Winter cruises from New York to the West Indies were poorly patronised and one was cancelled and replaced with an unscheduled Atlantic crossing. Sir John went on to say that he believed 1962 would show an improvement over 1961, but it was impossible to say how much at that stage. Cunard's appropriated pilot, Captain Bowyer, was not available as he was 'fogbound' on another vessel. For the purpose of this list, they have been included as Cunard ships. 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. The QUEEN MARY's arch rival on the North Atlantic - the French Line's superb NORMANDIE - was studied in detail. 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. Running mate: Queen Mary. During the year there were 24 fewer westbound sailings and 22 fewer eastbound sailings than in 1960. The SEAWISE UNIVERSITY was comparatively underpowered and manned by an inexperienced crew. Passengers: 850 first, 720 cabin, 744 tourist. Shuttle'. Search by ships name or number inBT 165 for selected logs covering the periods 1902-1920. 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. 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. 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. RMS Carpathia - History, Accommodations, & Ephemera Collection. The King's Messenger was awaited as he would bring the order to sail. Before the ship had even left her berth, one of the six operational boilers developed leaks in its tubes and was declared inoperable. The remainder, lying on the harbour bed, was blown up as the wreck was a hazard to navigation. Listing Includes Date Voyage Began, Steamship Line, Vessel, Passenger Class and Route. 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. For $7.75 the QUEEN ELIZABETH was sold to a group of Philadelphia businessmen. ", Neville Chamberlain, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, was convinced that faced with the growing competition from foreign liner companies there was not room for two big British companies acting in opposition to each other on the North Atlantic trade. After a call at Rio de Janeiro, the Elizabeth finally arrived inNew York to begin what became known as the 'G.I. REINA DEL PACIFICO PACIFIC STEAM NAVIGATION. Digitized Passenger ListsOceanic to Ryndam. in the late 1940s, are (left to right): Elizabeth Sayers, Margaret Morton. 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. The Company's liners carried 207,563 passengers or 23.95% of the combined total of passengers carried by all transatlantic shipping lines in 1960. 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. 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. 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. Many thanks to Ted Finch for his assistance in collecting this data. Maritime History Archive holds approximately 70% of the crew lists and agreements for 1951-1976, but the records have not yet been indexed so contact them directly for search advice. 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. Check the opening hours and contact details for local archives usingfind an archive. While being constructed in the mid-1930s by John Brown and Company at Clydebank, Scotland, the build was 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. The Company injected $1 million into a new company called 'The Elizabeth (Cunard) Corporation' and held an 85% share. WebThe National Records of Scotland holds agreements and crew lists under the reference BT 3, covering 1867-1913, for Scottish ships only. 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. There are a small number of log books in BT 98 and BT 99. The maiden voyage had been arranged to depart from Southampton on 16th October 1946. 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. They would follow the natural progression of developments then taking place in marine engineering and in naval architecture. This would mean an expensive 'light' voyage to New York and, if the inspection failed, an equally expensive 'light' return trip back to the U.K. [19] After 1942, the two Queens were relocated to the North Atlantic for the transportation of American troops to Europe. Her carrying capacity was over 15,000 troops and over 900 crew. Queen Elizabeth leaving New York during her last voyage, 1968. The experiment lasted three voyages before the bandits were given a dishonourable discharge. The Company had replaced a number of its smaller ships, but there were no large replacements for the express service at the planning stage. For example, for a ship with the number 25820, search using 258* (include the asterisk) as your keyword. For the first time in several years the QUEEN ELIZABETH began to show a profit. WebRMS Queen Elizabeth History Pages. Two masts and two funnels. The NORMANDIE had one edge on the QUEEN MARY in being aesthetically more pleasing through her revolutionary streamlining and lack of visible deck 'clutter'. August 2 - 7 First time a complete division was carried on any ship. In 1928 the Germans launched the BREMEN and the EUROPA. Rear Admiral Carruthers Joseph William. Her propellers were removed and cleaned and the underwater hull cleaned and painted. Since the Registry General of Shipping and seamen regulations covered only British seamen, details of engagement, such as length of engagement, could be different, allowing a lascar seaman to be contracted for a period longer than one voyage and sometimes for several years. Note: Largest ship built to date. [9] Queen Elizabeth herself performed the launching ceremony on 27 September 1938. When the above lines were written in the mid 1920s, the Cunard Line was operating its Southampton - New York express service with the MAURETANIA (1907), the AQUITANIA (1914) and the BERENGARIA (1913). [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. Tonnage: 83,673. Promptly at 2.pm the liner pulled away from the quayside. Other than for Southampton's Albion Band, the quayside was almost bereft of well-wishers. The submarine dived and the captain identified the ship as the QUEEN ELIZABETH. 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. The ship was now under Hong Kong ownership, and she sailed to Hong Kong on 10 February 1971. The Elizabeth sailed at 8.pm. Denials of this speculation by British shipping representatives were not accepted. Archive British Pathe film footage of the launch can be viewed by logging on to: < British Pathe The Queen launches the QUEEN ELIZABETH 1938 >, The QUEEN ELIZABETH enters the waters of the River Clyde, The crowds at John Brown's shipyard at the launch, The QUEEN ELIZABETH is towed round to the fitting-out basin at, John Brown's shipyard, following her successful launch. to embark 5,000 troops on a northbound convoy to Suez. The QUEEN ELIZABETH almost ready for launching, The QUEEN ELIZABETH towers over the tenements of Clydebank. 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. By using this site, you accept the use of cookies on your device. We'd like to use additional cookies to remember your settings and understand how you use our services. Top to bottom: the MAURETANIA, the NORMANDIE, the QUEEN MARY. The QUEEN ELIZABETH was reported as being in excellent shape with her engines in tip-top condition. Gourock farewell'. There was a great rumpus and the yacht owner was traced. The QUEEN ELIZABETH was not successful as a cruise ship. 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 are undeniable facts. An unplanned lengthy mid-voyage stopover allowed the new owners to fly spare parts out to the ship and carry out repairs before resuming the course to Hong Kong Harbour, where she arrived in July 1971. The new liner had a weight on the slipway of 39,400 tons. The NORMANDIE - the QUEEN MARY's arch rival on the North Atlantic. 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 American liner made 44 Atlantic crossings and carried 70,104 passengers in 1955. In November 1948 a series of strikes dragged on for sixteen days, and on 2nd December the QUEEN ELIZABETH had sailed on the same tide as the QUEEN MARY and the AQUITANIA, a unique event in the history of all three vessels. Dimensions, 987' x 118' At the end of her time at Gourock one thousand Clydebankers ('Bankies') sailed south with the ship to alleviate the acute shortage of local skilled labour at Southampton. [18] Initially she carried Australian troops to theatres of operation in Asia and Africa. 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. 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. Not only that, but the company headquarters was transferred from Liverpool to Southampton. Try search terms such as ship register or registrar general shipping and seamen. They blamed it all on Joey and reports finally got back to the Commodore who ruled that Joey must go ! After a ghost-like voyage across the Atlantic the QUEEN ELIZABETH arrived off the Florida coast on Saturday 7th December 1968. !!! Each piece in this series covers a number of ships and therefore appears in our catalogue as a range of numbers. During the first weekend of the war her newly erected forward funnel, resplendent in Cunard red and black, was hastily overpainted in grey. The main record series for muster books isBT 98. Heavy castings were erected by using derrick poles or sheer legs. WebThe National Records of Scotland holds agreements and crew lists under the reference BT 3, covering 1867-1913, for Scottish ships only. The salvage tug RESCUE arrived on 16th February as the SEAWISE UNIVERSITY continued her southward drift through the Windward Passage into the Caribbean. Any search results will be divided into alphabetical ranges according to the initial letter of the ships name. The QUEEN ELIZABETH was ready for her trials in early October and sailed for the Clyde on the sixth of the month. To administer this fund, masters or owners of merchant ships had to keep a muster book, also known as a muster roll, which was filed at the port of arrival with the Seamens Fund Receivers. Mildenhall Wilfred Charles. Neville Chamberlain, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, was convinced that faced with the growing competition from foreign liner companies there was not room for two big British companies acting in opposition to each other on the North Atlantic trade. 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 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. After Esquimalt the QUEEN ELIZABETH sailed for San Francisco, and, on arrival, briefly ran aground near the Golden Gate Bridge. The Company's liners carried 207,563 passengers or 23.95% of the combined total of passengers carried by all transatlantic shipping lines in 1960. The ELIZABETH (the prefix 'Queen' was dropped at Cunard's request) was opened to the public on 14th February 1969. With the aid of two local tugs the liner finally put down two anchors some six miles off Oranjestad, Aruba. On the return southbound voyages the ships carried Allied wounded, internees or enemy prisoners-of-war, stopping off at Ceylon. WebAll surviving agreements and crew lists with their logbooks are held by The National Archives, Ruskin Avenue, Kew, Richmond, Surrey TW9 4DU. On board was the ship's namesake, Queen Elizabeth, and her two daughters, Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret. end of her 'Farewell Cruise' on 15th November 1968. 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. A/CPO Lornie Peter Barnard. 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. Ships did not have an official number before 1855. WebThe Queen Elizabeth is the newest addition to the Cunard Line and made its debut voyage in October 2010. [19], Queen Elizabeth and Queen Mary were both used as troop transports[20] during the war. The ELIZABETH just before she sailed from Port Everglades. The 'Cassandra' column in the 'Daily Mirror' on 29th November 1961 was uncharacteristically enthusiastic about the QUEEN ELIZABETH. It was out of the question for 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 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. research. CPO. During two years of near neglect, deterioration had rapidly set in, especially in the fragile boiler tubes. 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. The QUEEN ELIZABETH left Southampton on 30th March 1946 and arrived and anchored off Greenock the following day. Cunard had warned the new buyers against carrying passengers and would have nothing to do with the bookings, but nevertheless carried the blame in the eyes of the disgruntled passengers. In September 1969 a hurricane warning caused the then almost deserted ship to be partially scuttled to prevent her tearing away from her berth. By the beginning of March 1940, Queen Elizabeth was ready for her secret voyage. Two thousand men were ferried out daily to work on the SEAWISE UNIVERSITY as she lay at anchor off Hong Kong. A southbound run produced a speed of 29.75 knots. [26] The vessel was sold at auction in 1970 to Hong Kong tycoon Tung Chao Yung.[9]. He wrote in his private diary: "My own airm has always been to use '534' as a lever for bringing about a merger between the Cunard and White Star Lines, thus establishing one strong British company in the North Atlantic trade.". The Verandah Grill on the QUEEN ELIZABETH -, exclusively for the use of first-class passengers. Their high speeds allowed them to outrun hazards, principally German U-boats, usually allowing them to travel outside a convoy. A barrier was then constructed around the hull to shut her off from the river and to prevent the Clyde-borne silt building up around and under the hull. Gregg William. 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. (the French Line) brought out the ILE DE FRANCE in that year, and it was known that it was planning to build a superliner (which would be the NORMANDIE). Suddenly there was a crash of breaking timbers and No.552, on her own volition, started on her un-named journey towards the Clyde. On the bridge there was the faint sensation of a slight, lurching jolt which some on board never even felt. In addition, the following types of lists were introduced used between 1835 until 1856: Agreements for Foreign Going or Foreign Trade ships (Schedule A) Although the QUEEN ELIZABETH could carry 2,200 passengers, the number would be limited to about 1,200 whilst cruising. They went ahead with plans for new quay accommodation and worked amicably with Cunard officials. Both fires were considered suspicious and detectives questioned 2,000 Thorneycroft workmen and some 400 crew. Shuttle, there were six sittings for each of two meals. 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. CPO. The C.G.T. Flt.Lt. "Public memory is notoriously short," said Dr Rebbeck, "It has apparently been forgotten that in 1927 we laid the keel of a 1,000 foot passenger liner for the White Star Line. Alternatively, searchThe National Archives library catalogueto see what is available to consult at Kew. RMS Queen Elizabeth Tourist Class Restaurant. An alternative was serving in the Merchant Navy, and the prospect of earning 2 a week in the forces, or being well paid in the merchant service proved to be a one-sided choice for many youngsters. She would carry 1,800 students plus 800 cruise passengers on world-wide voyages. !!! The vessel was sold to Queen Ltd of Port Everglades on 19 July 1969. She was back in New York on 19th August to begin her regular G.I. 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 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. On 26th October 1958 the first American commercial jet took off for Paris and a whole new era was born. Tung had acquired the vessel for $3.5million, and had insured it for $8million, led some to speculate that the inferno was part of a fraud to collect on the insurance claim. Log books were deposited after each foreign voyage, or half-yearly for home trade ships. 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. Sir Percy Bates said that he liked to think that the Queens had, by their troop carrying capacities, shortened the war by a whole year. THE CUNARD WHITE STAR LINER QUEEN ELIZABETH. We hold just 10% of the surviving records for this period. There were only five dry docks in the world which could accommodate the Elizabeth. Speed varied between 7 and 11 knots, with the higher speed using 300 tons of oil per day. The Maritime History Archive search their Crew List Index by ships official number. This will findBT 98/6795which covers ships numbers 25801-25834 for the year 1860. Two fins were fitted on each side of the hull. 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 following morning a small coastal collier was seen in the Irish Sea wallowing along at 6 knots. 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