[16] As passenger numbers declined, the liners became uneconomic to operate in the face of rising fuel and labour costs. 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. ', The QUEEN ELIZABETH slips away from Southampton for the, last time in the early morning fog of 28th November 1968. Tung personally visited his ship. It was not until 1926 that Cunard began thinking about the replacements for the express steamers. A temporary electrical fault had developed with the. The NORMANDIE had one edge on the QUEEN MARY in being aesthetically more pleasing through her revolutionary streamlining and lack of visible deck 'clutter'. [13] Cunard's plan was for the ship to be launched in September 1938, with fitting-out intended to be complete for the ship to enter service in the spring of 1940. Not until the Elizabeth had sailed on 2nd March 1940 was it considered safe to release them. WebScenes on the main podium prior the launching, the two Princesses are notable, especially Princess Elizabeth , our future Queen! [6] However, the Elizabeth's retirement in Florida was not to last. May 11 - 16 First time more than 10,000 persons had traveled on any ship (9,880 troops, 875 crew). Sanders Samuel Donald . with the man above him practically resting on top of him. From the mid 1940s until the mid 1950s both the 'Queens' were given a short summer overhaul at Southampton. The tourist-class cabins on D-Deck were always very warm despite every effort to provide adequate ventilation, and air-conditioning was urgently required. As a result only twelve boilers were needed for the QUEEN ELIZABETH, rather than the twenty-four in the Mary. The Cammell Laird tender had been 4,683,000. This is, indeed, the very heart of a shipping city, where, standing in the windows of that building, one can see the ships of all nations passing by in procession at tide-time, almost as mundanely as the trams whose terminus is at the water's edge. 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. He went on deck and saw three great ships - the two 'Queens' and the ILE DE FRANCE stationary. The QUEEN ELIZABETH sets off on her 'secret' dash to New York. By the end of the year Queen Inc. was bankrupt with debts of $12 million. Steam locomotives delivered the steel plates, but lighter items were brought in by horse-drawn lorries. The first day was Monday 26th February and just after noon, escorted by six tugs, the new ship left the fitting-out basin at Clydebank and proceeded down the River Clyde to an anchorage at the Tail of the Bank. These are undeniable facts. 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 WebThe Queen Elizabeth is the newest addition to the Cunard Line and made its debut voyage in October 2010. The QUEEN ELIZABETH had an unexpected stowaway in 1959. Cunard White Star Tourist Class, January 1949. The new fire regulations (that Cunard had not been able to afford) were incorporated, bringing the ship into line with the stringent standards required by the United States. !!! That is quite sufficient to ensure her a place in the story of Liverpool ships. Additional competition in the form of the new UNITED STATES would also be a factor from mid 1952. WebRMS Queen Mary: 80,774 GRT: 1936: Currently a Hotel ship 16 October 1946 (entered service) RMS Queen Elizabeth: 83,673 GRT: 314 m (1,031 ft) 1946 1972 (Destroyed by fire) Scrapped in 1974 (after sinking) 3 February 1962 (entered service) SS France (1962-1980) SS Norway (post-1980) 66,343 GRT(as built) 76,049 GRT (final size) Many thanks to Ted Finch for his assistance in collecting this data. 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. At 3.pm the liner commenced her northward run over the Arran measured mile and covered the course in 2 minutes 1.3 seconds which gave an average speed of 29.71 knots. At a boat drill on 27th February the assembled crew were told of Churchill's order that the ship was to leave British waters. Use this section for advice on finding crew lists and agreements from 1835 up to 1999. In May 1930, Cunard began to make tentative enquiries about the possibility of dry-docking facilities at Southampton for its two new superliners. All fields were usually completed. 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. Labour disputes at sea and ashore also menaced the liner's schedule and on such occasions she was used as a massive pawn in various disputes involving tugmen, dockers, longshoremen or the crew. At first it was proposed that work on the Elizabeth would gradually be brought to a standstill as men transferred to warship work. Sanders Samuel Donald . Our collection contains a sampling of what was originally produced and printed by the steamship lines. The submarine dived and the captain identified the ship as the QUEEN ELIZABETH. 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. Agreements for Home Trade Ships (Schedule B)These agreements covered coastal and fishing ships. 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. 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. With these improvements, Cunard intended to keep the ship in operation until at least the mid-1970s. in the Firth of Clyde, the U.K. terminal port for the G.I. 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. She was to be fitted with Denny-Brown stabilisers whilst in the King George V dry dock. The ship was now under Hong Kong ownership, and she sailed to Hong Kong on 10 February 1971. Portions of the hull that were not salvaged were left at the bottom of the bay. 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]. Image of a ships muster roll 1770-1775 (catalogue reference: BT 98/3). Eight days later the 'slow boat to China' arrived at Hong Kong. (The Singapore facility was no longer available). The Clydebank yard was awarded the contract with a tender of 4,293,000. Seaman Lornie Peter Barnard. 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. 1951onwards All twelve boilers had been reconditioned and her four engines thoroughly overhauled. With ' Queen Mary' she provided weekly luxury liner service between Southampton in the United Kingdom and New York City in the United States, via Cherbourg in France. The QUEEN ELIZABETH had now been in the water for over two years since her launch on 27th September 1938. 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. [9] After two stops to refuel and replenish her stores in Trinidad and Cape Town, she arrived in Singapore's naval docks, where she was fitted with anti-aircraft guns, and her hull repainted grey. [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. Built by John Brown & Co., Clydebank, Glasgow, Scotland. The QUEEN ELIZABETH was ready for her trials in early October and sailed for the Clyde on the sixth of the month. 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. WebThe eight ships which were passed into the ownership of the new concern were - ALPS, ANDES, BRITISH QUEEN, DAMASCUS, LEBANON, KARNAK, TENERIFFE and TAURUS. Three five-day cruises between New York and Nassau, Bahamas were planned for February and early March 1963, after which the liner would return to Atlantic service. WebThe Queen Elizabeth is the newest addition to the Cunard Line and made its debut voyage in October 2010. All these quickly spread, fanned carried by the ample supply of air coming into the ship through the open shell doors. This would take at least an hour plus many miles, and this would not have allowed her to stop within Kessler's observation. The troops would board the, The safety of the troops during these solo high-speed dashes across the Atlantic was not considered to be paramount in the minds of those at the top. The small vessel's skipper hoisted a flag signal: Because of a strike by New York tugboat men there was a possibility that the QUEEN ELIZABETH would be diverted to Halifax. If oil were adopted as the best type of fuel, Cunard would always have to bear in mind the possibility of oil shortages, and back in 1926 it had been seriously suggested that the new ships might be generally arranged so that in the case of such an emergency arising it would be possible to convert them to coal burning. On 5th April 1968 Cunard announced its decision. A fortnight later, on Monday 20th August 1945, the QUEEN ELIZABETH arrived in Southampton for the first time - four and a half years late. The name of this establishment so caught their fancy that the crew bars on all Cunard liners were subsequently named in its honour. 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. Under the command of Commodore Sir James Bisset, the ship travelled to the Isle of Arran and her trials were carried out. The Japanese wanted her for a marine science museum in time for the 1970 Tokyo World Fair. 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. The QUEEN ELIZABETH at the fitting-out berth at John Brown's shipyard. As 1939 wore on, men and materials were taken away from the liner as Admiralty work took priority, and the pace of work on board slowed down. The QUEEN ELIZABETH (centre) and the QUEEN MARY (left). -__________________________________________________________, Cunard Line QUEEN ELIZABETH of 1938, Part 1, Cunard Line QUEEN ELIZABETH of 1938, Part 2, Arrivals & DeparturesQueen Elizabeth Southampton 1950, (from an original painting by Robert Lloyd). The ships would have to run without repairs for eleven months of the year. As soon as the decision to retire the 'Elizabeth' was made public, her cruises and Western Ocean crossings became popular with those who had travelled on and had loved the ship over the kength of her career. Engines were checked and boilers tested, but only six of the twelve boilers were considered functional for the long passage. Tung, the head of the Orient Overseas Line, intended to convert the vessel into a university for the World Campus Afloat program (later reformed and renamed as Semester at Sea). These were installed two, three and five to a tier in every available space and the QUEEN ELIZABETH left San Francisco in a small convoy bound for Sydney with eight thousand troops on board which were needed to bolster Australia's depleted forces until some of her own troops could be recalled from the Middle East. For the First World War (1914-1918) all surviving logs containing casualties are preserved. The left hand side of the E-1 certificate was a certificate of character on which the master rated the seamans ability and character of conduct (VG, G Fair, Poor). sails up the Hudson (the North River) to her berth at Pier 90. The salvage tug RESCUE arrived on 16th February as the SEAWISE UNIVERSITY continued her southward drift through the Windward Passage into the Caribbean. She also has the distinction of being the largest-ever riveted ship by gross tonnage. Agreements and crew lists from the 19th century are occasionally accompanied by ships logs and this becomes increasingly common for 20th century records. There was some talk of permanently flooding the bilge and allowing the Queen Elizabeth to rest on the bed of the Intracoastal Waterway in Ft. Lauderdale harbour (Port Everglades) and remain open, but the ship was forced to close in August 1970, after losing money and being declared a fire hazard. Alternatively, searchThe National Archives library catalogueto see what is available to consult at Kew. This left only Singapore and the QUEEN ELIZABETH would have to make two stops to take on fuel and water on her voyage from New York. The QUEEN MARY and the QUEEN ELIZABETH met for the last time when they were both at sea. THE CUNARD - WHITE STAR LINER 'QUEEN ELIZABETH'. Those crew members who, for family or other reasons, declined to sign the new articles were taken off the QUEEN ELIZABETH, sworn to secrecy and subsequently spent many hours, virtually interned, on board the Southampton tender ROMSEY in a nearby loch. 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. A/CPO Lornie Peter Barnard. Because of a strike by New York tugboat men there was a possibility that the QUEEN ELIZABETH would be diverted to Halifax. Contact them directly to find out more. A year later, in January 1973, the old QUEEN ELIZABETH still lay in the harbour at Hong Kong, a burnt out hulk lying on her starboard side. 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. October 2 It was decided to steam her all the way and a Chinese crew was flownto Florida, along with workers from Mr Tung's own shipyard. On 27th May the Clydebank men were told they had the order. Under the terms of the Cunard Insurance Act, Cunard was obliged to start work on the second ship before the Act expired in 1936. Any problems that were encountered were resolved by the foremen concerned by sending in extra men to assist temporarily with the work that had fallen behind and bring the construction work back to its timetable. From 1845 onwards the following lists were being used: Schedules C, D and A, B, G. WebThe eight ships which were passed into the ownership of the new concern were - ALPS, ANDES, BRITISH QUEEN, DAMASCUS, LEBANON, KARNAK, TENERIFFE and TAURUS. The NORMANDIE - the QUEEN MARY's arch rival on the North Atlantic. 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. Great steps forward were being made in both these fields. The Directors decided that work must stop on No.534 - the QUEEN MARY - at noon on Friday 11th December 1931. The King George V Dock at Southampton, specially built for the 'Queens' was unusable because it was within range of Nazi bombers; the use of the American dock at Bayonne, New Jersey, was denied because of U.S. neutrality; the Esquimault dock on the west coast of Canada was just too far away, and the French dock at St Nazaire (built for the NORMANDIE) was out of the question. 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. They are (left to right). While being constructed in the mid-1930s by John Brown and Company at Clydebank, Scotland, the build was Information on the holdings of The National Archives are decribed in The National Archives' Merchant Seamen: Agreements and Crew Lists after 1861. The extent of original materials at the GG Archives can be very beneficial when researching your family's migration from Europe. Undoubtedly the incomplete QUEEN ELIZABETH was the greatest dilemma facing John Brown's on the outbreak of war. On 8th November the QUEEN ELIZABETH sailed on a 'Farewell Cruise' to Las Palmas and Gibraltar, and was back at Southampton on 15th November. Cunard retired Queen Mary in 1967 and Queen Elizabeth completed her final Atlantic crossing to New York on 5 November 1968. 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. For just fourteen days between 7th and 21st March 1940, the world's three, largest liners were together at New York. All that required to be done was drydocking in Japan. Apparently the torpedo had exploded well away from the ship. For the purpose of this list, they have been included as Cunard ships. The QUEEN ELIZABETH's final season on the Atlantic was uneventful other than for the enthusiasm expressed by her regular passengers who wanted to sail in her just one last time. When Cunard requested that the Americans send over an inspector to approve the improvement work as it progressed, the authorities declined. the title of each video, exactly as I have shown it above. You are unlikely to find records by searching for the names of ships or seamen, as the records have not been indexed in that way. 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 The UNITED STATES took the 'Blue Riband' on her maiden voyage. Any search results will be divided into alphabetical ranges according to the initial letter of the ships name. 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. With White Star now under Cunard's wing, Harland & Wolff at Belfast were also invited to tender, a position not previously open to them. A model of the ocean liner Queen Elizabeth has sat serenely for the last 15 years, gliding along on its pedestal in a PEM gallery. Throughout the 'G.I. It remained in the NORMANDIE until the outbreak of war, after which it was returned to the Hanley jewellers who made it. 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. two express steamers became a reality in August, 1947. The result brightened up the ship considerably after the years of drabness. Keel laid on December 4, 1936. The QUEEN ELIZABETH's bow, unlike that of the Mary, was heavily raked. A serious fire broke out in No.4 boiler room on 13th February and was fortunately brought under control. BT 387 is arranged by ranges of ships names therefore you will need to browse the series. The view from the top of the shipyard crane of the. This would have been the OCEANIC, whose keel was laid at Harland & Wolff's yard in 1928. Cunard White Star Tourist Class, January 1949. 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. The trend of development in the design of Atlantic liners since the coming of steam had been towards larger and faster ships; the larger ships being more comfortable as they were less affected by the elements, whilst the increased speed shortened the trip. Their high speeds allowed them to outrun hazards, principally German U-boats, usually allowing them to travel outside a convoy. 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 Company had replaced a number of its smaller ships, but there were no large replacements for the express service at the planning stage. L.Sea. This was designed so that the Government would assume responsibility of the risk of the ship's insurance value over and above the amount which the market could absorb. From the passengers' point of view it had the disadvantage of being 100 miles further away from Paris than Le Havre. In July 1962 Sir John Brocklebank, the chairman of the Cunard Steamship Company, said that the QUEEN ELIZABETH still had many years to go and mechanically could be kept competitive for the foreseeable future. The RESCUE could not handle the ship on her own and so a second tug was summoned. Her brother, the Hon. Following the First World War, Germany was building up her passenger fleet from 'scratch' in an era of new developments. The first-class restaurant on the QUEEN ELIZABETH. 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. King George VI had remained in London at the request of the Prime Minister. 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. 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