Queen Elizabeth leaving New York during her last voyage, 1968. WebHMS Queen Elizabeth is the largest and most powerful vessel ever constructed for the Royal Navy. Following this ultimatum the Southern Railway decided to go ahead with the construction of a dry dock 1,200 feet in length, 135 feet wide and 48 feet deep, with a wide area outside the entrance for the ship to swing. [7], On the day RMS Queen Mary sailed on her maiden voyage, Cunard's chairman, Sir Percy Bates, informed his ship designers, headed by George Paterson, that it was time to start designing the planned second ship. However, over the winter of 1967/68, Cunard received several serious enquiries from potential buyers. L.Sea. After a call at Rio de Janeiro, the Elizabeth finally arrived inNew York to begin what became known as the 'G.I. Shuttle'. This was simply a record of the total number of crew (known as a muster roll), but it evolved into what are known as crew lists and agreements. The SEAWISE UNIVERSITY was comparatively underpowered and manned by an inexperienced crew. 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 1947-02-13 RMS Queen Elizabeth Passenger List, 1947-05-24 RMS Queen Elizabeth Passenger List, 1947-09-11 RMS Queen Elizabeth Passenger List, 1948-05-14 RMS Queen Elizabeth Passenger List, 1948-06-24 RMS Queen Elizabeth Passenger List, 1948-10-31 RMS Queen Elizabeth Passenger List, 1949-05-06 RMS Queen Elizabeth Passenger List, 1949-08-27 RMS Queen Elizabeth Passenger List, 1949-10-14 RMS Queen Elizabeth Passenger List, 1950-11-16 RMS Queen Elizabeth Passenger List, 1952-05-07 RMS Queen Elizabeth Passenger List, 1952-06-18 RMS Queen Elizabeth Passenger List, 1953-06-11 RMS Queen Elizabeth Passenger List, 1954-08-26 RMS Queen Elizabeth Passenger List, 1954-12-23 RMS Queen Elizabeth Passenger List. The following afternoon, Tuesday 27th February, the QUEEN ELIZABETH was officially handed over to Cunard - White Star at 3.pm as she lay at anchor at the Tail of the Bank - untested and untried. It is comparatively short - a long weekend by the express steamers or six and a half hours by air. The QUEEN ELIZABETH at full speed in the North Atlantic. The list was kept on board and then sent to the Register Office of Merchant Seamen, the central administration office of the Merchant Navy, on the ships return to Britain. The fins were retractable into the hull to save fuel in smooth seas and for docking. THE CUNARD WHITE STAR LINER QUEEN ELIZABETH. The QUEEN ELIZABETH approaching her berth at Pier 90 in the North River, at New York in the late 1940s. As Sir Percy Bates was fond of saying: "These two new, vessels represent the smallest and slowest ships which can, economically maintain a two-ship weekly trans-Atlantic service. This would take at least an hour plus many miles, and this would not have allowed her to stop within Kessler's observation. The QUEEN ELIZABETH was not successful as a cruise ship. There are a small number of log books in BT 98 and BT 99. 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. After V.E. By six o'clock the next morning, thirteen tugs had arrived from Southampton, Portsmouth Dockyard and Poole. The first stop was at Trinidad where she rendezvoused with a tanker five miles off Port of Spain. The NORMANDIE had one edge on the QUEEN MARY in being aesthetically more pleasing through her revolutionary streamlining and lack of visible deck 'clutter'. There were only five dry docks in the world which could accommodate the Elizabeth. The Company injected $1 million into a new company called 'The Elizabeth (Cunard) Corporation' and held an 85% share. Chamberlain was also convinced of the tremendous importance from a prestige point of view of new large British ships steaming into New York harbour. 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. 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. It was certainly the last time that the two 'Queens' ever stopped at sea in war time. Sir Percy Bates told Commodore Bisset: "We do not expect you to attempt to make speed records either on the trials or on the maiden voyage. Ships did not have an official number before 1855. The QUEEN ELIZABETH had now been in the water for over two years since her launch on 27th September 1938. As a result only twelve boilers were needed for the QUEEN ELIZABETH, rather than the twenty-four in the Mary. Cunard's appropriated pilot, Captain Bowyer, was not available as he was 'fogbound' on another vessel. WebSearch and download () lists of passengers boarding at UK and Irish ports and travelling to places such as America, Canada, India, New Zealand and Australia between 1890 and 1960 (BT 27) on the findmypast.co.uk website and also on the Ancestry.co.uk website. Promenade deck 724 feet long. The experiment lasted three voyages before the bandits were given a dishonourable discharge. Further details of available sources are described in: In 1747, following an Act of Parliament, a fund for the relief of disabled seamen was set up, using money taken from seamens wages. Portions of the hull that were not salvaged were left at the bottom of the bay. Dimensions, 987' x 118' Despite the effectiveness of the new stabilisers to minimise rolling, nothing could be done to reduce the pitching. Use this guide for advice on how to find British merchant shipping records known as crew lists and agreements, originally known as muster books, and log books. CPO. The QUEEN ELIZABETH (centre) and the QUEEN MARY (left). to the Ambrose Channel Light Vessel off New York at 27.91 knots. The agreements were between master and crew and are also called Articles of agreement. The QUEEN ELIZABETH slips away from John Brown's shipyard. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. 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. Four days later she arrived at Halifax, Nova Scotia, with 12,517 passengers and 864 crew. One major factor that limited the ship's departure date was that there were only two spring tides that year that would see the water level high enough for Queen Elizabeth to leave the Clydebank shipyard,[15] and German intelligence were aware of this fact. THE CUNARD - WHITE STAR LINER 'QUEEN ELIZABETH'. 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. This was known as a 'degaussing' coil. [15], Queen Elizabeth left the port of New York on 13 November 1940 for Singapore to receive her troopship conversion. The ship was then secured so that no one could board her without prior permission, including port officials. Image of a ships muster roll 1770-1775 (catalogue reference: BT 98/3). [15] Another factor prompting Queen Elizabeth's departure was the necessity to clear the fitting-out berth at the shipyard for the battleship HMSDuke of York,[15] which was in need of its final fitting-out. From 1857 onwards, the records are arranged in BT 98 by ships Official Number (ON). 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. Shuttle work in earnest. To economise on fuel, the QUEEN MARY was using just two of her four propellers. For the two meals a day that were provided there were six sittings, each of forty-five minutes. 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. the NORMANDIE, the QUEEN MARY and the QUEEN ELIZABETH. John Brown Image The queen is greeted by Sir Percy Bates of Cunard John Brown Image The front cover of the official launching booklet for the Queen Elizabeth With the introduction in 1855 of a central registry, all ships were given an official number as soon as practicable. [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. The ship's company was brought up to 465 and at 3.30pm on 13th November 1940 the, The QUEEN ELIZABETH had now been in the water for over two years since her launch on 27th September 1938. The QUEEN ELIZABETH encountered a severe storm on 18th October, the day on which Commodore Bisset had arranged a memorial service for Sir Percy Bates. For a short time the Queen Elizabeth, now under the command of Commodore Geoffrey Trippleton Marr attempted a dual role in order to become more profitable; when not plying her usual transatlantic route, which she now alternated in her sailings with the French Line's SS France, the ship cruised between New York and Nassau. The following morning, 18th April 1947, she steamed into Southampton - fifty hours late ! AB. Each piece in this series covers a number of ships and therefore appears in our catalogue as a range of numbers. research. This would also free the fitting-out berth which was urgently needed for the DUKE OF YORK. She would carry 1,800 students plus 800 cruise passengers on world-wide voyages. Alternatively, browseBT 98/140-563to view all the ports covered for this period and the alphabetical ranges of ships for each port. The dock could be emptied of its 180,000 tons of water in four hours. The market could only assume 2,700,000 of the risk. <<<<<< >>>>>>>. WebThe RMS Queen Elizabeth was an ocean liner operated by Cunard Line. 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. Mr Tung's plan (he liked to be called 'C Y') was based on an idea first proposed by U Thant, the Secretary General of the United Nations, that a ship be used for educational purposes whilst spreading goodwill and understanding amongst nations and between different cultures. On 27th May the Clydebank men were told they had the order. Townley and his hastily signed-on crew of four hundred Cunard personnel were told by a company representative before they left to pack for a voyage where they could be away from home for up to six months.[16]. The installation would be the largest of its kind in a passenger liner and consisted of two sets of stabilising machinery situated in separate compartments. 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. Lady Assistant Pursers were introduced on the Cunard liners after the, Second World War. Cunard always refused to acknowledge the recently introduced Hales Trophy as a tangible symbol of the achievement. The QUEEN ELIZABETH at the anchorage at the Tail of the Bank. On 11th July Bates replied asking Piggot to, 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 starboard side of the promenade deck, looking aft. For the first time it seemed possible that two ships could be built which would be able to maintain a weekly express service between Southampton and New York, doing the work previously done by three ships. 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. She did, however, remain all the while under Cunard management with British officers and crew. 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 Elizabeth sailed at 8.pm. [9][10] It was announced that on 23 August 1939 King George VI and Queen Elizabeth were to visit the ship and tour the engine room and that 24 April 1940 was to be the proposed date of her maiden voyage. The new centrally-placed companionway is in place in this photo and there's a repaint where the ladders once were. We can either copy our records onto paper or deliver them to you digitally, Visit us in Kew to see original documents or view online records for free, Consider paying for First Armored Infantry Division (15,125 troops, 863 crew). The QUEEN ELIZABETH making her final arrival at Southampton at the. Agreements and crew lists from the 19th century are occasionally accompanied by ships logs and this becomes increasingly common for 20th century records. The NORMANDIE - the QUEEN MARY's arch rival on the North Atlantic. This would have been the OCEANIC, whose keel was laid at Harland & Wolff's yard in 1928. GGA Image ID # 1d3776ba5f. Typical winter conditions in the North Atlantic. The ELIZABETH just before she sailed from Port Everglades. On the orders of the neutral American government (in accordance with the Geneva Convention), only maintenance or construction work of a non-beligerent nature could be carried out on the liners moored along the New York waterfront. Cunard retired Queen Mary in 1967 and Queen Elizabeth completed her final Atlantic crossing to New York on 5 November 1968. With White Star now under Cunard's wing, Harland & Wolff at Belfast were also invited to tender, a position not previously open to them. There was a great rumpus and the yacht owner was traced. Six years of war service had never permitted the formal sea trials to take place, so they were now finally undertaken. She had been designed for five-day transatlantic passages, not for long voyages. 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. WebScenes on the main podium prior the launching, the two Princesses are notable, especially Princess Elizabeth , our future Queen! !!! Commenced her first sailing from the Clyde, bound for New York, February 27, 1940. WebThe Queen Elizabeth is the newest addition to the Cunard Line and made its debut voyage in October 2010. Towards the end of 1940 additional seamen arrived on board the QUEEN ELIZABETH, having travelled from Halifax, N.S. In an lighter vein, it should not be forgotten that it was a G.I. [31] Position of the wreck: .mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct{display:none}.mw-parser-output .longitude,.mw-parser-output .latitude{white-space:nowrap}221943N 1140644E / 22.32861N 114.11222E / 22.32861; 114.11222. WebQueen Elizabeth docked at Southampton in 1967. Only a little fuel remained after the transatlantic crossing, but a barge moved alongside to take it off as necessary. Her carrying capacity was over 15,000 troops and over 900 crew. [5] She was launched on 27 September 1938 and named in honour of Queen Elizabeth, who was later known as the Queen Mother. Agreements for Home Trade Ships (Schedule B)These agreements covered coastal and fishing ships. A/CPO Lornie Peter Barnard. From there she sailed to Simonstown (Cape Town) where German prisoners of war boarded, heading for internment in the United States. 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. The small vessel's skipper hoisted a flag signal: "What ship is that?" The Mercantile Marine Act of 1850 required masters to keep a ships Official Log to record events on board including: Logs were deposited after each foreign voyage, or half-yearly for home trade ships. This, then, is the story of the QUEEN ELIZABETH, the world's largest liner. Cunard White Star Tourist Class, January 1949. The QUEEN ELIZABETH arrived at Singapore three weeks after leaving New York for a seven-week conversion into a troopship with accommodation for 5,000 troops. Harland & Wolff found itself in a peculiar situation. [6] She was moved to Port Everglades, Florida, and converted to a tourist attraction, which opened in February 1969. 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. [11][9], Queen Elizabeth was built on slipway four at John Brown & Company in Clydebank, Scotland, Great Britain. wartime home port, for the very last time on 12th March 1966. How much more dignified it would have been to have broken the ship up in 1968. WebFirst time the Queen Mary carried American troops (8,398 troops, 905 crew). Keel laid on December 4, 1936. The wording of the Cunard Insurance Actspecified 'the construction of two vessels in Great Britain', which precluded the Belfast yard from tendering as Belfast, although in the UK, was not in Great Britain. With flight time cut from twelve to less than seven hours, the lure was irresistible. 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. The records held are for years ending with five (1955, 1965, and so on).https://www.rmg.co.uk/collections/research-guides/research-guide-c12-merchant-navy-ship-registration-custom-house-records. The new company intended to operate the ship as a hotel and tourist attraction in Port Everglades, Florida, similar to the planned use of Queen Mary in Long Beach, California. [8] The official contract between Cunard and government financiers was signed on 6 October 1936. 83,673 Gross Tons -- 2,314 Passengers. Shuttle', her first such voyage leaving New York for the Clyde on 5th June 1942. With just enough room for a man to squeeze into his standee. In total the reconversion work cost 1 million. All this seemingly had no end, but this complacency would be destroyed completely in the 1960s. Four torpedoes were fired and the U-Boat followed their course. GGA Image ID # 1d36e82385 Queen Elizabeth (1940) Cunard Line Built by John Brown & Co., Clydebank, Glasgow, Scotland. Cunard White Star Tourist Class, January 1949. You may find a ships Official Number from the following published sources available at The National Archives: See section 3 for more information on how to find a ships number. Like a Greek tragedy the tale of woe gathered force. Sir Percy Bates stressed that, The NORMANDIE had one edge on the QUEEN MARY in being aesthetically more pleasing through her revolutionary streamlining and lack of visible deck 'clutter'. The first meeting of the two 'Queens' at sea - off Sydney Heads in 1941. 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. 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