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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 ]
In her first year Argonaut escorted the ocean liner RMS Queen Mary on her last voyage across the North Atlantic Ocean to a permanent berth to serve as a hotel/tourist attraction in California, United States. In 1968 "Argonaut" joined NATO (STANAVFORLANT)
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.
RMS Queen Elizabeth on the slipway at Clydebank, circa 1938. The end of the First World War and subsequent shortage of naval orders hit British shipbuilding very hard and John Brown only just survived. Three great ships saved the yard: RMS Empress of Britain, and the giant Cunard White Star Liners RMS Queen Mary and RMS Queen Elizabeth.
On 25 May 1944 U-853 spotted RMS Queen Mary, loaded with American troops and supplies. The U-boat submerged to attack, but was outrun by the much larger and faster ship. [8] As she surfaced in Queen Mary's wake U-853 was attacked by Fairey Swordfish aircraft from British merchant aircraft carriers MV Ancylus and MV Empire MacKendrick. [9]
But among the most famous record-holders was the RMS Queen Mary, which held the record for 14 years, but is now docked in Long Beach where it has been used for many years as a luxury hotel and ...
Photographs of Queen Mary trailer towed by a Bedford tractor at 2 M. T. RAF Lichfield; this is similar to the well-known Airfix model in the RAF Recovery set; Photograph and brief text, a Hawker Tempest on a Queen Mary trailer following a crash landing; Picture of a recovered crashed Lancaster bomber being transported on several Queen Mary trailers