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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.
RMS Queen Mary, 20 June 1945, in New York Harbor carrying US troops from Europe On the morning of 2 October 1942, Curacoa rendezvoused north of Ireland with the ocean liner Queen Mary , which was carrying approximately 10,000 American troops of the 29th Infantry Division . [ 30 ]
Queen Mary 2 changed her course by 20 degrees and only added 14 nautical miles (26 km) to the overall distance of the crossing. [87] [88] [89] The RMS Queen Mary 2 visiting Sydney Harbour, Cape Breton Island, on 1 October 2016. On 6 July 2013 Queen Mary 2 departed New York en route to Southampton on her 200th transatlantic voyage.
In May 1998 Carnival acquired the Cunard Line, and Payne was given charge of designing the new ocean liner Queen Mary 2 (QM2) to replace the aging Queen Elizabeth 2 as Cunard's transatlantic liner. [4]: 15 Payne's design was heavily influenced by past Atlantic liners. "I have this philosophy that to get things right the first-time, you need to ...
The U.S. obtained the use of one of the ocean liners, the British RMS Queen Mary, in exchange for 10 smaller U.S. vessels. [3] The WSA and the army also converted 29 troopships into special carriers for tens of thousands of war brides, European women who had married American servicemen. [6]
From the time of her construction in 1960 until the construction of the 345 m (1,132 ft) RMS Queen Mary 2 in 2004, the 316 m (1,037 ft) vessel was the longest passenger ship ever built. France was purchased by Norwegian Cruise Line (NCL) in 1979, renamed SS Norway, and underwent significant modifications to refit her for cruising.
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In December 1942 while operating as a troopship and carrying 11,339 United States Army troops and crew, [29] the British passenger liner RMS Queen Mary was broadsided during a gale by a 92-foot (28 m) wave 608 nautical miles (700 mi; 1,126 km) from Scotland and nearly capsized. Queen Mary listed briefly about 52 degrees before slowly righting ...