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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]
15 May – RMS Queen Mary arrives at Greenock with nearly 10,000 U.S. troops aboard. [4] July – military scientists begin testing of anthrax as a biological warfare agent on Gruinard Island. [5] 25 August – Dunbeath air crash: Prince George, Duke of Kent, brother of George VI, is among 14 killed in a military air crash near Caithness.
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 ...
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.
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]
TS Queen Mary, a Clyde steamer in service 1933–1977, now retired and as of 2023 under restoration on the River Clyde in Scotland, United Kingdom; RMS Queen Mary, a Cunard Line ocean liner in service 1936–1967, now retired and used as a hotel in Long Beach, California, United States; RMS Queen Mary 2, a Cunard Line ocean liner that entered ...
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