Completed by the masters of ships engaged in the coastal or fishing trade, giving the voyages and crew for the preceding half year, and was to be filed within 21 days of the end of June or December. The ship sat like a giant beacon in the middle of Clydebank, visible for miles around. In May 1930, Cunard began to make tentative enquiries about the possibility of dry-docking facilities at Southampton for its two new superliners. The BREMEN's triumphant return to Hamburg after. WebHMS Queen Elizabeth during the Second World War 1939-1945. A/CPO Lornie Peter Barnard. An elaborate ruse suggested to any German observers that she would sail to Southampton to complete her fitting-out. At the Cunard Steamship Company's Annual General Meeting held on 28th May 1959, the Chairman Colonel Denis Bates speculated on how the world would be travelling in the future. 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. Another obvious difference between the two ships was the lack of a forward well deck on the new QUEEN ELIZABETH. For the two meals a day that were provided there were six sittings, each of forty-five minutes. 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. This also suffered from low bookings and became known as the 'Ghost Ship Voyage'. Looking astern over the cabin-class sports deck. The maiden voyage had been arranged to depart from Southampton on 16th October 1946. 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. [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. Alternatively, searchThe National Archives library catalogueto see what is available to consult at Kew. They would follow the natural progression of developments then taking place in marine engineering and in naval architecture. 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. Built at the famed John Brown Shipyard in Clydebank, Queen Elizabeth was the largest passenger ship ever constructed, a title she held from her launch until 1996 when finally eclipsed AB. The QUEEN ELIZABETH at anchor at the Tail of the Bank off Gourock. The cruiser HMAS CANBERRA had lowered a pinnace which was cruising calmly around collecting bags of mail from each. It was certainly the last time that the two 'Queens' ever stopped at sea in war time. The superheated steam needed to be cooled to normal working temperature before slowing the ship could even be considered. 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 From 1835 until 1857, crew lists and agreements were organised by port of registry and then alphabetically by ship name (see sections 8.1 and 8.2 for search advice), and then from 1857 onwards, you will need to find the ships official number to locate these records (see section 3 for more information). [6] The two liners were replaced with the new, more economical Queen Elizabeth 2. They were ferried out to the liner on the Clyde steamer QUEEN MARY II. Her funnels are 70 feet high from deck level. After V.E. 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. August 2 - 7 First time a complete division was carried on any ship. [9] For this new tropical purpose, the ship received a major refit in 1965, with a new Lido deck added to her aft section, enhanced air conditioning, and an outdoor swimming pool. accompanied by Sir Percy Bates, the Cunard chairman. WebThe Queen Elizabeth is the newest addition to the Cunard Line and made its debut voyage in October 2010. pp. She first entered service in February 1940 as a troopship in the Second World War, and it was not until October 1946 that she served in her intended role as an ocean liner. Sanders Samuel Donald . Shuttle'. As well as state-of-the-art weaponry and communications systems, HMS Queen Elizabeth boasts five gyms, a chapel and a medical centre. It read: "She is the last agency of truly comfortable and agreeable travel the world will ever know, since she will never be replaced on any comparable scale of sumptuousness.". 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. To locate crew lists for these years you will need to know the name of the ship on which an individual seaman sailed. Whilst in Singapore many of the crew frequented a pub called the 'Pig and Whistle'. During the year there were 24 fewer westbound sailings and 22 fewer eastbound sailings than in 1960. [citation needed], As a troopship, Queen Elizabeth left Singapore on 11 February, and on 23 February 1942 Queen Elizabeth secretly arrived in Esquimalt, British Columbia, Canada. The speed required for the 112-hour passage on the various tracks used across the Atlantic according to the season would be between 27.61 and 28.94 knots. WebRMS Queen Elizabeth History Pages. This information will help us make improvements to the website. The Cammell Laird tender had been 4,683,000. During her 1953 overhaul, two fires broke out on board the QUEEN ELIZABETH in dry dock. On 22nd August 1939 it was announced that the maiden voyage of the QUEEN ELIZABETH was scheduled to leave Southampton on 24th April 1940. It was just over thirty years since she had launched the ship at Clydebank. The QUEEN MARY and the QUEEN ELIZABETH met for the last time when they were both at sea. Commenced her first sailing from the Clyde, bound for New York, February 27, 1940. Promptly at 2.pm on 16th October 1946, the QUEEN ELIZABETH. Cunard White Star Tourist Class, January 1949. The QUEEN ELIZABETH in dry dock at Esquimalt, Vancouver Island, BC. A parakeet flew in through an open porthole at New York and quickly became the mascot of the ship's officers who bought him a fancy cage and named him Joey. Sometimes a log book, with details of the ships voyages (see section 7), was filed along with the agreements and crew lists. During the five years she had carried 300,000 passengers. 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. 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. The first-class restaurant on the QUEEN ELIZABETH. August 2 - 7 First time a complete division was carried on any ship. 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. There were only five dry docks in the world which could accommodate the Elizabeth. Sanders Samuel Donald . 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. For instance, the QUEEN ELIZABETH was out of service from 21st July to 30th July 1952 and this included six days in the King George V dry dock. 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. Queen Elizabeth leaving New York during her last voyage, 1968. Under the terms of the Cunard Insurance Act, Cunard was obliged to start work on the second ship before the Act expired in 1936. The only signs of White Star which remained were the buff funnels of the BRITANNIC and the GEORGIC. While a troupe of invading men from "Grand Fenwick", a fictional European micro-nation, cross the Atlantic to 'war' with the United States, they meet and pass the far larger Queen Elizabeth, and learn that the port of New York is closed due to an air raid drill. Steam turbines. Others speculated that the fires were the result of a conflict between Tung, a Chinese Nationalist, and Communist-dominated ship construction unions. Search by name of ship inBT 100for the agreements and crew lists of a selection of celebrated ships. [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. A serious fire broke out in No.4 boiler room on 13th February and was fortunately brought under control. The QUEEN ELIZABETH leaving the fitting-out berth at John Brown's. Other than silt found in some inlets, there was very little evidence of the grounding. The QUEEN ELIZABETH passed the Ambrose Channel Light Vessel off New York just before dawn on 21st October after a passage of 4 days, 16 hours and 18 minutes at an average speed of 27.99 knots. [citation needed]. Sir Percy Bates, dismayed at this prospect, wrote to the Chief of Naval Staff, Rear Admiral Burrough, for a decision on the ship's future. One detonation was heard. The King's Messenger was awaited as he would bring the order to sail. Queen Elizabeth's 'cherished wish' that she might someday sail in the liner was fulfilled in October 1954 when, by now Queen Mother, she embarked at the beginning of a tour to the United States and Canada. Wooden decks had to caulked and electric cables connected. The ELIZABETH just before she sailed from Port Everglades. The Japanese wanted her for a marine science museum in time for the 1970 Tokyo World Fair. 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. WebHMS Queen Elizabeth is the largest and most powerful vessel ever constructed for the Royal Navy. The NORMANDIE - the QUEEN MARY's arch rival on the North Atlantic. There are a small number of log books in BT 98 and BT 99. Ferry boats fuss across the river, dodging between these ships, almost like children running across a busy road.". This cumbersome organisation had involved double-accounting and separate staffing. The truth was rather different, as the QUEEN MARY had a long, ponderous roll in a heavy beam sea which was only cured by the installationof two sets of Denny-Brown stabilisers in the late 1950s. [9] During the trials, Queen Elizabeth took the wheel for a brief time, and the two young princesses recorded the two measured runs with stopwatches that they had been given for the occasion. [29] The vessel was finally declared a shipping hazard and dismantled for scrap between December 1974[30] and 1975. 1951onwards There were only five dry docks in the world which could accommodate the, 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. GGA Image ID # 1d36e82385 Queen Elizabeth (1940) Cunard Line Built by John Brown & Co., Clydebank, Glasgow, Scotland. 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. 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) A Schedule D form was headed Accounts Of Voyages And Crew For Home Trade Ship. Use the search box contained withinBT 98to search by ships Official Number and date. One sample is held by The National Archives and the other by the National Maritime Museum. It was not only the declining fortunes of Cunard's passenger business which threatened the fleet of which the QUEEN ELIZABETH was still the flagship. 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. Her secret sailing was under British Government regulations, so as to lessen the danger of being sunk by the Germans. The C.G.T. 'Standee' bunks and accommodated up to eight G.I.s. in the late 1940s, are (left to right): Elizabeth Sayers, Margaret Morton. By using this site, you accept the use of cookies on your device. Captain Ford then stopped the engines to avoid sucking silt into the underwater inlets. For the First World War (1914-1918) all surviving logs containing casualties are preserved. Seaman Lornie Peter Barnard. These essentially distinguished between ships sailing in waters around Britain (home) and those sailing further afield (foreign). In the centre, on the south side of Pier 90, is the QUEEN MARY, and across. [9] Queen Elizabeth herself performed the launching ceremony on 27 September 1938. The Official Number was allocated on registration, retained for the life of the ship, and was not reused. REINA DEL MAR PACIFIC STEAM NAVIGATION CO. While being constructed in the mid-1930s by John Brown and Company at Clydebank, Scotland, the build was Cunard's attempts to introduce economies on the QUEEN ELIZABETH in the late 1950s met with fierce opposition from passengers. Dr Maguire said that he never did find out just who was responsible for that risky mid-ocean mail collecting. A major problem to be settled concerned the insurance of the liner while she was being built, together with the future full sea risks when she was operational. Over the next three days the ship took on eighteen of her twenty-six lifeboats. 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. Before 1747 no systematic records of the crew of merchant ships were kept. Search by ships name or number inBT 165 for selected logs covering the periods 1902-1920. 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. At 3.50pm the Cumbraes were once again abeam and the QUEEN ELIZABETH anchored at the Tail of the Bank at 5.pm. A bid of $3.2 million (1.3 million at 1969 rates of exchange) was made by the Island Navigation Company of Hong Kong. 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. 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. They went ahead with plans for new quay accommodation and worked amicably with Cunard officials. Throughout the 'G.I. During her construction she was more commonly known by her shipyard number, Hull 552. Scrapping seemed to provide the obvious, almost humane, answer to dealing with the problem of the QUEEN ELIZABETH. Mildenhall Wilfred Charles. With flight time cut from twelve to less than seven hours, the lure was irresistible. There was now no hope of her entering service as the jewel of the British merchant marine. More than a year after the two 'Queens' had last met in New York, they sailed in company for the very first time in April 1941. [21], The ship ran aground on a sandbank off Southampton on 14 April 1947, and was re-floated the following day. 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. Reliable boilers would have to be chosen as there would be no opportunity for boiler cleaning in port. After 1861 only a sample of crew lists and agreements and log books are held at The National Archives. The U.704, under the command of Kapitan Horst Kessler, was wallowing in a Force 8 gale off the west coast of Ireland before returning south to its base in France. After that she sailed to the British naval base at Simonstown, to the south of Cape Town. In the event 600 tubes had to be changed and approval obtained from classification societies. Only a little fuel remained after the transatlantic crossing, but a barge moved alongside to take it off as necessary. Apparently the torpedo had exploded well away from the ship. The QUEEN ELIZABETH at full speed in the North Atlantic. That evening the crew was paid off and just 193 were retained to take the Elizabeth on her delivery voyage to Fort Lauderdale. 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 following morning, 18th April 1947, she steamed into Southampton - fifty hours late ! At around this time the Queen's microphone failed but with great presence of mind, Her Majesty quietly and almost unheard by those around her said: British Pathe The Queen launches the QUEEN ELIZABETH 1938. 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