Building a legend: the challenge of building RMS. Queen Mary!
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- Опубликовано: 31 июл 2024
- RMS. Queen Mary has a troubled start. Her construction was stopped because of the Great Depression.
Queen Mary’s eventual completion helped save Cunard and UK Shipbuilding from the impacts of the Depression and led to the creation of Cunard-White Star Line!
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In the 1920s, Cunard Line made plans for an 80,000-ton ocean liner, RMS Queen Mary, to replace the ageing Cunard ships Mauretania and Berengaria.
At over 1000ft long and powered by steam turbines, the new RMS. Queen Mary was laid down in December 1930 at John Brown in Clydebank as Hull No. 534.
In 1933, Cunard and White Star entered into merger negotiations due to the impact of the Great Depression. The negotiations took some time to work out, but by 1934, an agreement was reached, establishing Cunard-White Star Line.
UK Government funds were made available to recommence work on RMS. Queen Mary, allowing thousands of people to return to John Browns to work on building the RMS. Queen Mary.
Her Majesty Queen Mary named the new Cunard RMS. Queen Mary at a launching ceremony in September 1934. The launch took place on a rainy day with hundreds of thousands of spectators there to see the RMS. Queen Mary launched.
The launch of RMS. Queen Mary was a momentous occasion. As the ship was launched, she captured the hopes and dreams of the British public.
The Queen Mary was a symbol of the strength and resilience of the United Kingdom. Queen Mary’s maiden voyage was a spectacular occasion. The ship was delayed during the crossing by a thick fog bank - meaning Queen Mary didn’t capture the speed record from the French Line's Normandie on her maiden voyage, but Queen Mary did capture it later in 1936.
While the French Line's Normandie would later improve on RMS. Queen Mary’s crossing time, in 1938 Cunard's RMS. Queen Mary captured the record once and for all - both eastbound and westbound - and held onto it until 1952.
Watch the video to learn all about RMS. Queen Mary - Building Britain’s Flagship! Construction and Launch of Cunard’s Queen Mary.
Image References / License Details:
Many of the images in this video are thanks to:
- Ian Boyle / Simplon Post Cards (www.simplonpc.co.uk),
- Rob Henderson & Doug Cremer Collection (bit.ly/3fujesC) and,
- Colin Hargreaves.
Where these images appear they are acknowledged as so.
Other image references as follows:
1) HM. Queen Mary / Public Domain / bit.ly/2AtFGUa
2) Queen Mary / CC2.0 Altair78 Derivative Work / bit.ly/2ULUuEi
3) Mauretania / Tyne & Wear Archive / bit.ly/2Cb69q5
4) Berengaria / Tyne & Wear Archive / bit.ly/3dXXTrg
5) Europa & Bremen / Bundesarchiv, Bild 102-09397 / CC-BY-SA 3.0/ bit.ly/30HUn0w
6) SS Bremen (1929) / Drawn by John Conway, 2004, and released under GFDL / bit.ly/3d5FJ5A
7) Bremen / Bundesarchiv, Bild 102-11081 / Georg Pahl / CC-BY-SA 3.0 / bit.ly/2YxoDbC
8. Oceanic / Anton Logvynenko / CC4.0 / bit.ly/2YOIJOX
9. Great Depression / Public Domain / bit.ly/2YErtLU
10. Mauretania / Tyne & Wear Archive / bit.ly/3d49Bzc
11. Unemployment / Chinmaya S Padmanabha / CC4.0 / bit.ly/3fpRBRD
12. Normandie / Albert Julius Szunyog / CC3.0 / bit.ly/3e3voZm
13. Normandie / San Diego Air and Space Museum Archive / bit.ly/3e1eV7S
14. Rex / Public Domain / bit.ly/2ArxljS
15. Europa / Bundesarchiv, Bild 102-09251 / CC-BY-SA 3.0 / bit.ly/2YxMd8k
16. Normandie / State Library of Queensland / bit.ly/3fslX6a
17. Normandie / Albert Julius Szunyog / Altair78 / CC3.0
18. Cunard White Star / Public Domain / bit.ly/2AEhCxN
19. (Missed! Oops!)
20. Sunset on Titan Crane / Mark Harkin / CC.2.0 / bit.ly/2UL1Zva
21. Queen Victoria / Public Domain / bit.ly/3fsvR7Q
22. Sir Percy Bates / Public Domain / bit.ly/30UfM6T
All uncredited images are Frame/Cross.
Bibliography:
- Fact Ref [1] - more details can be found: Frank Osborn Braynard, William H. Miller (1991) "Picture History of the Cunard Line",
- Fact Ref [2] - more details can be found: William H. Miller Jr. (2012) "Picture History of the Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth",
- Fact Ref [3] - more details can be found: William H. Miller Jr. (2012) "Picture History of the Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth".
Other references :
- Book / 180 Years of Cunard: www.chriscunard.com/180yearso...
- Book / The Evolution of the Transatlantic Liner: bit.ly/3hztOQV
- Book / Picture History of the Cunard Line: bit.ly/2UO0uws
- Book / Picture History of the Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth: bit.ly/2UQivu9
Music / Sound Effects:
RUclips Audio.
Thumbnail Photo: Colin Hargreaves.
Original Thumbnail Image: Simplon Postcards.
Original Thumbnail Arrow: Jesse Pinkman CC Attribution via Adobe Spark / The Noun Project
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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.
Thank you! Very informative
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've stayed onboard! Glad I didn't read about all the ghost stories til afterwards...
This is excellent. Completely fascinating and your presentation is done with real passion. Thank you Chris.
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.
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
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 🤭🤭🤭
This is pretty good! Helps me with understanding everything, keep up the good work!
Thank you for the informative video!
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 ))))
“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!
I love your videos!
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! 👍👍👍
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...
Fun fact:
Queen Mary is the only ship that exist of the
Cunard White Star Line
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.
Ammar my friend loves ships so wondering if you could make more ship vids
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.
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.