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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.
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 ...
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]
Sir Edgar Britten KB RD RNR (1874 – October 28, 1936) was a Cunard Line captain remembered primarily for being the first captain of the ocean liner RMS Queen Mary in 1936. Born in Bradford, England, he began his career as a cabin boy. [ 1 ]
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 ...
Captain John Treasure Jones RD, (15 August 1905 – 12 May 1993) was a British naval officer who became a well-known media figure in the mid-1960s following his appointment as the last master of the Cunard liner, RMS Queen Mary. [1]
The Queen Mary entered service in 1936. [52] Author C. R. Bonsor writing in 1963 states, "from 1936 on it became necessary to squeeze the maximum speed out of Aquitania in order to make her a suitable running mate for Queen Mary thus 24 knot passages became regular". [53]
Olympic was the largest British-built ship in the world for over 20 years until the commissioning of Queen Mary in 1936. Titanic ' s story has been adapted into many books, films, and television programs and Britannic was the inspiration of a film of the same name in 2000.