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RMS Queen Mary [3] is a retired British ocean liner that operated primarily on the North Atlantic Ocean from 1936 to 1967 for the Cunard Line.Built by John Brown & Company in Clydebank, Scotland, she was subsequently joined by RMS Queen Elizabeth [4] in Cunard's two-ship weekly express service between Southampton, Cherbourg and New York.
An advertisement for Boots from 1911. Boots was established in 1849, by John Boot. [7] After his father's death in 1860, Jesse Boot, aged 10, helped his mother run the family's herbal medicine shop in Nottingham, [8] which was incorporated as Boot and Co. Ltd in 1883, becoming Boots Pure Drug Company Ltd in 1888.
John Boot (October 1815 – 30 May 1860) was an English chemist and retail businessperson who was the sole founder of Boots the Chemists. Originally working in agriculture, he was forced by ill health to change careers and set up a shop to sell medicinal herbal remedies at Goose Gate, Nottingham .
Jesse Boot of Boots the Chemist: A study in Business History by Stanley Chapman (Detail from a copy of the book with black and white plates of Jesse Boot and published by Hodder and Stoughton UK as a special edition for The Boots Company Nottingham in 1973 with an ISBN 0-340-17704-7.)
Queen Mary berthed, with MV Hebrides in the dry dock. On 1 September 2016, following a campaign to raise £350,000, TS Queen Mary was towed into Garvel Drydock for renovation works. On 1 October 2016, TS Queen Mary returned to James Watt Dock and on 9 November 2016, she left under tow for Glasgow on what would be her first visit to the city ...
Queen Mary 2 is the first quadruple-propeller passenger ship completed since the SS France in 1961. [48] Queen Mary 2 carries eight spare blades on the foredeck, immediately forward of the bridge screen. [49] In addition to the primary thrusters, the ship is also fitted with three bow thrusters, with a power output of 3.2 MW each. These allow ...
The brothers founded the Clyde Bank Foundry in Anderston in 1847. They opened the Clyde Bank Iron Shipyard at Cessnock, Govan, in 1851 and launched their first ship, Jackal, in 1852. They quickly established a reputation in building prestigious passenger ships, building Jura for Cunard in 1854 and the record breaking Russia in 1867.
The following ships are named Queen Mary: HMS Queen Mary , a battlecruiser of the Royal Navy entered service in 1913 and sank at the Battle of Jutland in 1916 TS Queen Mary , a Clyde steamer in service 1933–1977, now retired and as of 2023 [update] under restoration on the River Clyde in Scotland , United Kingdom