutionary with a clipper-shaped, streamlined bow . Except for her cruiser stern , she seemed to be an enlarged version of her Cunard predecessors from the pre–World War I  era. Her interior design, while mostly Art Deco , seemed restrained and conservative when compared to the ultramodern French liner. Queen Mary  proved to be the more popular vessel than her larger rival, in terms of passengers carried.[8] [15]

"It's Men That Count", a late 1930s promotional poster for the Cunard Line

In August 1936, Queen Mary  captured the Blue Riband  from Normandie , with average speeds of 30.14 knots (55.82 km/h; 34.68 mph) westbound and 30.63 knots (56.73 km/h; 35.25 mph) eastbound. Normandie  was refitted with a new set of propellers in 1937 and reclaimed the honour, but in 1938 Queen Mary  took back the Blue Riband in both directions with average speeds of 30.99 knots (57.39 km/h; 35.66 mph) westbound and 31.69 knots (58.69 km/h; 36.47 mph) eastbound, records which stood until lost to United States  in 1952.

Interior [ edit ]

Among facilities available on board Queen Mary , the liner featured two indoor swimming pools, beauty salons, libraries, and children's nurseries for all three classes, a music studio and lecture hall, telephone connectivity to anywhere in the world, outdoor paddle tennis courts, and dog kennels. The largest room onboard was the cabin class (first class ) main dining room (grand salon), spanning three stories in height and anchored by wide columns. The cabin-class swimming pool facility spanned over two decks in height. This was the first ocean liner to be equipped with her own Jewish prayer room – part of a policy to show that British shipping lines avoided the racism evident at that time in Nazi Germany.[16]

The cabin-class main dining room featured a large map of the transatlantic crossing, with twin tracks symbolising the winter/spring route (further south to avoid icebergs) and the summer/autumn route. During each crossing, a motorised model of Queen Mary  would indicate the vessel's progress en route.

As an alternative to the main dining room, Queen Mary  featured a separate cabin-class Verandah Grill on the Sun Deck at the upper aft of the ship. The Verandah Grill was an exclusive à la carte  restaurant with a capacity of approximately eighty passengers, and was converted to the Starlight Club at night. Also on board was the Observation Bar, an Art Deco-styled lounge with wide ocean views.

Woods from different regions of the British Empire  were used in her public rooms and staterooms. Accommodation ranged from fully equipped, luxurious cabin (first) class staterooms to modest and cramped third-class cabins. Artists commissioned by Cunard in 1933 for works of art in the interior include Edward Wadsworth  and A. Duncan Carse .[17]

Queen Mary  Art Deco Interiors
Mural in the main dining room, or "Grand Salon" on which a crystal model tracked the ship's progress 
First class dining room, now known as the "Grand Salon" 
The Observation Bar lounge. The windows were once part of the enclosed Promenade Deck turnaround; the lounge was extended forward after 1967. 

World War II [ edit ] Arriving in New York Harbor, 20 June 1945, with thousands of US soldiers – note the prominent degaussing coil  running around the outer hull.

In late August 1939, Queen Mary  was on a return run from New York to Southampton. The international situation led to her being escorted by the battlecruiser HMS Hood . She arrived safely, and set out again for New York on 1 September. By the time she arrived, the Second World War  had started and she was ordered to remain in port alongside Normandie  until further notice.

In March 1940 Queen Mary  and Normandie  were joined in New York by Queen Mary 's  new sister ship Queen Elizabeth , fresh from her secret dash from Clydebank. The three largest liners in the world sat idle for some time until the Allied commanders decided that all three ships could be used as troopships. Normandie  was destroyed by fire during her troopship conversion. Queen Mary  left New York for Sydney, Australia, where she, along with several other liners, was converted into a troopship to carry Australian and New Zealand soldiers to the United Kingdom.

Queen Mary ' s forward superstructure, shown here in Long Beach. When she came to Long Beach, the Sun Deck windows were enlarged and an anti-aircraft gun was placed on display astride the foremast to represent the World War II days of the great liner.

In the WWII conversion, the ship's hull, superstructure and funnels were painted navy grey. As a result of her new colour, and in combination with her great speed, she became known as the "Grey Ghost." To protect against magnetic mines , a degaussing coil  was fitted around the outside of the hull. Inside, stateroom furniture and decoration were removed and replaced with triple-tiered wooden bunks, which were later replaced by standee bunks.

Six miles of carpet, 220 cases of china, crystal and silver service, tapestries and paintings were removed and stored in warehouses for the duration of the war. The woodwork in the staterooms, the cabin-class dining room and other public areas was covered with leather. Queen Mary  and Queen Elizabeth  were the largest and fastest troopships involved in the war, often carrying as many as 15,000 men in a single voyage, and often traveling out of convoy and without escort. Their high speed made it difficult for U boats  to catch them.

On 2 October 1942, Queen Mary  accidentally sank one of her escort ships, slicing through the light cruiser HMS Curacoa  off the Irish coast with a loss of 239 lives. Queen Mary  was carrying thousands of Americans of the 29th Infantry Division [18]  to join the Allied forces in Europe.[19]  Due to the risk of U-boat attacks, Queen Mary  was under orders not to stop under any circumstances and steamed onward with a fractured stem . Some sources claim that hours later, the convoy's lead escort[clarification needed ] returned to rescue 99 survivors of Curacoa 's  crew of 338, including her captain John W. Boutwood.[20] [21] [22]  This claim is contradicted by the liner's then Staff Captain (and later Cunard Commodore) Harry Grattidge, who records that Queen Mary 's  Captain immediately ordered the accompanying destroyers to look for survivors within moments of the Curacoa 's  sinking.[23]

In December 1942, Queen Mary  carried 16,082 American soldiers from New York to Great Britain,[24]  a standing record for the most passengers ever transported on one vessel.[25]  During this trip, while 700 miles (1,100 km) from Scotland during a gale, she was suddenly hit broadside by a rogue wave  that may have reached a height of 28 metres (92 ft). An account of this crossing can be found in Carter's book.[24] [26]  As quoted in the book, Carter's father, Dr. Norval Carter, part of the 110th Station Hospital on board at the time, wrote in a letter that at one point Queen Mary  "damned near capsized... One moment the top deck was at its usual height and then, swoom! Down, over, and forward she would pitch." It was calculated later that the ship rolled 52 degrees, and would have capsized had she rolled another 3 degrees.[24]  The incident inspired Paul Gallico  to write his novel, The Poseidon Adventure  (1969) and carry the incident to a fictional extreme. This was adapted as a 1972 film by the same name , in which the SS Poseidon  is turned upside-down, and the trapped passengers try to escape. Naturally parts of the film were shot in the actual Queen Mary , conveniently docked in Long Beach .

During the war Queen Mary  carried British Prime Minister Winston Churchill  across the Atlantic for meetings with fellow Allied forces officials on several occasions. He was listed on the passenger manifest as "Colonel Warden ".[27]  The ship was also used to return American troops from Europe after the war.

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