Our collection contains a sampling of what was originally produced and printed by the steamship lines. Sir Basil Smallpiece (Cunard's chairman since November 1965 when he succeeded Sir John Brocklebank) decided that the time had finally come for drastic, long-delayed surgery on the Cunard passenger fleet. The King's Messenger was awaited as he would bring the order to sail. While being constructed in the mid-1930s by John Brown and Company at Clydebank, Scotland, the build was The Cunard colours were painted over with battleship grey, and on the morning of 3 March, the ship quietly left her moorings in the Clyde and proceeded out of the river to sail further down the coast, where she was met by a King's Messenger,[15] who presented sealed orders directly to the captain. 83,673 Gross Tons -- 2,314 Passengers. [22] Despite specifications similar to those of Queen Mary, Queen Elizabeth never held the Blue Riband, for Cunard White Star chairman Sir Percy Bates asked that the two ships do not try to compete against each other. Typical winter conditions in the North Atlantic. Cunard's finances were in a very strong state whilst those of White Star were very poor. That is quite sufficient to ensure her a place in the story of Liverpool ships. When Cunard requested that the Americans send over an inspector to approve the improvement work as it progressed, the authorities declined. The ship sat like a giant beacon in the middle of Clydebank, visible for miles around. A form known as a Schedule C was completed by the master of every Foreign Going Ship, filed within 48 hours of the ships return to a UK port. 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. It took about an hour to manoeuvre the ship's head downstream towards the sea and gradually a crowd of several hundred gathered to watch the QUEEN ELIZABETH slip quietly, almost furtively, by. In the foreground are the United States. ', Sir Percy Bates stressed that the new QUEEN ELIZABETH, 'would be no slavish copy of her sister, the QUEEN MARY', In this photograph the QUEEN MARY is undertaking her speed. A/CPO Lornie Peter Barnard. The Italians put the largest motor ship in the world, the AUGUSTUS, into service, and the White Star Line had laid down a new liner at Belfast. As a result only twelve boilers were needed for the QUEEN ELIZABETH, rather than the twenty-four in the Mary. RMS Queen Elizabeth, World's Largest Liner. It was just over thirty years since she had launched the ship at Clydebank. [15] Parts were shipped to Southampton, and preparations were made to move the ship into the King George V Graving Dock when she arrived. Official logs are found with the agreements and crew lists, where they survive. They first appear in the records around 1852; many have been destroyed, with only those recording a birth or death surviving. The document was signed by the master of the ship and the shipping master of the port, and the seaman would sign their name on the back. [25] However, the strategy did not prove successful, owing to the ship's deep draught, which prevented her from entering various island ports, her width, which prevented her from using the Panama Canal, and also her high fuel costs. [9] Queen Elizabeth herself performed the launching ceremony on 27 September 1938. Cabins designed for two passengers were equipped with. Captain Townley received two telegrams on his arrival, one from his wife congratulating him, and the other from Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth thanking him for the vessel's safe delivery. This is the story of the ship from the planning stages of the late 1920s, her war operations, her amazingly successful passenger service of the late 1940s and 1950s, and her demise in the mid 1960s. This, it is stated, is the largest number carried in any transatlantic ship during the year and gives an average of 1,593 passengers in each sailing. Her propellers thrashed the shallow water into billowing clouds of yellow and black as sand and mud were churned up from the sea bed. October 2 Following the 1854 Merchant Shipping Act, both the master and seaman had to sign a Certificate of Discharge and Character (E-1) on termination of a voyage. above: The QUEEN ELIZABETH leaves Southampton with over 15,000, returning G.I.s in August 1945, and below: her triumphant arrival at New York. The first was New Zealand and the second was Nuku Hiva in the Marquesas Group of islands. 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. Running mate: Queen Mary. She was nonetheless a popular ship. This would take at least an hour plus many miles, and this would not have allowed her to stop within Kessler's observation. After that she sailed to the British naval base at Simonstown, to the south of Cape Town. On the bridge there was the faint sensation of a slight, lurching jolt which some on board never even felt. [21], The ship ran aground on a sandbank off Southampton on 14 April 1947, and was re-floated the following day. Just after midnight on 25th September 1967 the two, The QUEEN MARY found a buyerin the form of the City of Long Beach, California and she left Southampton on 31st October 1967 carrying 1,000 passengers on what was billed as 'The Last Great Cruise', involving a passage around Cape Horn. For almosr five years John Brown & Company had carried on a correspondence with the Clyde Navigation Trust dealing with the safe navigation of the liner on her one and only journey to the open sea. Following his retirement, Sir James was in great demand as a lecturer and one day was telling some schoolchildren of the days when 2,000 lbs of bacon and 32,000 eggs were cooked for breakfast every day. Over 3,000 tons had to be pumped out eventually at a cost of 140,000 to Mr Tung. It was proposed that the Cunard Steamship Company and the Oceanic Steamship Company (the White Star Line) would both sell their North Atlantic fleets and assets, including '534', to a new company to be called Cunard - White Star Limited. 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 QUEEN ELIZABETH at anchor at the Tail of the Bank off Gourock. The starboard side of the promenade deck, looking aft. However another of the still operational boilers was badly damaged: she was now down to just three. [15], Queen Elizabeth left the port of New York on 13 November 1940 for Singapore to receive her troopship conversion. 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. 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. On 1st January 1950 the Cunard Steamship Company took over its wholly-owned subsidiary, Cunard - White Star. The GG Archives is the work and passion of two people, Paul Gjenvick, a professional archivist, and Evelyne Gjenvick, a curator. The loyalty that she was given by her crew, the lifeblood of any ship, was reflected in the service given to her passengers who patronised the ship in vast numbers time and time again. The QUEEN ELIZABETH leaving Clydebank on 26th February 1940. To ensure that good progress was maintained during construction, the General and Shipyard Managers met all the departmental head foremen at the gangway every Friday. Their high speeds allowed them to outrun hazards, principally German U-boats, usually allowing them to travel without a convoy. Then, with the same pair of gold scissors that Queen Mary had used to perform the launching ceremony of her namesake, she cut the red, white and blue ribbon which released the bottle of Empire wine to break, just in time, against the new ship's accelerating bow. It was eventually decided to send the QUEEN ELIZABETH to Canada for drydocking at Esquimalt. Some 10,000 men could, perhaps, be carried in safety according to the lifeboat and liferaft capacity of the ship, but it was considered that the extra 5,000 men who were carried in summer and not provided for in the life-saving equipment were worth the risk, based on the Elizabeth's existing records of speed and reliability. The popularity of the two, The first hint of competition from the airlines came in October 1951 and this resulted in speeding up the turn-round of the ', From the mid 1940s until the mid 1950s both the, 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. Ships did not have an official number before 1855. There was still thick fog in Southampton Water and the QUEEN ELIZABETH returned to Cowes Roads to anchor overnight. 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 submarine dived and the captain identified the ship as the QUEEN ELIZABETH. And so rota pilot F.G. Dawson boarded the, A signal for assistance was sent and - within the hour - the company, port and salvage officials were on board and in conference with Captain Ford. May 11 - 16 First time more than 10,000 persons had traveled on any ship (9,880 troops, 875 crew). pp. The QUEEN ELIZABETH was ready for her trials in early October and sailed for the Clyde on the sixth of the month. The tender ROMSEY which had brought the officials out to the stricken ship made a solo attempt at pulling the liner off the mud, but the towline parted under the unequal strain. Dimensions, 987' x 118' Flt.Lt. The prospect to Cunard was just too daunting, and contributed greatly to the decision to dispose of the QUEEN ELIZABETH. WebRMS Queen Elizabeth Passenger Lists 1947-1954 RMS Queen Elizabeth, World's Largest Liner. The climate of southern Florida was much harder on Queen Elizabeth than the climate of southern California was on Queen Mary. each day in the QUEEN ELIZABETH's first-class restaurant. Queen Elizabeth and Queen Mary were used as troop transports during the Second World War. This had been included on the, The QUEEN ELIZABETH's bow, unlike that of the, As a triumphant fanfare to the launch of the QUEEN ELIZABETH, the. The new ship weighed her bower anchor half an hour later and with a mean draught of 37 feet 9 inches slipped through the anti-submarine boom that stretched across the Clyde between the Gantock Rocks and the Cloch Lighthouse at 8.15am. Wooden decks had to caulked and electric cables connected. The starboard side of the boat deck on the QUEEN ELIZABETH. Three years later it was announced that the QUEEN ELIZABETH would return to the Clyde in December 1965 for extensive improvements by her builders, John Brown & Company. 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. He said that it had become a source of irritation to him and his colleagues on the board. [19] After 1942, the two Queens were relocated to the North Atlantic for the transportation of American troops to Europe. REINA DEL MAR PACIFIC STEAM NAVIGATION CO. The salvage attempt at the first suitable high tide failed and the, The QUEEN ELIZABETH never enjoyed the same affection that the Cunard men held for the QUEEN MARY, being described as the 'colder' of the two ships. One sample is held by The National Archives and the other by the National Maritime Museum. It was pointed out to the Southern Railway Company, the owners of Southampton Docks, that by 1933 a dry dock capable of taking a vessel 1,075 feet in length would be needed. 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. May 11 - 16 First time more than 10,000 persons had traveled on any ship (9,880 troops, 875 crew). Queen Elizabeth was retired after her final crossing to New York, on 8 December 1968. It can be appreciated that the jibe that Great Britain charged $100 a head to take soldiers to the battlefields of Europe was calculated to be extremely hurtful to Anglo-American friendship. War seemed very much to be a likelihood on that September day, but the King had sent a message which Queen Elizabeth incorporated into her speech. The world's three largest liners were together for the first and, as events were to prove, the last time. 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. 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. L.Sea. 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. Dredging had not been completed at Port Everglades so Commodore Marr was instructed to cruise the Elizabeth slowly down the coast to 'show the flag'. Captain Duncan Cameron, the Southampton pilot, was still on board. 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. [9], In 1955, during an annual overhaul at Southampton, England, Queen Elizabeth was fitted with underwater fin stabilisers to smooth the ride in rough seas. WebRMS Queen Elizabeth Passenger Lists 1947-1954 RMS Queen Elizabeth, World's Largest Liner. It is comparatively short - a long weekend by the express steamers or six and a half hours by air. 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. The QUEEN ELIZABETH in the Firth of Clyde (Inchgreen), The QUEEN ELIZABETH passing the Cloch Lighthouse. Chesney Henry. The highest number that she carried on any one voyage was 15,932 passengers and crew, but the record for the highest number ever carried in one ship goes to the QUEEN MARY with 16,683. Internally the condensers and oil cooler inlets were cleared of shells and gravel. Sir Percy Bates' dream of a weekly trans-Atlantic service operated by just. in the Firth of Clyde, the U.K. terminal port for the G.I. This website uses cookies to improve functionality. The market could only assume 2,700,000 of the risk. The Americans demanded that the QUEEN ELIZABETH be brought up to the new standards of fire protection which would have to include the fitting of additional fire sprinklers and the boxing-in of stairways that could otherwise act as deadly draught tunnels in the event of fire. During the year there were 24 fewer westbound sailings and 22 fewer eastbound sailings than in 1960. Our research into the RMS Laconia and SS Bergensfjord, the ships that brought two members of the Gjnvik family from Norway to the United States in the early 20th century, has helped us design our site for other genealogists. It was controlled simply by the necessity to provide sufficient passenger accommodation and propulsion to operate a two-ship weekly express service across the North Atlantic. There was no one on deck, but when the yacht was hailed an old lady appeared from below. The Pacific was too dangerous for her with both German and Japanese submarines on the prowl. The charred remnants of her last ensign were cut from the flagpole and framed in 1972, and still adorn the wall of the officers' mess of marine police HQ in Hong Kong. There was no call at Cherbourg; the ship was fully booked from Southampton and much work still needed to be done to make the harbour at the French port safe again. L.Sea. 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. WebThe Queen Elizabeth is the newest addition to the Cunard Line and made its debut voyage in October 2010. 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. It was agreed that the QUEEN ELIZABETH should spend twelve weeks on the Clyde (at her old wartime anchorage) plus ten weeks at Berth 101 in Southampton and in the King George V dry dock. These earlier records were organised by port of registry and then alphabetically by name of ship (see the respective sections below for advice on finding earlier records). The Government then proposed to lend the new company 9.5 million which would be divided into three portions: + 5 million for a furture sister ship - the QUEEN ELIZABETH. With the aid of two local tugs the liner finally put down two anchors some six miles off Oranjestad, Aruba. CPO. WebRMS Queen Elizabeth History Pages. Queen Elizabeth and Queen Mary were used as troop transports during the Second World War. The summer overhauls were routine and no special work was done. Both fires were considered suspicious and detectives questioned 2,000 Thorneycroft workmen and some 400 crew. was given a coloured disc or card (red, white or blue) and this indicated the section of the ship in which he must remain during the voyage. Sanders Samuel Donald . The National Archives holds all the surviving crew lists and agreements for the Second World War and the succeeding years up to 1950. This anticipated event never occurred and was considered very unlikely to occur, so the well space was plated in and used for additional accommodation. This rake also gave the Elizabeth a longer overall length: 1,031 feet as against the 1,019 feet of the QUEEN MARY. Apparently the torpedo had exploded well away from the ship. Due to the outbreak of the Second World War, these two events were postponed and Cunard's plans were shattered. This was not a record breaking passage, and not surpassing the time of her running mate, the Queen Mary, but on this occasion no special effort was made to accomplish that feat. Agreements and crew lists from the 19th century are occasionally accompanied by ships logs and this becomes increasingly common for 20th century records. The RMS Queen Elizabeth was an ocean liner operated by Cunard Line. In January 1931 agreement was reached with the New York Port Authority for a thousand-foot long pier at a rent of 48,000 a year. Agreements for Home Trade Ships (Schedule B)These agreements covered coastal and fishing ships. The result brightened up the ship considerably after the years of drabness. For the purpose of this list, they have been included as Cunard ships. On 28th July 1948 King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, accompanied by their younger daughter Princess Margaret Rose, were received on board the QUEEN ELIZABETH, the flagship of Britain's merchant fleet. This would also free the fitting-out berth which was urgently needed for the DUKE OF YORK. Commenced her first regular Southampton-New York voyage, October 16, 1946, making the crossing in four days, 16 hours, 18 minutes. The QUEEN ELIZABETH in dry dock at Esquimalt, Vancouver Island, BC. Cunard retired Queen Mary in 1967 and Queen Elizabeth completed her final Atlantic crossing to New York on 5 November 1968. A group of the Purser's staff in the Tourist Purser's cabin. Towards the end of 1940 additional seamen arrived on board the QUEEN ELIZABETH, having travelled from Halifax, N.S. WebHMS Queen Elizabeth is the largest and most powerful vessel ever constructed for the Royal Navy. [citation needed]. The Americans wanted the work to be completed and then for the, The QUEEN MARY and the QUEEN ELIZABETH met for the last time when they were both at sea. Bdmn. The Company injected $1 million into a new company called 'The Elizabeth (Cunard) Corporation' and held an 85% share. For the QUEEN ELIZABETH the war was over. Search inBT 387for agreements and crew lists of allied foreign ships requisitioned or chartered by the British government in the Second World War. Shuttle'. 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. This, then, is the story of the QUEEN ELIZABETH, the world's largest liner. The Elizabeth sailed at 8.pm. Kessler always maintained that the ship was the QUEEN ELIZABETH. [15] Queen Elizabeth zigzagged across the Atlantic to elude German U-boats and took six days to reach New York at an average speed of 26 knots. Many of the QUEEN ELIZABETH's fittings had been placed ashore in New York, Sydney and Singapore when she was converted into a troopship and all these globally scattered items had to be returned to Southampton for refurbishment, assembly, sorting and fitting. Rear Admiral Carruthers Joseph William. In May 1930, Cunard began to make tentative enquiries about the possibility of dry-docking facilities at Southampton for its two new superliners. Dimensions, 987' x 118' However, because of the prestigious nature of the Elizabeth's maiden arrival at New York as a commercial passenger liner, Commodore Bisset decided to press on and dock the ship at Pier 90 without the aid of tugs if necessary. After Esquimalt the QUEEN ELIZABETH sailed for San Francisco, and, on arrival, briefly ran aground near the Golden Gate Bridge. Four days later she arrived at Halifax, Nova Scotia, with 12,517 passengers and 864 crew. Mildenhall Wilfred Charles. For another year, her sibling did military service, returning troops and G.I. 09:00 to 17:00. Cunard's appropriated pilot, Captain Bowyer, was not available as he was 'fogbound' on another vessel. and the QUEEN ELIZABETH together at New York on 10th March 1940. 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. [15] The names of Brown's shipyard employees were booked to local hotels in Southampton to give a false trail of information, and Captain John Townley was appointed as her first master. Speed varied between 7 and 11 knots, with the higher speed using 300 tons of oil per day. The Directors decided that work must stop on No.534 - the QUEEN MARY - at noon on Friday 11th December 1931. Sir Basil Smallpiece said: Like a Greek tragedy the tale of woe gathered force. The weather was moderate and only slight natural rolling occurred so the liner was force-rolled and the stabilisers immediately became effective. They were ferried out to the liner on the Clyde steamer QUEEN MARY II. [9] Elizabeth, as she was now called, arrived in Port Everglades on 8 December 1968 and opened to tourists in February 1969, well before Queen Mary, which opened two years later, in 1971. Names and Register Tickets of Crew (Foreign Trade) (Schedule G)A list of the crew, with their Register Ticket numbers, to be filed for a foreign-going ship on sailing. 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 Cunard White Star Tourist Class, January 1949. 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