Thanks for joining me for a look back at the building and launch of RMS Queen Mary! I hope you enjoyed the video! Let me know what you'd like to see next in my maritime history series in the comments. Take care and stay safe - Chris.
Unlike other channels, there are no factual errors here. How refreshing! Somebody who makes a video that is all about the ship, and not all about themselves.
As always Sir, excellent, informative and entertaining videos! But, as a Liner Geek, I have a small nit pick: The Cinema that was shown in your awesome video was the one added after the WWII to Civilian service refit. It replaced the Ballroom and the Short Gallery on the Starboard side aft the Main Lounge. Until 1947-ish, or whenever the exact refit was after delivering War Brides to America, the cinema was held in the main lounge. In fact, if you take a close look at the Brass Relief Mural forward in the Main Lounge, you can see the doors that opened in the mural to allow the projection equipment to show the movie on a temporary screen set up on the Stage at the after end of the lounge. Sorry to be such a geek about this, but then again, I actually used very bad judgement to correct a tour guide in 1973 about how many rivets were used in the hull; she told the small group it was 1,000,000, and I corrected her with 10,000,000 (and showed her as I was carrying my dog eared copy of the Shipbuilder RMS Queen Mary volume. Seems I haven't learned my lesson and still use bad judgement. My apologies!
Thanks! And you’re absolutely correct. I actually remembered when the cinema was added after I uploaded the video so I expected to be called out on it 🤭🤭🤭
How about a story of how the Queen Mary was extensively used as a troopship during WWII? and how it was set up. While she was moored at Long Beach I went on board, and was fascinated by the displays of various classes of cabins, as well as the sardine-packed setup used for "hot bunks" while working to ferry troops all around the world
So the conversation on naming the ship went something like this... Bates: *we're gonna name this ship after Queen Victoria* Your Majesty, we want to name this ship after our greatest queen George V: why that would be great, wouldn't it? Bates: 😃 why yes! George V: Mary would love that! Let's call the ship that! Bates: 👁👄👁 sure...
“I launched the new Queen Mary today…..pity it rained….” Sounds like something I’d write especially because I live in the rainiest part of the US. Also in a lot of cases rain is considered to be good luck!
Sir Bates and his vendetta against Queen Mary would be this... Entry 1: "I launched the Queen Mary today, pity it rained" Bates: God knew she was supposed to be Victoria" Entry 1: "I toured the Queen Mary, not as bad as I expected" Bates: this little bitch... *70 years later* Cunard: *launches Queen Victoria* Bates in spirit: finally thank God! Cunard: *launches Queen Mary 2* Bates in spirit: wow cuz I'm a joke right?
You keep mentioning the speed records but you never say what these are or from which two ports. Adding this info in your description would be much appreciated. Also, thanks for using "fewer" correctly. It seems to be a word fading from vocabs!
Oh dear! What a good point. I’ll work that into the next one. Typically speaking the Blue Riband was the westbound crossing while the east bound was a separate record. QM held both - as did Normandie - but other liners, such as Rex, only held records for one direction.
The so called Blue Riband was awarded to a ship with the highest speed in knots sailed between two points, not between two ports. This, as there were so many ports where the ships departed from. The end point was always the Ambrose lightship in New York, but from northern and southern Europe different points were used as startingpoints.
Thanks for joining me for a look back at the building and launch of RMS Queen Mary! I hope you enjoyed the video! Let me know what you'd like to see next in my maritime history series in the comments. Take care and stay safe - Chris.
Unlike other channels, there are no factual errors here. How refreshing! Somebody who makes a video that is all about the ship, and not all about themselves.
I've stayed onboard! Glad I didn't read about all the ghost stories til afterwards...
Thank you! Very informative
This is excellent. Completely fascinating and your presentation is done with real passion. Thank you Chris.
Thanks for this very good video Chris - a wee bit more accurate and informative than some I've seen on this great ship!
Fascinating. This video deserves more views!
I agree 😂 thank you
This is pretty good! Helps me with understanding everything, keep up the good work!
Thank you for the informative video!
Great video. No thanks to Covid 19 we’ve had to cancel cruises on QM2 and QE. Thanks for keeping us interested until we can sail again.
I loved the video !!!!
Thank you 🙏
He needs more views!
By the name of this video I thought that You are inviting to built THE NEW QM ))))
As always Sir, excellent, informative and entertaining videos!
But, as a Liner Geek, I have a small nit pick: The Cinema that was shown in your awesome video was the one added after the WWII to Civilian service refit. It replaced the Ballroom and the Short Gallery on the Starboard side aft the Main Lounge. Until 1947-ish, or whenever the exact refit was after delivering War Brides to America, the cinema was held in the main lounge. In fact, if you take a close look at the Brass Relief Mural forward in the Main Lounge, you can see the doors that opened in the mural to allow the projection equipment to show the movie on a temporary screen set up on the Stage at the after end of the lounge.
Sorry to be such a geek about this, but then again, I actually used very bad judgement to correct a tour guide in 1973 about how many rivets were used in the hull; she told the small group it was 1,000,000, and I corrected her with 10,000,000 (and showed her as I was carrying my dog eared copy of the Shipbuilder RMS Queen Mary volume.
Seems I haven't learned my lesson and still use bad judgement. My apologies!
Thanks! And you’re absolutely correct. I actually remembered when the cinema was added after I uploaded the video so I expected to be called out on it 🤭🤭🤭
Great job writing and narrating.Before I moved east,I'd stay on her on weekends just for a gorgeous change of scenery.I always liked big girls.
😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢
I love your videos!
Thank you 🙏
Hello, Chis. Can you make the video of the SS Normandie? The ship was innovative at the time, and the design some people called revolutionary.
A great idea! Thank you.
How about a story of how the Queen Mary was extensively used as a troopship during WWII? and how it was set up. While she was moored at Long Beach I went on board, and was fascinated by the displays of various classes of cabins, as well as the sardine-packed setup used for "hot bunks" while working to ferry troops all around the world
That’s on the list for a future video! 👍👍👍
If memory serves.. didn’t parts of the planned White Star’s Oceanic get used for Queen Mary?
Actually they were used for Britannic and Georgic, which were two smaller motor ships built by Harland and Wolff.
So the conversation on naming the ship went something like this...
Bates: *we're gonna name this ship after Queen Victoria* Your Majesty, we want to name this ship after our greatest queen
George V: why that would be great, wouldn't it?
Bates: 😃 why yes!
George V: Mary would love that! Let's call the ship that!
Bates: 👁👄👁 sure...
“I launched the new Queen Mary today…..pity it rained….”
Sounds like something I’d write especially because I live in the rainiest part of the US. Also in a lot of cases rain is considered to be good luck!
Ammar my friend loves ships so wondering if you could make more ship vids
Fun fact:
Queen Mary is the only ship that exist of the
Cunard White Star Line
Not "the Normandie" - just and very specifically NORMANDIE
...due to French masculine/feminine articles 'bumping into' cultural norms of USA, its largest market
cunarder here
Sir Bates and his vendetta against Queen Mary would be this...
Entry 1: "I launched the Queen Mary today, pity it rained"
Bates: God knew she was supposed to be Victoria"
Entry 1: "I toured the Queen Mary, not as bad as I expected"
Bates: this little bitch...
*70 years later*
Cunard: *launches Queen Victoria*
Bates in spirit: finally thank God!
Cunard: *launches Queen Mary 2*
Bates in spirit: wow cuz I'm a joke right?
You keep mentioning the speed records but you never say what these are or from which two ports. Adding this info in your description would be much appreciated. Also, thanks for using "fewer" correctly. It seems to be a word fading from vocabs!
Oh dear! What a good point. I’ll work that into the next one. Typically speaking the Blue Riband was the westbound crossing while the east bound was a separate record. QM held both - as did Normandie - but other liners, such as Rex, only held records for one direction.
The so called Blue Riband was awarded to a ship with the highest speed in knots sailed between two points, not between two ports. This, as there were so many ports where the ships departed from. The end point was always the Ambrose lightship in New York, but from northern and southern Europe different points were used as startingpoints.