- Titanic proceeding to Halifax | Page 11 - Encyclopedia Titanica
There is a note that Queen Mary "rolled over" during part of the voyage This must have been one of those terrible rolls that the Queen Mary had in those days If it helps, in the novel The Poseidon Adventure, the Poseidon is very clearly based on RMS Queen Mary
- Queen Mary December 9 1967 December 9 2002 35 Years
Hello All: Today is the 35th anniversary of the RMS Queen Mary completing her final voyage "The Great Cruise" No 1002 from Southampton to Long Beach The Queen Mary left Southampton England on October 31, 1967, and arrived finally in Long Beach on December 9, 1967 after a forty day
- Was asbestos used in construction of famous steamships
Does anyone know if asbestos was used in the construction of Titanic, Olympic, Lusitania, Majestic, Aquitania, Queen Mary, Rotterdam, and other ships? If so, except for Titanic and Lusitania, did employees file claims against the steamship companies for injuries? I recently learned that the
- Current state of Queen Mary Bankruptcy - Encyclopedia Titanica
I have read this article on another website concerning the problems of the Queen Mary in Long Beach,California The article does state that Long Beach officials say that the possibilities that Long Beach would sell the Queen Mary are very slim Since I live on the East Coast of the U S in New
- Titanic vs Queen Mary | Encyclopedia Titanica Message Board
We've stayed at Hotel Queen Mary at Long Beach on a few occasions Even though the hotel rooms are in converted First Class Suites they are no match in luxuriousness to those depicted on Titanic (At least if James Cameron got it right in his sets for Rose and Cal's Rooms, Dining Saloon
- Movies Queen Mary Appears in - Encyclopedia Titanica
The Queen Mary is seen docked in New York Harbor in January 1941 in Michael Bay's movie Pearl Harbor in her Cunard colors This is inaccurate, however, as she was painted grey after WWII began and already serving as a troopship Did the filmmakers know this was inaccurate, and just included it in the film as an artistic license? Here is a pic
- Titanic vs Modern cruise ships - Encyclopedia Titanica
I'm not an expert in ships and ship design But to me there are 3 design periods: end XIX bigining XX (Lusitania, Olympic, etc), mid XX (queen mary, Caronia, Rex, Bremen (maybe one of the first ) and the modern day design cruise that you can see above, which are all pre fabricated hotels that are not even launched but simply putted to float!
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