A parakeet flew in through an open porthole at New York and quickly became the mascot of the ship's officers who bought him a fancy cage and named him Joey. WebThe Cunard - White Star Liner QUEEN ELIZABETH 1938 - 1972 LIVERPOOL SHIPS ACCRA OF 1947 ELDER DEMPSTER LINES AUREOL ELDER DEMPSTER LINES BRITANNIC and GEORGIC CUNARD WHITE STAR CARINTHIA CUNARD LINE EMPRESS OF BRITAIN CANADIAN PACIFIC EMPRESS OF CANADA LOSS BY FIRE She urgently needed to be drydocked to have the remains of her launch gear removed from her bottom plates which would then have to be cleaned and painted. During almost two decades following the end of the Second World War, young men in Britain were 'called up' for two years of National Service in the armed forces. The QUEEN ELIZABETH off the Battery area of Manhattan as she. All the Cunard records from that period have apparently been lost. Within a few short minutes the plans, hopes and successes of three decades came to an end as syrens boomed out across the water, the whole poignant scene witnessed by just a few passengers braving the night wind. The crossing from New York to Cherbourg - 3,195 miles - was made in 4 days 13 hours and 6 minutes at an average speed of 29.29 knots. The route between America and Europe had characteristics very different from others, said Colonel Bates. During the turnround in New York on her second G.I. at Southampton which was specially constructed for the 'Queens'. Evangelist Billy Graham offered 2.1 million for her to become a floating bible school, and the United States Institute of Technology wanted her to become a floating university. It occurred one day out of Ceylon and Dr Maguire remembered waking suddenly because the engines were slowing down. August 2 - 7 First time a complete division was carried on any ship. We'd like to use additional cookies to remember your settings and understand how you use our services. Many thanks to Ted Finch for his assistance in collecting this data. Her propellers thrashed the shallow water into billowing clouds of yellow and black as sand and mud were churned up from the sea bed. A group of the Purser's staff in the Tourist Purser's cabin. Seaman Lornie Peter Barnard. It was Chamberlain's firm belief that the British Government should guarantee a building loan to the Cunard Company on the condition that the two companies merged into one united front against the foreign competition. She was nonetheless a popular ship. The weather was moderate and only slight natural rolling occurred so the liner was force-rolled and the stabilisers immediately became effective. RMS Queen Elizabeth Tourist Class Restaurant. More than a year after the two 'Queens' had last met in New York, they sailed in company for the very first time in April 1941. 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. [6] This proved to be problematic, for the ship's engines and boilers were in poor condition after several years of neglect. In the entrance channel to the harbour at Port Everglades a second boiler blew and the SEAWISE UNIVERSITY now had just four boilers functioning out of a possible twelve. Three five-day cruises between New York and Nassau, Bahamas were planned for February and early March 1963, after which the liner would return to Atlantic service. Search for crew lists and agreements from 1951 to 1994 at: The National Archives search our 10% sample by ships number inBT 99. The SEAWISE UNIVERSITY (ex QUEEN ELIZABETH) at Cape Town, on 14th June 1971, on passage to Hong Kong. It was eventually decided to send the QUEEN ELIZABETH to Canada for drydocking at Esquimalt. Christopher T Watts and Michael J Watts, My Ancestor Was a Merchant Seaman(Society of Genealogists, second edition with addendum, 2004), Simon Wills,Tracing Your Merchant Navy Ancestors(Pen & Sword, 2012), For quick pointersTuesday to Saturday You may find a ships Official Number from the following published sources available at The National Archives: See section 3 for more information on how to find a ships number. AB. Promptly at 2.pm on 16th October 1946, the QUEEN ELIZABETH. For the QUEEN ELIZABETH the war was over. Cunard hoped that its continuing involvement with the QUEEN ELIZABETH would reap worthwhile benefits in the years to come. At first it was proposed that work on the, Questions were soon asked in Parliament as to what possible use the two Cunard leviathans could be in wartime. brides to the United States while Queen Elizabeth was overhauled at the Firth of Clyde Drydock, in Greenock, by the John Brown Shipyard. WebThe Queen Elizabeth is the newest addition to the Cunard Line and made its debut voyage in October 2010. The two sets operated independently so that for a moderate roll only one set needed to be used. 1951onwards And so, on 24th June 1945, the QUEEN ELIZABETH left Gourock with her first load of returning G.I.s. Dimensions, 987' x 118' (1,031' o.l.). Use the search box in BT 99 to search by name of ship or official number. Between 1858 and the First World War, the Merchant Navy did not keep registers of its seamen, so crew lists and agreements are the only records you are likely to find of an individual merchant seaman during this time. Steam turbines. The purpose of the visit was to enable Queen Elizabeth to present the ship with her personal standard, to be framed and hung in the first-class restaurant. The experiment lasted three voyages before the bandits were given a dishonourable discharge. Barry Claud Barrington. The American liner made 44 Atlantic crossings and carried 70,104 passengers in 1955. The maiden voyage had been arranged to depart from Southampton on 16th October 1946. and the QUEEN ELIZABETH together at New York on 10th March 1940. An alternative site was found at Fort Lauderdale in Florida. 83,673 Gross Tons -- 2,314 Passengers. This left only Singapore and the QUEEN ELIZABETH would have to make two stops to take on fuel and water on her voyage from New York. That evening the crew was paid off and just 193 were retained to take the, In the early morning fog of 28th November 1968, the QUEEN ELIZABETH left Southampton for the last time. Try search terms such as ship register or registrar general shipping and seamen. She had crossed the North Atlantic Ocean 896 times in peacetime, and had carried 2,300,000 passengers, steaming 3,472,675 nautical miles in the process, On 6th November 1968 Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother visited the ship for the very last time. These had been floated down the Clyde in order to reduce the liner's weight and thus reduce her draught during that short critical journey. 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. While being constructed in the mid-1930s by John Brown and Company at Clydebank, Scotland, the build was known as Hull 552. You are unlikely to find records by searching for the names of ships or seamen, as the records have not been indexed in that way. This meant that the crew had to re-sign on foreign-going Articles. Looking forward from the first-class sports deck on the QUEEN ELIZABETH. Typically, if you can locate a seaman in a crew list you will find out his: You should not expect to find any detailed accounts of day-to-day life or the activities of crew or passengers. Each fin had an outreach of 12 feet 6 inches and was 7 feet 3 inches wide. He had no experience of handling ships as large as the 'Queens' and off Calshot at the entrance to Southampton Water the QUEEN ELIZABETH ran aground. Seaman Lornie Peter Barnard. In addition to the normal painting, scaling, underwater inspection, removal of propellers, drawing of tailshafts and so forth; 157 tourist-class cabins were given air-conditioning and provision was also made to carry more fuel. Only a little fuel remained after the transatlantic crossing, but a barge moved alongside to take it off as necessary. WebScenes on the main podium prior the launching, the two Princesses are notable, especially Princess Elizabeth , our future Queen! The new liner had a weight on the slipway of 39,400 tons. For instance, the QUEEN ELIZABETH was out of service from 21st July to 30th July 1952 and this included six days in the King George V dry dock. On her maiden voyage in 1928, the German liner BREMEN captured, the Blue Riband of the North Atlantic, crossing from the Bishop Rock. being transported (not for $100) in the QUEEN ELIZABETH who, in a burst of enthusiasm, said to one of the officers: "Say, why can't you British build a ship like this?" 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 liner's new owners were by now in financial difficulty and Cunard stepped in to moderate a worsening situation by more or less taking over the new venture. WebThe Cunard - White Star Liner QUEEN ELIZABETH 1938 - 1972 LIVERPOOL SHIPS ACCRA OF 1947 ELDER DEMPSTER LINES AUREOL ELDER DEMPSTER LINES BRITANNIC and GEORGIC CUNARD WHITE STAR CARINTHIA CUNARD LINE EMPRESS OF BRITAIN CANADIAN PACIFIC EMPRESS OF CANADA LOSS BY FIRE Two months later the purchasers realised that the river was not deep enough. On the return southbound voyages the ships carried Allied wounded, internees or enemy prisoners-of-war, stopping off at Ceylon. Over forty years ago, in 1972, the world's largest liner, the RMS QUEEN ELIZABETH, was lying on her side in Hong Kong harbour, a burnt-out hulk. In early 1955 the QUEEN ELIZABETH was taken out of service for an extended overhaul from 20th January until the end of March. The Official Number was allocated on registration, retained for the life of the ship, and was not reused. That is quite sufficient to ensure her a place in the story of Liverpool ships. The market could only assume 2,700,000 of the risk. L.Sea. Cunard retired Queen Mary in 1967 and Queen Elizabeth completed her final Atlantic crossing to New York on 5 November 1968. Typical winter conditions in the North Atlantic. The following day, 8th October, four hundred guests of the Cunard Company boarded the QUEEN ELIZABETH for the return passage to Southampton. He arrived at seven in the morning on Saturday 2nd March 1940 with sealed orders which were only to be opened when the QUEEN ELIZABETH was out at sea. The river was also widened in places, especially at Dalmuir where the QUEEN MARY had grounded for many anxious seconds as she proceeded to the Tail of the Bank. Gourock farewell'. Marr recommended that Seawise University be towed to the New Territories, but Tung and his crew were convinced that they could sail the ship there using just the aft engines and boilers. Sir James Bisset was in command of the QUEEN ELIZABETH for many of these 'shuttle' voyages. A fortnight later, on Monday 20th August 1945, the QUEEN ELIZABETH arrived in Southampton for the first time - four and a half years late. WebRMS Queen Mary: 80,774 GRT: 1936: Currently a Hotel ship 16 October 1946 (entered service) RMS Queen Elizabeth: 83,673 GRT: 314 m (1,031 ft) 1946 1972 (Destroyed by fire) Scrapped in 1974 (after sinking) 3 February 1962 (entered service) SS France (1962-1980) SS Norway (post-1980) 66,343 GRT(as built) 76,049 GRT (final size) They were logged at ports such as Madras and Bombay under the direction of the Serang or Headman of the port. Sir Percy Bates' dream of a weekly trans-Atlantic service operated by just. On 16th May 1966, just six weeks after completing her overhaul on the Clyde, the QUEEN ELIZABETH became the first major casualty of the strike and was laid up at Southampton. Top to bottom: the MAURETANIA, the NORMANDIE, the QUEEN MARY. This was a subsidiary of the giant Orient Overseas Line which would be the ship's actual owner and operator. All Digitized Passenger Lists For the RMS Queen Elizabeth Available at the GG Archives. Since the Registry General of Shipping and seamen regulations covered only British seamen, details of engagement, such as length of engagement, could be different, allowing a lascar seaman to be contracted for a period longer than one voyage and sometimes for several years. Queen Elizabeth with Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret. Queen Elizabeth was retired after her final crossing to New York, on 8 December 1968. David Bowes-Lyon, had recently been appointed to the Board of Cunard and had arranged for Sir Oswald Birley to paint the portrait which was hung in the first-class main lounge. The National Maritime Museum holds 10% of agreements and crew lists for 1951-1976. A/CPO Lornie Peter Barnard. The RESCUE could not handle the ship on her own and so a second tug was summoned. A large amount of tropical growth that was fouling the liner's bottom plates needed to be removed: it was estimated that the growth reduced her speed by two knots or more. The fewer crossings were due to the, At the Cunard Steamship Company's Annual General Meeting held on 28th May 1959, the Chairman Colonel Denis Bates speculated on how the world would be travelling in the future. The outcome was the Cunard (Insurance) Act, passed in December 1930. WebSearch and download () lists of passengers boarding at UK and Irish ports and travelling to places such as America, Canada, India, New Zealand and Australia between 1890 and 1960 (BT 27) on the findmypast.co.uk website and also on the Ancestry.co.uk website. The QUEEN MARY's post-war refit was completed in the summer of 1947 and on 1st August she joined her larger sister in the long-delayed two-ship Atlantic express ferry service for which they had both been built. The QUEEN ELIZABETH leaving the fitting-out berth at John Brown's. 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. At 11.15am the QUEEN ELIZABETH weighed anchor and was abeam the Cumbraes an hour later. 1947-02-13 RMS Queen Elizabeth Passenger List, 1947-05-24 RMS Queen Elizabeth Passenger List, 1947-09-11 RMS Queen Elizabeth Passenger List, 1948-05-14 RMS Queen Elizabeth Passenger List, 1948-06-24 RMS Queen Elizabeth Passenger List, 1948-10-31 RMS Queen Elizabeth Passenger List, 1949-05-06 RMS Queen Elizabeth Passenger List, 1949-08-27 RMS Queen Elizabeth Passenger List, 1949-10-14 RMS Queen Elizabeth Passenger List, 1950-11-16 RMS Queen Elizabeth Passenger List, 1952-05-07 RMS Queen Elizabeth Passenger List, 1952-06-18 RMS Queen Elizabeth Passenger List, 1953-06-11 RMS Queen Elizabeth Passenger List, 1954-08-26 RMS Queen Elizabeth Passenger List, 1954-12-23 RMS Queen Elizabeth Passenger List. Contact them directly to find out more. This is, indeed, the very heart of a shipping city, where, standing in the windows of that building, one can see the ships of all nations passing by in procession at tide-time, almost as mundanely as the trams whose terminus is at the water's edge. In mid Atlantic on 6th June she steamed 700 miles at an average of 30.43 knots, her fastest day's run since entering passenger service after the war. Flt.Lt. It is said that ship repairers always complain that shipowners never give them long enough to complete annual overhauls. There was great complacency in the Cunard boardroom: people would always prefer to cross the ocean by liner, and preferably by Cunard ! The reason was the Chancellor of the Exchequer's apprehension at what might be asked of him by his critics when making the announcement of the order in the House, namely 'that this tender business was all a farce, and that the order was in Brown's pocket from the start. The U.704, under the command of Kapitan Horst Kessler, was wallowing in a Force 8 gale off the west coast of Ireland before returning south to its base in France. Only the berth at John Brown could accommodate the King George V-class battleships. The left hand side of the E-1 certificate was a certificate of character on which the master rated the seamans ability and character of conduct (VG, G Fair, Poor). the title of each video, exactly as I have shown it above. In 1951 the 'Queens' sailed from Southampton every 15 or 17 days, but the 1952 schedules show each liner sailing everyfourteen days, enabling fifteen round voyages to be made between May and October compared with just eleven in 1951. During the turnround in New York on her second G.I. Apparently the torpedo had exploded well away from the ship. How much more dignified it would have been to have broken the ship up in 1968. Agreements and crew lists from the 19th century are occasionally accompanied by ships logs and this becomes increasingly common for 20th century records. The National Archives of Australia has a large number of record series concerning ships crews and the merchant navy. For example, for a ship with the number 25820, search using 258* (include the asterisk) as your keyword. On a particularly rough crossing in April 1955, during which there were gusts of wind to 70mph and a heavy swell of up to 50 feet, nearly 100 passengers and members of the QUEEN ELIZABETH's crew were hurt. It was named after Dr Gauss, a nineteenth century expert on magnetism, whose theories had enabled the Germans to produce their new lethal magnetic mines. Although the QUEEN ELIZABETH could carry 2,200 passengers, the number would be limited to about 1,200 whilst cruising. Sanders Samuel Donald . Both Queen Elizabeth and Churchill sent messages of congratulation to Captain Townley. A serious fire broke out in No.4 boiler room on 13th February and was fortunately brought under control. In September 1969 a hurricane warning caused the then almost deserted ship to be partially scuttled to prevent her tearing away from her berth. The QUEEN ELIZABETH left Southampton on 30th March 1946 and arrived and anchored off Greenock the following day. The dock would have to be 124 feet wide at its entrance and have a minimum depth of 40 feet. Day it fell to the Queens to transport back to the United States many of the hundreds of thousands of the G.I.s they had brought to Europe, and, in the case of the QUEEN MARY, to transport 25,000 American servicemen's 'War Brides' and their children to their new home country. Alternatively, browseBT 98/140-563to view all the ports covered for this period and the alphabetical ranges of ships for each port. There were four fins, two on either side of the ship. All fields were usually completed. 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