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The average tidal range is approximately 4 metres (13 feet), with 17 hours per day of rising water thanks to the port's "double tides". These allow the largest container and cruise ships access to the port for up to 80 per cent of the time, according to the container terminal operator DP World Southampton.
With a London–New York travel time reduced to just 7–8 hours, demand for multi-day ocean crossing dropped precipitously. On some voyages, winters especially, Queen Mary sailed into harbour with more crew than passengers, though both she and Queen Elizabeth still averaged over 1,000 passengers per crossing into the middle 1960s. [54]
The two former rivals, Olympic (left) and Mauretania (right) moored along the "new" Western Docks in Southampton in 1935, before Mauretania′s final voyage to the breaker's yard in Rosyth, Fife. Cunard White Star withdrew Mauretania from service following a final eastward crossing from New York to Southampton in September 1934. The voyage was ...
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This marked the first time three Cunard Queens have been present in the same location. Cunard stated this would be the last time these three ships would ever meet, [66] due to Queen Elizabeth 2's impending retirement from service in late 2008. [67] However this would prove not to be the case, as the three Queens met in Southampton on 22 April 2008.
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In July 1952 that ship made the crossing in 3 days, 10 hours, 40 minutes. Cunard Line's RMS Queen Mary 2 is the only ship currently making regular transatlantic crossings throughout the year, usually between Southampton and New York. For this reason it has been designed as a proper ocean liner, not as a cruise ship.
In April 1961 she was moved permanently to the Liverpool—New York service, replacing MV Britannic. [3] At some point during her career with Cunard, Sylvania also served on the Rotterdam — Southampton — Le Havre —Québec—Montreal route [ 2 ] and winter crossings between Liverpool and Halifax via Greenock.