Search by ships name or number inBT 165 for selected logs covering the periods 1902-1920. Be that as it may, John Thorneycroft's staff at Southampton were set a formidable task with the QUEEN ELIZABETH's overhaul in January 1953. The QUEEN ELIZABETH alongside the quay at Cherbourg. The liner is equipped with two sets of stabilizers. With a design that improved upon that of Queen Mary, Queen Elizabeth was a slightly larger ship, the largest passenger liner ever built at that time and for 56 years thereafter. The route between America and Europe had characteristics very different from others, said Colonel Bates. Although the 'Queens' could easily manage 27 or 28 knots, they were reduced to the convoy's common speed of around 20 knots. When considering the comfort of those on board, Cunard had decided against the installation of stabilisers. 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. In May 1962 the Cunard Line announced that, for the first time ever, the QUEEN ELIZABETH would be going cruising. (The Singapore facility was no longer available). When he asked for questions, one boy shot up his arm and asked: "How big were the frying pans?" Following the end of the Second World War, Queen Elizabeth was refitted and furnished as an ocean liner,[9] while her running mate Queen Mary remained in her wartime role and grey appearance except for her funnels, which were repainted in the company's colours. 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. 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 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. 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. 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. The QUEEN ELIZABETH entering the harbour at. Five days, nine hours and 3,127 nautical miles after leaving the Tail of the Bank, the QUEEN ELIZABETH passed the Ambrose Channel Light Vessel off New York and picked up her pilot. Shuttle, there were six sittings for each of two meals. The NORMANDIE - the QUEEN MARY's arch rival on the North Atlantic. The QUEEN ELIZABETH docked at Southampton at 11.am on 10th October. As well as state-of-the-art weaponry and communications systems, HMS Queen Elizabeth boasts five gyms, a chapel and a medical centre. Crew lists and agreements were either for foreign voyages or foreign trade or home voyages or home trade. Search for crew lists and agreements from 1951 to 1994 at: The National Archives search our 10% sample by ships number inBT 99. The first, on 28th January in cabin main-deck 93, was extinguished by Southampton Fire Brigade and the second fire, just twenty-four hours later, was discovered in a C-deck cabin. By 1960 the jets had 70% of the transatlantic business. With White Star now under Cunard's wing, Harland & Wolff at Belfast were also invited to tender, a position not previously open to them. On 26th July 1933, King George V and Queen Mary sailed into the new dock in the royal yacht VICTORIA AND ALBERT to perform the opening ceremony. It is comparatively short - a long weekend by the express steamers or six and a half hours by air. Tung's great ship was reconditioned and converted into the ship of his dreams. [36], Ian Fleming set the climax to his 1956 James Bond novel Diamonds Are Forever on Queen Elizabeth. 'The Times' in its special Cunard - White Star Supplement of 27th September 1938 (the date of the Elizabeth's launch) said that: 'no practicable installation of this type [gyro stabilisers] could possibly be of the slightest use in vessels the size of the QUEEN MARY and QUEEN ELIZABETH to date the safest and easiest crossings are secured by sheer size, coupled with good form design, bilge keels of practicable dimensions and careful experienced seamanship. Under the command of Commodore Sir James Bisset, the ship travelled to the Isle of Arran and her trials were carried out. Following the 1854 Merchant Shipping Act, both the master and seaman had to sign a Certificate of Discharge and Character (E-1) on termination of a voyage. 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. 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. The QUEEN ELIZABETH approaching her wartime anchorage at the Tail of the Bank. 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. The superheated steam needed to be cooled to normal working temperature before slowing the ship could even be considered. The QUEEN MARY's arch rival on the North Atlantic - the French Line's superb NORMANDIE - was studied in detail. Their high speeds allowed them to outrun hazards, principally German U-boats, usually allowing them to travel without a convoy. The 1966 strike cost Cunard an estimated 3.75 million in lost revenue and brought the total operating loss for the year to over 6 million. [10] She was to be eleven feet longer and 4,000 tons greater displacement than her older sibling, Queen Mary. [19] After 1942, the two Queens were relocated to the North Atlantic for the transportation of American troops to Europe. Promenade deck 724 feet long. in the late 1940s, are (left to right): Elizabeth Sayers, Margaret Morton. At the start of the Second World War, it was decided that Queen Elizabeth was so vital to the war effort that she must not have her movements tracked by German spies operating in the Clydebank area. 534 was laid on 27th December 1930. All that required to be done was drydocking in Japan. Agreements and crew lists from the 19th century are occasionally accompanied by ships logs and this becomes increasingly common for 20th century records. 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. Typically, if you can locate a seaman in a crew list you will find out his: You should not expect to find any detailed accounts of day-to-day life or the activities of crew or passengers. Across the Channel at Cherbourg the French authorities had proved much more amenable. Cunard's appropriated pilot, Captain Bowyer, was not available as he was 'fogbound' on another vessel. Sanders Samuel Donald . Some of the publications below may be available to buy fromThe National Archives bookshop. Breakfast was from 6.30am until 11.am; and dinner from 3.pm to 7.30pm. leaves Southampton on her first ever commercial voyage. A/CPO Lornie Peter Barnard. By converting water tanks, an additional 1,000 tons of fuel, or about one day's comsumption, could be carried. The loyalty that she was given by her crew, the lifeblood of any ship, was reflected in the service given to her passengers who patronised the ship in vast numbers time and time again. On 1st January 1950 the Cunard Steamship Company took over its wholly-owned subsidiary, Cunard - White Star. 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. Just two funnels were needed on the new ship instead of the three on the Mary and these were self-supporting, having their stays on the inside of the stack. The stability of the QUEEN MARY has proved ample at all times to make the ship as safe and comfortable as it is possible for any vessel to be when passing through an Atlantic storm.' The distance to be covered in a year would be about 145,000 nautical miles. Later that day, at the time when she was due to arrive at Southampton, the city was bombed by the Luftwaffe. Steam was raised on all boilers on 1st March. Therefore Cunard approached the Government and asked them if they would bear the additional burden. WebHMS Queen Elizabeth is the largest and most powerful vessel ever constructed for the Royal Navy. The fins were retractable into the hull to save fuel in smooth seas and for docking. 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. On 11th July Bates replied asking Piggot to 'think of another good number'. Other than for Southampton's Albion Band, the quayside was almost bereft of well-wishers. 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. Kessler always maintained that the ship was the QUEEN ELIZABETH. The QUEEN ELIZABETH almost ready for launching, The QUEEN ELIZABETH towers over the tenements of Clydebank. Cunard White Star Tourist Class, January 1949. On her next voyage, the week before the maiden voyage of the UNITED STATES, the QUEEN ELIZABETH averaged 31.09 knots for one day's run. 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. 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). 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. Chesney Henry. Shuttle'. These lists do not include passengers who joined ships en route. 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 new centrally-placed companionway is in place in this photo and there's a repaint where the ladders once were. Her carrying capacity was over 15,000 troops and over 900 crew. v3.0, date and place of joining and leaving the ship, reason for leaving the ship, whether discharged, drowned, or otherwise, the amount of money invested in the fund by each crew member (this was calculated on a pro rata basis at 6d per month), how disposed of (the nature of the seamans departure from the ship, whether discharged, drowned or otherwise). This is not given in the Merchant seaman registers 1835-1857 until 1854. 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. 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. 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. At a boat drill on 27th February the assembled crew were told of Churchill's order that the ship was to leave British waters. There was now no hope of her entering service as the jewel of the British merchant marine. 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. She was nonetheless a popular ship. WebRMS Queen Elizabeth Passenger Lists 1947-1954 RMS Queen Elizabeth, World's Largest Liner. After that she sailed to the British naval base at Simonstown, to the south of Cape Town. The salvage tug RESCUE arrived on 16th February as the SEAWISE UNIVERSITY continued her southward drift through the Windward Passage into the Caribbean. Queen Elizabeth and Queen Mary were used as troop transports during the Second World War. There was now no hope of her entering service as the jewel of the British merchant marine. Many local archives hold the records relating to their local ports. Because of a strike by New York tugboat men there was a possibility that the QUEEN ELIZABETH would be diverted to Halifax. While being constructed in the mid-1930s by John Brown and Company at Clydebank, Scotland, the build was Barry Claud Barrington. 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. ", The promenade deck main square on the QUEEN ELIZABETH. [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 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). 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. The Official Number was allocated on registration, retained for the life of the ship, and was not reused. She did, however, remain all the while under Cunard management with British officers and crew. each day in the QUEEN ELIZABETH's first-class restaurant. WebScenes on the main podium prior the launching, the two Princesses are notable, especially Princess Elizabeth , our future Queen! After leaving Singapore the QUEEN ELIZABETH headed for Sydney. Dredging had not been completed at Port Everglades so Commodore Marr was instructed to cruise the Elizabeth slowly down the coast to 'show the flag'. It can be appreciated that the jibe that Great Britain charged $100 a head to take soldiers to the battlefields of Europe was calculated to be extremely hurtful to Anglo-American friendship. The continuing popularity of the 'Queens' was shown by the fact that they carried 110,800 passengers between them in 1960. [12] The interiors were designed by a team of artists headed by the architect George Grey Wornum. 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. 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 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. 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. By six o'clock the next morning, thirteen tugs had arrived from Southampton, Portsmouth Dockyard and Poole. Early in the afternoon of 9th November a large, two-funnelled steamer was sighted, some six to seven miles away. "The voyage, while short, will be extremely difficult for all". 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. 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. I have recently uploaded three videos on to 'YouTube' about, Cunard Line QUEEN ELIZABETH of 1938, Part 1 [30 minutes], Cunard Line QUEEN ELIZABETH of 1938, Part 2 [30 minutes], Arrivals & DeparturesQueen Elizabeth Southampton 1950 [20 minutes], To view these, log on to 'You Tube', and enter into the search box. The QUEEN ELIZABETH off the Battery area of Manhattan as she. [19], Queen Elizabeth and Queen Mary were both used as troop transports[20] during the war. The QUEEN ELIZABETH was ready for her trials in early October and sailed for the Clyde on the sixth of the month. Half-yearly crew lists for ships on home voyages (Schedule D) 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. But first the ship had to be moved from Port Everglades to Hong Kong. GGA Image ID # 1d36e82385. 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. I have agreed in principle." Shuttle. 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. For $7.75 the QUEEN ELIZABETH was sold to a group of Philadelphia businessmen. In 1959, the ship made an appearance in the British satirical comedy film The Mouse That Roared, starring Peter Sellers and Jean Seberg. CPO. 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. This website uses cookies to improve functionality. Sometimes, however, other details may be found. The now retired Commodore Marr and a former chief engineer of the ship were hired by Tung as advisors for the journey to Hong Kong. [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. 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. There are usually several boxes of records for each port of registry, each box containing an alphabetical range of ships names. The Cammell Laird tender had been 4,683,000. Many thanks to Ted Finch for his assistance in collecting this data. The work, Cunard estimated, would cost 750,000. He presented the ship with a plaque from the Department of Defense to commemorate the liner's remarkable war service. The dock would have to be 124 feet wide at its entrance and have a minimum depth of 40 feet. 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. Alternatively, browseBT 98/1-139(1747 to 1853) to view all the ports and years for which there are records in this period. 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. Captain Townley discovered that he was to take the ship directly to New York in the then neutral United States without stopping, or even slowing to drop off the Southampton harbour pilot who had embarked on at Clydebank, and to maintain strict radio silence. Costing almost twice as much as the Mary, the French liner was also more lavish in her first-class apartments. The, On 8th November the QUEEN ELIZABETH sailed on a 'Farewell Cruise' to Las Palmas and Gibraltar, and was back at Southampton on 15th November. Gregg William. The QUEEN MARY's post-war refit was completed in the summer of 1947 and on 1st August she joined her larger sister in the long-delayed two-ship Atlantic express ferry service for which they had both been built. Like a Greek tragedy the tale of woe gathered force. It was certainly the last time that the two 'Queens' ever stopped at sea in war time. This would take at least an hour plus many miles, and this would not have allowed her to stop within Kessler's observation. On 25th November 1935 Sir Percy Bates wrote to Swan Hunter; Vickers Armstrong; John Brown and Cammell Laird advising them that, although his Board had not reached any final decision, they might decide to build a vessel to run alongside the QUEEN MARY. This also suffered from low bookings and became known as the. REINA DEL PACIFICO PACIFIC STEAM NAVIGATION. They are (left to right). 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