Queen Elizabeth was retired after her final crossing to New York, on 8 December 1968. As an indication of the worsening European situation, the keel of the Royal Navy's newest battleship, HMS DUKE OF YORK, was laid on 5th May 1937 on the slipway adjoining the QUEEN ELIZABETH. 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. A painting by Captain Stephen J Card of the two 'Queens' passing in, mid-Atlantic. She then stopped for a few minutes before proceeding on her way. Later that day, at the time when she was due to arrive at Southampton, the city was bombed by the Luftwaffe. As well as state-of-the-art weaponry and communications systems, HMS Queen Elizabeth boasts five gyms, a chapel and a medical centre. The small vessel's skipper hoisted a flag signal: "What ship is that?" Check the opening hours and contact details for local archives usingfind an archive. In December 1974 the decision was taken to scrap the remains of the QUEEN ELIZABETH. On 29 December her engines were tested for the first time, running from 0900 to 1600 with the propellers disconnected to monitor her oil and steam operating temperatures and pressures. In the centre, on the south side of Pier 90, is the QUEEN MARY, and across. After several crossings with Joey on board, the crew began to grumble that the weather seemed to have taken a turn for the worse. 160,000 s.h.p. For the purpose of this list, they have been included as Cunard ships. The next largest category comprised business travel and if current medical opinion was correct there was a danger that modern airspeed had outstepped the capacity of man to adapt himself to its stress. It was an hour before fire fighting tugs arrived at the scene, and after four hours of futile effort the liner was left to burn herself out. The QUEEN ELIZABETH alongside the Gare Maritime at Cherbourg, The Duke and Duchess of Windsor were regular. The railway company expressed the view that the projected dry dock could not be started for some eight to ten years and that it would take between four and five years to complete. The market could only assume 2,700,000 of the risk. WebThe National Records of Scotland holds agreements and crew lists under the reference BT 3, covering 1867-1913, for Scottish ships only. In the event the results have been very far from satisfactory, The Board's decision to withdraw the QUEEN ELIZABETH is part of the unrelenting process of facing realities in its determination to put the Company on to a paying basis.". To a post-war Britain she was to become what the 'Mary' had represented to the country after the Great Depression - a national symbol of recovery from adversity. and acceptance trials over the Arran Mile, in the Firth of Clyde. Shuttle crossing. WebLists can also include passengers who were family members of seamen. From the outset the intention had been to operate a two-ship service on the North Atlantic. By New Year's Day 1972 the liner floated resplendent in her new livery of white hull and orange funnels, with the legend 'Orient Overseas Line' emblazoned along each side of her hull. Despite the effectiveness of the new stabilisers to minimise rolling, nothing could be done to reduce the pitching. Work on the QUEEN ELIZABETH proceeded rapidly and by February 1937 Colvilles were supplying steel to Clydebank for this ship at the rate of 500 tons a week. 'Standee' bunks and accommodated up to eight G.I.s. Digitized Passenger ListsOceanic to Ryndam. Experience had shown that once converted to oil burning, these ships could turn round in port in eighteen hours when necessary. WebThe Queen Elizabeth is the newest addition to the Cunard Line and made its debut voyage in October 2010. 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. WebHMS Queen Elizabeth is the largest and most powerful vessel ever constructed for the Royal Navy. The records contain details of UK merchant seamen who served on the ships. WebScenes on the main podium prior the launching, the two Princesses are notable, especially Princess Elizabeth , our future Queen! Dr Maguire recalled that the cruiser HMAS SYDNEY had been sunk by the German KORMORAN without a single survivor only a few days before, not far from the present position. This would have been the OCEANIC, whose keel was laid at Harland & Wolff's yard in 1928. 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. Try search terms such as ship register or registrar general shipping and seamen. However the year 1957 proved to be the irreversible turning point when an equal number of people were transported by air as were carried by sea. In June 1952 the QUEEN ELIZABETH was recording some very fast passages, just prior to the entry into service of the UNITED STATES on 4th July. The, After disembarking the U.S. troops at Sydney on 6th April 1942, the QUEEN ELIZABETH remained in port for thirteen days before sailing for Fremantle on 19th April. Just over 400 crew (mostly from the AQUITANIA) had joined the QUEEN ELIZABETH at Clydebank, under the command of Captain Jack Townley, signing Articles for a short coastwise voyage which would ostensibly terminate at Southampton where a hurriedly prepared dry-docking plan had been received by the port authority. The UNITED STATES took the 'Blue Riband' on her maiden voyage. She docked on the north side of Pier 90 at 5.pm on the afternoon of Thursday, 7th March 1940. AB. The planned several-week trip turned into months as the crew battled with boiler issues and a fire. It was reasoned, therefore, that if the passage time could be reduced to five days, it would be possible for two ships on a fortnightly service to do the work of three. With just enough room for a man to squeeze into his standee. Captain Bisset said, after the war, that an explosion was heard, Altogether the QUEEN ELIZABETH made 35 round voyages across the North Atlantic on the 'G.I. By coincidence she had grounded in almost the same geographical spot as the AQUITANIA, ten years previously almost to the day. The work would include the installation of full air conditioning, the fitting of private showers and toilets in much of the cabin class and tourist class accommodation, and the creation of a lido at the after end of the promenade deck, incorporating an outdoor heated swimming pool. The summer overhauls for the 'Queens' were abandoned in 1962 which meant that the two liners would both be available at the height of the tourist season, instead of being 'off duty' for a week to ten days. Within that context, as Sir Percy Bates, the chairman of the Cunard Steamship Company, never tired of explaining: In May 1930, Cunard began to make tentative enquiries about the possibility of dry-docking facilities at Southampton for its two new superliners. A group of the Purser's staff in the Tourist Purser's cabin. Air travel increased across the Atlantic by 26% in 1958, whilst sea carryings reduced by just four and a half per cent. Alternatively, browseBT 98/1-139(1747 to 1853) to view all the ports and years for which there are records in this period. Seaman Lornie Peter Barnard. The Pacific was too dangerous for her with both German and Japanese submarines on the prowl. Chesney Henry. 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. The passenger carrying business was now losing money: 1.9 million in 1962, 1.6 million in 1963 and 3 million in 1965. Tonnage: 83,673. [14] The ship was then sent for fitting out. Her brother, the Hon. Townley had previously commanded Aquitania on one voyage, and several of Cunard's smaller vessels before that. Eventually both the House of Commons and the House of Lords voted and the Bill was passed on 27th March 1934. One detonation was heard. Two thousand men were ferried out daily to work on the SEAWISE UNIVERSITY as she lay at anchor off Hong Kong. BT 387 is arranged by ranges of ships names therefore you will need to browse the series. 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. 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. These are undeniable facts. Lady Assistant Pursers were introduced on the Cunard liners after the, Second World War. The QUEEN MARY gained the Blue Riband for the fastest crossing of the Atlantic from the NORMANDIE in 1938, but the Cunard Line always refused to accept the trophy. An alternative site was found at Fort Lauderdale in Florida. INS forms used to record information about passengers, crew members, and aliens: Form 680 or I-480, List or Manifest of Aliens Employed on the Vessel as Members of the Crew (used in 1945) Form I-481, List or Manifest of all Persons Employed on a Great Lakes Vessel (used in 1945) Commodore Geoffrey Marr compared the departure to the farewell given to the, The other ships that were in Southampton that unhappy morning saluted the QUEEN ELIZABETH as she passed but received no acknowledgement to their respectful signals. In 1961 Cunard liners were to make 207 sailings to and from New York. Mr Tung proposed to name his ship the SEAWISE UNIVERSITY. Cunard had insisted that he sail with the ship on her supposed coastal voyage as part of a ruse to throw enemy agents off the scent as to her actual destination. So much for the cynics who, in the early days of the war, had prophesied that the Queens would lie uselessly alongside their safe pier in New York for the duration of the war! During a conference on board, the U.S. military was told how many men had been transported on each Sydney - Suez voyage. In New York she found herself moored alongside both Queen Mary and the French Line's Normandie, the only time all three of the world's largest ocean liners were ever berthed together. Undoubtedly the incomplete QUEEN ELIZABETH was the greatest dilemma facing John Brown's on the outbreak of war. 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. Dimensions, 987' x 118' (1,031' o.l.). The whole affair turned into a spectacular fiasco as the 'Mary' was undercrewed and had to cross the equator twice without the benefit of air-conditioning. In September 1969 a hurricane warning caused the then almost deserted ship to be partially scuttled to prevent her tearing away from her berth. On August Bank Holiday, 1950, a yacht cruised across the fairway in the track of the QUEEN ELIZABETH. 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. Cunard hoped that its continuing involvement with the QUEEN ELIZABETH would reap worthwhile benefits in the years to come. Many of these souvenir passenger lists have disappeared over the years. In September 1959 an announcement was made to the effect that an independent committee of three, headed by Lord Chandos, had been set up to examine the Cunard Company's proposals for replacing the 'Queens'. More men, boiler tubes and other equipment were flown to Aruba and after satisfactory repairs the SEAWISE UNIVERSITY sailed to Curacao for fresh water and fuel oil. With potentially upward of 500 crew requiring to scramble up from their quarters below, the sheer climb would have presented quite a hazard, particularly in bad weather and at a time of emergency. Cunard White Star Tourist Class, January 1949. [6] She was moved to Port Everglades, Florida, and converted to a tourist attraction, which opened in February 1969. With the forward well deck omitted, a more refined hull shape was achieved, and a sharper, raked bow was added for a third bow-anchor point. The weather was moderate and only slight natural rolling occurred so the liner was force-rolled and the stabilisers immediately became effective. Cherbourg was chosen as the French port for the new ships as it had deeper water and a larger harbour than Le Havre. 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. The ships would have to run without repairs for eleven months of the year. the NORMANDIE, the QUEEN MARY and the QUEEN ELIZABETH. One sample is held by The National Archives and the other by the National Maritime Museum. Over the next three days the ship took on eighteen of her twenty-six lifeboats. On 8th September 1951 the QUEEN ELIZABETH left Southampton on her 100th round voyage to New York since she entered passenger service in October 1946. Recently introduced legislation by the International Maritime Commission also influenced the board's decision. 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. 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. Additionally, the proposed site was adjacent to Philadelphia International Airport wit its deafening aircraft noise every few minutes, and finally a nearby oil refinery would waft odours over the ship. Gourock farewell'. Use the search box contained withinBT 98 to search by year and name of ships port of registry. Another obvious difference between the two ships was the lack of a forward well deck on the new QUEEN ELIZABETH. This should be seen in the context of the QUEEN MARY's record of 31.69 knots when she took the Blue Riband of the Atlantic in September 1938. [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. on her departure from the Clyde on 12th March 1966. With White Star now under Cunard's wing, Harland & Wolff at Belfast were also invited to tender, a position not previously open to them. When a speed of 25 knots had been reached and maintained for one hour, the escorting warships were informed that the 'engine trials' had been satisfactory and that there was no objection to their standing down. Just after midnight on 25th September 1967 the two 'Queens' passed each other in mid-Atlantic, the QUEEN MARY makingher final eastbound transatlantic crossing. On 27th May the Clydebank men were told they had the order. GGA Image ID # 1d3776ba5f. During this time, and for a while after, she was under American control through a lend-lease agreement. On boarding, each G.I. Within each box the lists are randomly arranged. Keel laid on December 4, 1936. After the formal speeches had been completed there was a pause as high tide and slack water were awaited. August 2 - 7 First time a complete division was carried on any ship. In the foreground are the United States. Agreements for Home Trade Ships (Schedule B)These agreements covered coastal and fishing ships. The Australians also needed what was left of their depleted army for their country's own defence in case of Japanese invasion. Some two thirds of Cunard's passengers crossed the Atlantic on holiday: hence the company's slogan, In September 1959 an announcement was made to the effect that an independent committee of three, headed by Lord Chandos, had been set up to examine the Cunard Company's proposals for replacing the ', The year 1960 proved to be another good one for Cunard. Other than silt found in some inlets, there was very little evidence of the grounding. The new ship was constructed on No.4 slipway by using 5-ton derrick cranes and a 10-ton tower crane. Queen Elizabeth and Queen Mary were used as troop transports during the Second World War. 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. However another of the still operational boilers was badly damaged: she was now down to just three. Alternatively, browseBT 98/140-563to view all the ports covered for this period and the alphabetical ranges of ships for each port. A temporary electrical fault had developed with the Elizabeth's whistle control gear and she left Southampton in a silence that only added to the almost furtive feeling of the departure. This rake also gave the Elizabeth a longer overall length: 1,031 feet as against the 1,019 feet of the QUEEN MARY. She had been designed for five-day transatlantic passages, not for long voyages. The popularity of the two 'Queens' meant enormous profits for the Cunard Line and the two ships repaid their original investments many times over. The QUEEN MARY (as '534' became after all the secrecy) was launched nearly six months later on 26th September 1934. Bisset was under strict instructions from Sir Percy Bates, who was also aboard the trials, that all that was required from the ship was two measured runs of no more than 30 knots and that she was not permitted to attempt to attain a higher speed record than Queen Mary. 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. The Elizabeth sailed at 8.pm. The Official Number was allocated on registration, retained for the life of the ship, and was not reused. By midnight on 9th January the fire had burnt through five decks and the SEAWISE UNIVERSITY had developed a starboard list of 17 degrees, the start of a slow and unstoppable capsize. It was against this background that the Cunard Company began the design stage for two new ships. With the passage of time the area of Hong Kong harbour where the SEAWISE UNIVERSITY (ex Cunard - White Star liner QUEEN ELIZABETH) lay has been filled in and a new airport built on the reclaimed land. The QUEEN ELIZABETH almost ready for launching, The QUEEN ELIZABETH towers over the tenements of Clydebank. This also suffered from low bookings and became known as the. The hull was cut into sections of up to 250 tons each and, in all, some 45,000 tons of metal were lifted from the wreck. Some 30 Cunard staff had been retained, mostly engineers to assist in running the boilers and generators. Tonnage: 83,673. The size of the two proposed superliners was not dictated in any way by a desire on the part of Cunard to have 'Big Ships' for their own sake. Search by name of ship inBT 100for the agreements and crew lists of a selection of celebrated ships. WebHMS Queen Elizabeth during the Second World War 1939-1945. Not until the, Steam was raised on all boilers on 1st March. [8] The official contract between Cunard and government financiers was signed on 6 October 1936. Denials of this speculation by British shipping representatives were not accepted. The American liner made 44 Atlantic crossings and carried 70,104 passengers in 1955. Throughout the 'G.I. August 2 - 7 First time a complete division was carried on any ship. 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. Rear Admiral Carruthers Joseph William. After anchoring off Aruba the SEAWISE UNIVERSITY drifted, dragging her anchor, out to deep water. Captain Duncan Cameron, the Southampton pilot, was still on board. A 'Farewell Dinner' was held at sea on Sunday 3rd November and the following day the QUEEN ELIZABETH arrived back at Southampton for the last time, coming to the end of the career for which she had been designed. Launched, September 27, 1938. The QUEEN ELIZABETH at anchor at the Tail of the Bank in the Firth, of Clyde as John Brown's workmen transform her from a troopship. Boat drill was carried out on departure from New York. her summer overhaul in the King George V dry dock. By six o'clock the next morning, thirteen tugs had arrived from Southampton, Portsmouth Dockyard and Poole. By using this site, you accept the use of cookies on your device. They first appear in the records around 1852; many have been destroyed, with only those recording a birth or death surviving. On 14th April 1947 the QUEEN ELIZABETH was homeward bound and after leaving Cherbourg encountered thick fog in the Channel. The steamer observed by Kessler had been travelling at speed. 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. 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. Cunard was determined that the new ship would be based on the latest revolutionary developments that had taken place in naval architecture and marine engineering. The QUEEN ELIZABETH leaving the fitting-out berth at John Brown's. The two funnels were self-supporting and braced internally to give a cleaner-looking appearance. The SEAWISE UNIVERSITY was comparatively underpowered and manned by an inexperienced crew. 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. Her carrying capacity was over 15,000 troops and over 900 crew. They are (left to right). For the purpose of this list, they have been included as Cunard ships. 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