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RMS Queen Elizabeth was an ocean liner operated by Cunard Line. Along with the Queen Mary , she provided a weekly transatlantic service between Southampton in the United Kingdom and New York City in the United States, via Cherbourg in France.
Lieutenant Charles Lindsay Claude Bowes-Lyon, a first cousin of the future Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother survived the disaster, but died in combat only five months later on the Western Front near Ypres. [18] The passengers included 167 members of the Salvation Army.
The sinking of the British ocean liner RMS ... In 1972, the university Seawise University (ex-British liner RMS Queen Elizabeth) caught fire and sank, just a short ...
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 Elizabeth's size record stood for the longest time at over 54 years. This is a timeline of the world's largest passenger ships based upon internal volume, initially measured by gross register tonnage and later by gross tonnage. This timeline reflects the largest extant passenger ship in the world at any given time.
Long live the queen. Queen Elizabeth II has been around for almost everybody’s lifetime. At 95 years old, she is the longest-reigning British monarch ever. She took the throne at the age of 25 ...
As ET previously reported, Queen Elizabeth's death certificate stated she died of "old age." She was 96. She was 96. Her time of death was listed as 3:10 p.m. BST at Balmoral Castle in Scotland.
The sinking of Empress of Ireland proved that the reverse slanting, inverted or "tumblehome" prow so common at the time, was deadly in the event of a ship-to-ship collision because it caused massive damage below the waterline, effectively acting as a ram which would smash through an unarmoured hull without difficulty (especially if the ship was ...