GGA Image ID # 1d36e82385. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. While a troupe of invading men from "Grand Fenwick", a fictional European micro-nation, cross the Atlantic to 'war' with the United States, they meet and pass the far larger Queen Elizabeth, and learn that the port of New York is closed due to an air raid drill. In September 1959 an announcement was made to the effect that an independent committee of three, headed by Lord Chandos, had been set up to examine the Cunard Company's proposals for replacing the 'Queens'. In July the ship was sold for $8.64 million to a company called Queen Inc. I have agreed in principle." sails up the Hudson (the North River) to her berth at Pier 90. Lady Assistant Pursers were introduced on the Cunard liners after the, Second World War. When the above lines were written in the mid 1920s, the Cunard Line was operating its Southampton - New York express service with the MAURETANIA (1907), the AQUITANIA (1914) and the BERENGARIA (1913). [15], Queen Elizabeth left the port of New York on 13 November 1940 for Singapore to receive her troopship conversion. In November 1942, the QUEEN ELIZABETH was involved in an incident that still remains the subject of much speculation. For a short time the Queen Elizabeth, now under the command of Commodore Geoffrey Trippleton Marr attempted a dual role in order to become more profitable; when not plying her usual transatlantic route, which she now alternated in her sailings with the French Line's SS France, the ship cruised between New York and Nassau. The NORMANDIE - the QUEEN MARY's arch rival on the North Atlantic. Tung had acquired the vessel for $3.5million, and had insured it for $8million, led some to speculate that the inferno was part of a fraud to collect on the insurance claim. Commenced her first sailing from the Clyde, bound for New York, February 27, 1940. It was decided to steam her all the way and a Chinese crew was flownto Florida, along with workers from Mr Tung's own shipyard. Cabins designed for two passengers were equipped with. There are usually several boxes of records for each port of registry, each box containing an alphabetical range of ships names. [17] In mid-March, carrying 8,000 American soldiers, Queen Elizabeth began a 7,700-mile voyage from San Francisco to Sydney, Australia. The fewer crossings were due to the Elizabeth's extended overhaul during which stabilisers were fitted, and if she had made her usual 44 crossings then the results might have been very different. A painting by Captain Stephen J Card of the two 'Queens' passing in, mid-Atlantic. After V.E. The QUEEN ELIZABETH (centre) and the QUEEN MARY (left). Following the demise of Queen Elizabeth, the largest passenger ship in active service became the 66,343 GRT SSFrance, which was longer but with less tonnage than the Cunard liner. Not only that, but the company headquarters was transferred from Liverpool to Southampton. The National Archives holds all the surviving crew lists and agreements for the Second World War and the succeeding years up to 1950. Seaman Lornie Peter Barnard. A model of the ocean liner Queen Elizabeth has sat serenely for the last 15 years, gliding along on its pedestal in a PEM gallery. The two-funnelled MAURETANIA and the, SYLVANIA are berthed at Pier 92. Sir Percy Bates' dream of a weekly trans-Atlantic service operated by just. These agreements had to be filed within 24 hours of the ships return to a UK port. She was to be fitted with Denny-Brown stabilisers whilst in the King George V dry dock. Whilst in Singapore many of the crew frequented a pub called the 'Pig and Whistle'. She would then have been remembered as the fine working ship that she undoubtedly was. From 1857 onwards, the records are arranged in BT 98 by ships Official Number (ON). The weather was moderate and only slight natural rolling occurred so the liner was force-rolled and the stabilisers immediately became effective. two express steamers became a reality in August, 1947. [15] Parts were shipped to Southampton, and preparations were made to move the ship into the King George V Graving Dock when she arrived. Subscribe now for regular news, updates and priority booking for events.Sign up, All content is available under the Open Government Licence The unreliability of statistics - or should it be said the ability to interpret them in several ways - is illustrated in the case of the UNITED STATES and the QUEEN ELIZABETH. her summer overhaul in the King George V dry dock. Following the First World War, Germany was building up her passenger fleet from 'scratch' in an era of new developments. On 8th May 1967, the axe finally fell and it was announced that the QUEEN ELIZABETH would be withdrawn a year earlier than originally planned - in the Autumn of 1968 after a final summer on the Western Ocean. Captain Duncan Cameron, the Southampton pilot, was still on board. The 'Queens' experienced many difficulties when navigating the Solent due to yacht manoeuvres. As a triumphant fanfare to the launch of the QUEEN ELIZABETH, the Mary captured the Blue Ribandin August 1938 with a speed of 31.69 knots, a record that would stand for fourteen years. She did, however, remain all the while under Cunard management with British officers and crew. AB. The two ships' real potential had yet to be appreciated. Townley and his hastily signed-on crew of four hundred Cunard personnel were told by a company representative before they left to pack for a voyage where they could be away from home for up to six months.[16]. When he asked for questions, one boy shot up his arm and asked: In November 1942, the QUEEN ELIZABETH was involved in an incident that still remains the subject of much speculation. The following morning, 18th April 1947, she steamed into Southampton - fifty hours late ! This would have been the OCEANIC, whose keel was laid at Harland & Wolff's yard in 1928. At 11.15am the following day the QUEEN ELIZABETH was safely berthed at Port Everglades and the final, often fatal, order on the bridge telegraph was rung to the engine room: 'Finished with Engines'. TheNational Records of Scotlandholds agreements and crew lists under the reference BT 3, covering 1867-1913, for Scottish ships only. Their welcome in New York was, to say the least, tumultous. The Mercantile Marine Act of 1850 required masters to keep a ships Official Log to record events on board including: Logs were deposited after each foreign voyage, or half-yearly for home trade ships. The starboard side of the promenade deck, looking aft. To administer this fund, masters or owners of merchant ships had to keep a muster book, also known as a muster roll, which was filed at the port of arrival with the Seamens Fund Receivers. On the right hand side was the certificate of discharge, which had spaces to fill in the name of the ship, official number, port of registry, registered tonnage, port of departure, name of seaman, date of birth, place of birth, capacity, date of entry into crew lists, place and date of discharge. Built by John Brown & Co., Clydebank, Glasgow, Scotland. The QUEEN ELIZABETH leaving her berth at Pier 90, New York, The scene on the port wing of the QUEEN ELIZABETH's bridge as the, ship swings in the Hudson River before heading down river, across. During two years of near neglect, deterioration had rapidly set in, especially in the fragile boiler tubes. In late 1968, Queen Elizabeth was sold to the Elizabeth Corporation, with 15% of the company controlled by a group of Philadelphia businessmen and 85% retained by Cunard. Breakfast was from 6.30am until 11.am; and dinner from 3.pm to 7.30pm. He described it as 'a British understatement with a vengeance, as though the British world of ships and shiplovers looked the other way until she had gone. The continuing popularity of the ', The general assumption that the replacements for the ', Of all the strikes and disputes that hit the QUEEN ELIZABETH, the most catastrophic was the 42-day seamen's strike of May and June 1966. To many, her appearance must have come as a bit of a surprise for no longer was she in pristine Cunard paintwork of black hull and white superstructure, but she had been completely repainted in dull uniform Admiralty grey. WebNew York State, Passenger and Crew Lists, 1917-1967 to 1962 for NYC (fee-based - at Ancestry) Includes passenger and crew arrival lists (and some departure lists) for vessels that were filed at various ports (such as Binghamton, Buffalo, NYC, Niagara Falls, Oswego, Rochester, Syracuse, and other ports) in the state of New York. The QUEEN ELIZABETH was the culmination of Sir Percy Bates' own initiative; the fulfilment of a long-cherished dream held by many shipowners; that a weekly trans-Atlantic ferry service should be maintained by two ships rather than by three, or even four (sometimes mismatched) vessels that had previously - and expensively - been required. The extent of original materials at the GG Archives can be very beneficial when researching your family's migration from Europe. In late 1968, Queen Elizabeth was sold to the Elizabeth Corporation, with 15% of the company controlled by a group of Philadelphia businessmen and 85% retained by Cunard. In early 1955 the QUEEN ELIZABETH was taken out of service for an extended overhaul from 20th January until the end of March. The fins were retractable into the hull to save fuel in smooth seas and for docking. A serious fire broke out in No.4 boiler room on 13th February and was fortunately brought under control. He wrote in his private diary: Towards the end of June 1936, in reply to a question in the House of Commons, the Chancellor Neville Chamberlain said: Early in July 1936 Stephen Piggot (the managing director of John Brown) wrote to Sir Percy Bates saying that Yard No.535 had been reserved for the new ship. From the mid 1940s until the mid 1950s both the 'Queens' were given a short summer overhaul at Southampton. AB. On the bridge there was the faint sensation of a slight, lurching jolt which some on board never even felt. Four years and one day after the launch of the QUEEN MARY, on Tuesday 27th September 1938, Queen Elizabeth, who was Queen Mary's daughter-in-law, consort of her son King George VI, stood at the head of the same slipway on which the QUEEN MARY had been built. But the QUEEN ELIZABETH made only 38 crossings and yet carried 66,000 passengers, giving a average of 1,752. The King George V Dock at Southampton, specially built for the 'Queens' was unusable because it was within range of Nazi bombers; the use of the American dock at Bayonne, New Jersey, was denied because of U.S. neutrality; the Esquimault dock on the west coast of Canada was just too far away, and the French dock at St Nazaire (built for the NORMANDIE) was out of the question. Her carrying capacity was over 15,000 troops and over 900 crew. During this time, and for a while after, she was under American control through a lend-lease agreement. Mildenhall Wilfred Charles. Harland & Wolff found itself in a peculiar situation. Other than for Southampton's Albion Band, the quayside was almost bereft of well-wishers. It occurred one day out of Ceylon and Dr Maguire remembered waking suddenly because the engines were slowing down. CPO. The QUEEN ELIZABETH arrived at Singapore three weeks after leaving New York for a seven-week conversion into a troopship with accommodation for 5,000 troops. The rest, up to 1989, have been destroyed. This, then, is the story of the QUEEN ELIZABETH, the world's largest liner. All that required to be done was drydocking in Japan. These were installed two, three and five to a tier in every available space and the QUEEN ELIZABETH left San Francisco in a small convoy bound for Sydney with eight thousand troops on board which were needed to bolster Australia's depleted forces until some of her own troops could be recalled from the Middle East. The salvage tug RESCUE arrived on 16th February as the SEAWISE UNIVERSITY continued her southward drift through the Windward Passage into the Caribbean. The railway company expressed the view that the projected dry dock could not be started for some eight to ten years and that it would take between four and five years to complete. She was there to launch the second of Cunard's superliners - the QUEEN ELIZABETH. A fortnight later, on 21st March 1940, the QUEEN MARY slipped quietly away: her work as a troop transport was about to begin. Top to bottom: the MAURETANIA, the NORMANDIE, the QUEEN MARY. Five days, nine hours and 3,127 nautical miles after leaving the Tail of the Bank, the QUEEN ELIZABETH passed the Ambrose Channel Light Vessel off New York and picked up her pilot. The 1971 film version starring Connery used the P&O liner SSCanberra for the sequence. Four torpedoes were fired and the U-Boat followed their course. Undoubtedly the incomplete QUEEN ELIZABETH was the greatest dilemma facing John Brown's on the outbreak of war. Sir James Bisset was in command of the QUEEN ELIZABETH for many of these 'shuttle' voyages. Running mate: Queen Mary. Discovery is a catalogue of archival records across the UK and beyond, from which you can search 32 million records. But the QUEEN ELIZABETH made only 38 crossings and yet carried 66,000 passengers, giving a average of 1,752. Great steps forward were being made in both these fields. In 1972, whilst she was undergoing refurbishment in Hong Kong harbour, a fire broke out aboard under unexplained circumstances, and the ship was capsized by the water used to fight the fire. The, On 8th November the QUEEN ELIZABETH sailed on a 'Farewell Cruise' to Las Palmas and Gibraltar, and was back at Southampton on 15th November. Rodaway Thomas. CPO. REINA DEL PACIFICO PACIFIC STEAM NAVIGATION. 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