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. During the year there were 24 fewer westbound sailings and 22 fewer eastbound sailings than in 1960. 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. 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. Information on the holdings of The National Archives are decribed in The National Archives' Merchant Seamen: Agreements and Crew Lists after 1861. Bdmn. 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. 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. This will findBT 98/6795which covers ships numbers 25801-25834 for the year 1860. Sir Percy Bates told Commodore Bisset: The following day, 8th October, four hundred guests of the Cunard Company boarded the QUEEN ELIZABETH for the return passage to Southampton. WebQueen Elizabeth docked at Southampton in 1967. Seaman Lornie Peter Barnard. Built by John Brown & Co., Clydebank, Glasgow, Scotland. After V.E. 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. While being constructed in the mid-1930s by John Brown and Company at Clydebank, Scotland, the build was known as Hull 552. 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. By coincidence she had grounded in almost the same geographical spot as the AQUITANIA, ten years previously almost to the day. Use this section for advice on finding crew lists and agreements from 1835 up to 1999. The QUEEN MARY was berthed on the south side of Pier 90, and on the north side of Pier 88 lay the French Line's NORMANDIE. [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 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. The anchors were examined and each link of her anchor chains painted. The American liner made 44 Atlantic crossings and carried 70,104 passengers in 1955. She urgently needed to be drydocked to have the remains of her launch gear removed from her bottom plates which would then have to be cleaned and painted. The certificate would then be given back to the seaman which is why they can be found in the personal collections of an individual or their family. Launched, September 27, 1938. Together with Queen Mary and in competition with the American liners SSUnited States and SSAmerica, Queen Elizabeth dominated the transatlantic passenger trade until their fortunes began to decline with the advent of the faster and more economical jet airliner in the late 1950s. On a particularly rough crossing in April 1955, during which there were gusts of wind to 70mph and a heavy swell of up to 50 feet, nearly 100 passengers and members of the QUEEN ELIZABETH's crew were hurt. Rodaway Thomas. The work, Cunard estimated, would cost 750,000. One detonation was heard. 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. Note: Largest ship built to date. October 2 The planned several-week trip turned into months as the crew battled with boiler issues and a fire. The world's three largest liners were together for the first and, as events were to prove, the last time. CPO. He said that it had become a source of irritation to him and his colleagues on the board. He arrived at seven in the morning on Saturday 2nd March 1940 with sealed orders which were only to be opened when the QUEEN ELIZABETH was out at sea. Six years of war service had never permitted the formal sea trials to take place, so they were now finally undertaken. 160,000 s.h.p. The year 1960 proved to be another good one for Cunard. Post War Service: Reconditioned for passenger service. Speed varied between 7 and 11 knots, with the higher speed using 300 tons of oil per day. (The QUEEN MARY had been ship number 534). Two stops would be required for refuelling and watering. 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. [36], Ian Fleming set the climax to his 1956 James Bond novel Diamonds Are Forever on Queen Elizabeth. He presented the ship with a plaque from the Department of Defense to commemorate the liner's remarkable war service. The QUEEN MARY had left Southampton on 30th August 1939 on a liner voyage to New York with 2,328 passengers and remained there after her safe arrival, lying alongside Cunard's Pier 90. We hold just 10% of the surviving records for this period. brides to the United States while Queen Elizabeth was overhauled at the Firth of Clyde Drydock, in Greenock, by the John Brown Shipyard. There are usually several boxes of records for each port of registry, each box containing an alphabetical range of ships names. INS forms used to record information about passengers, crew members, and aliens: Form 680 or I-480, List or Manifest of Aliens Employed on the Vessel as Members of the Crew (used in 1945) Form I-481, List or Manifest of all Persons Employed on a Great Lakes Vessel (used in 1945) Tung and contained much well looked after second hand tonnage within its fleet. RMS Queen Elizabeth, World's Largest Liner. 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. At first it was proposed that work on the Elizabeth would gradually be brought to a standstill as men transferred to warship work. This, it is stated, is the largest number carried in any transatlantic ship during the year and gives an average of 1,593 passengers in each sailing. This awe-inspiring warship is capable of carrying up to 40 aircraft. Not only that, but the company headquarters was transferred from Liverpool to Southampton. [26] The vessel was sold at auction in 1970 to Hong Kong tycoon Tung Chao Yung.[9]. Two months later the purchasers realised that the river was not deep enough. It was proposed that the Cunard Steamship Company and the Oceanic Steamship Company (the White Star Line) would both sell their North Atlantic fleets and assets, including '534', to a new company to be called Cunard - White Star Limited. The document was signed by the master of the ship and the shipping master of the port, and the seaman would sign their name on the back. On her maiden voyage the BREMEN crossed from Cherbourg to the Ambrose Channel Light Vessel off New York at an average speed of 27.91 knots, smashing completely the MAURETANIA's proud record of twenty years standing. To ensure that good progress was maintained during construction, the General and Shipyard Managers met all the departmental head foremen at the gangway every Friday. Commodore Geoffrey Marr compared the departure to the farewell given to the Elizabeth at New York. Just after midnight on 25th September 1967 the two, 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. Other than for Southampton's Albion Band, the quayside was almost bereft of well-wishers. The QUEEN ELIZABETH entering the harbour at. Rear Admiral Carruthers Joseph William. WebRMS Queen Elizabeth Passenger Lists 1947-1954 RMS Queen Elizabeth, World's Largest Liner. 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. With the aid of two local tugs the liner finally put down two anchors some six miles off Oranjestad, Aruba. 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. Cunard faced formidable competiion in the shape of the brand new liner FRANCE and the UNITED STATES operating a weekly integrated transatlantic service. Gourock farewell'. She also has the distinction of being the largest-ever riveted ship by gross tonnage. The QUEEN ELIZABETH sets off on her 'secret' dash to New York. The liner's new owners were by now in financial difficulty and Cunard stepped in to moderate a worsening situation by more or less taking over the new venture. Rodaway Thomas. The liner did not now have enough power to manoeuvre, should the need arise, but she did have enough momentum - plus the aid of tugs - to carry her through the harbour entrance. Across the Channel at Cherbourg the French authorities had proved much more amenable. 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. WebFirst time the Queen Mary carried American troops (8,398 troops, 905 crew). Sanders Samuel Donald . The passenger carrying business was now losing money: 1.9 million in 1962, 1.6 million in 1963 and 3 million in 1965. Chamberlain was also convinced of the tremendous importance from a prestige point of view of new large British ships steaming into New York harbour. Breakfast was from 6.30am until 11.am; and dinner from 3.pm to 7.30pm. As well as state-of-the-art weaponry and communications systems, HMS Queen Elizabeth boasts five gyms, a chapel and a medical centre. All these record series are indexed on theRecord Search database. It was eventually decided to send the QUEEN ELIZABETH to Canada for drydocking at Esquimalt. 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 Clydebank yard was awarded the contract with a tender of 4,293,000. the dock from her, on the north side of Pier 88, is the NORMANDIE. During the turnround in New York on her second G.I. 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. The fewer crossings were due to the, 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. On Thursday 10th December 1931, the Directors of the Cunard Steamship Company gathered to look at the provisional figures for the year's trading For the first time for very many years the Company had not made a profit. WebHMS Queen Elizabeth during the Second World War 1939-1945. [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. 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. 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. Subscribe now for regular news, updates and priority booking for events.Sign up, All content is available under the Open Government Licence This cumbersome organisation had involved double-accounting and separate staffing. Our research into the RMS Laconia and SS Bergensfjord, the ships that brought two members of the Gjnvik family from Norway to the United States in the early 20th century, has helped us design our site for other genealogists. The river was also widened in places, especially at Dalmuir where the QUEEN MARY had grounded for many anxious seconds as she proceeded to the Tail of the Bank. 09:00 to 17:00. 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.". As the moment arrived for the launch, the QUEEN ELIZABETH was delicately balanced on her slipway and for many hours previously, because of the removal of most of the supporting timbers, an almost imperceptible movement had already taken place. She would then have been remembered as the fine working ship that she undoubtedly was. Before the ship had even left her berth, one of the six operational boilers developed leaks in its tubes and was declared inoperable. 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. 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. Eight days later the 'slow boat to China' arrived at Hong Kong. Gregg William. Agreements and crew lists from the 19th century are occasionally accompanied by ships logs and this becomes increasingly common for 20th century records. 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. [citation needed]. This 'Glee Party', as it was known, then toured the vessel deck by deck. GGA Image ID # 1d36e82385 Queen Elizabeth (1940) Cunard Line Built by John Brown & Co., Clydebank, Glasgow, Scotland. Flt.Lt. The small vessel's skipper hoisted a flag signal: "What ship is that?" She was nonetheless a popular ship. 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. These had been floated down the Clyde in order to reduce the liner's weight and thus reduce her draught during that short critical journey. Use the search box in BT 99 to search by name of ship or official number. Kessler always maintained that the ship was the QUEEN ELIZABETH. As a result only twelve boilers were needed for the QUEEN ELIZABETH, rather than the twenty-four in the, Another obvious difference between the two ships was the lack of a forward well deck on the new QUEEN ELIZABETH. Our collection contains a sampling of what was originally produced and printed by the steamship lines. Cunard's appropriated pilot, Captain Bowyer, was not available as he was 'fogbound' on another vessel. 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. WebHMS Queen Elizabeth is the largest and most powerful vessel ever constructed for the Royal Navy. [25] However, the strategy did not prove successful, owing to the ship's deep draught, which prevented her from entering various island ports, her width, which prevented her from using the Panama Canal, and also her high fuel costs. This was known as a 'degaussing' coil. Promptly at 2.pm on 16th October 1946, the QUEEN ELIZABETH. 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 result brightened up the ship considerably after the years of drabness. Only the berth at John Brown could accommodate the King George V-class battleships. [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 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. That evening the crew was paid off and just 193 were retained to take the, In the early morning fog of 28th November 1968, the QUEEN ELIZABETH left Southampton for the last time. Four torpedoes were fired and the U-Boat followed their course. after a visit to the Liverpool Cruise Terminal. 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. The ELIZABETH just before she sailed from Port Everglades. Cherbourg was chosen as the French port for the new ships as it had deeper water and a larger harbour than Le Havre. 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. Search by ships name or number inBT 165 for selected logs covering the periods 1902-1920. The QUEEN ELIZABETH making her final arrival at Southampton at 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. The superheated steam needed to be cooled to normal working temperature before slowing the ship could even be considered. It is comparatively short - a long weekend by the express steamers or six and a half hours by air. [28], The ship was destroyed by the fire, and the water sprayed on her by fireboats caused the burnt wreck to sink in Hong Kong's Victoria Harbour. On 7th August 1946 the QUEEN ELIZABETH entered the King George V dry dock where her 140-ton rudder was inspected. Queen Elizabeth launches the QUEEN ELIZABETH. Search inBT 387for agreements and crew lists of allied foreign ships requisitioned or chartered by the British government in the Second World War. 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. Others speculated that the fires were the result of a conflict between Tung, a Chinese Nationalist, and Communist-dominated ship construction unions. The keel, boilers and engines remained at the bottom of the harbour, and the area was marked as "Foul" on local sea charts, warning ships not to try to anchor there. The 'Queens' experienced many difficulties when navigating the Solent due to yacht manoeuvres. 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. [17] In mid-March, carrying 8,000 American soldiers, Queen Elizabeth began a 7,700-mile voyage from San Francisco to Sydney, Australia. Paul earned a Masters of Archival Studies - a terminal degree from Clayton State University in Georgia, where he studied under renowned archivist Richard Pearce-Moses. [6] The two liners were replaced with the new, more economical Queen Elizabeth 2. She remained there until 11th March 1966 undergoing the 1.75 million refit and returned to Southampton with about 400 workmen on board who were completing the modernisation of cabins. The ship sat like a giant beacon in the middle of Clydebank, visible for miles around. 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. Sir Percy Bates told the Southern Railway that it was a question of 'no dry dock, no ship'. !!! The C.G.T. It was out of the question for the Elizabeth to sail up to John Brown's shipyard at Clydebank, so it was planned to ferry men and equipment out to the liner as she lay at anchor off the Tail of the Bank. He had no experience of handling ships as large as the 'Queens' and off Calshot at the entrance to Southampton Water the QUEEN ELIZABETH ran aground. The Americans wanted the work to be completed and then for the 'Elizabeth' to sail over to New York for inspection prior to approval and certification. At 11.15am the QUEEN ELIZABETH weighed anchor and was abeam the Cumbraes an hour later. GGA Image ID # 1d3753c0c2, RMS Queen Elizabeth Tourist Class Stateroom. She was to be fitted with Denny-Brown stabilisers whilst in the King George V dry dock. Whilst in Singapore many of the crew frequented a pub called the, After leaving Singapore the QUEEN ELIZABETH headed for Sydney. By six o'clock the next morning, thirteen tugs had arrived from Southampton, Portsmouth Dockyard and Poole. The fins were retractable into the hull to save fuel in smooth seas and for docking. Both fires were considered suspicious and detectives questioned 2,000 Thorneycroft workmen and some 400 crew. WebThe National Records of Scotland holds agreements and crew lists under the reference BT 3, covering 1867-1913, for Scottish ships only. 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. [citation needed]. In addition the QUEEN ELIZABETH's last master (Commodore Geoffrey Marr) and chief engineer (Mr Ted Philip) received invitations to come out of retirement and rejoin their old ship for the voyage. 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. With the forward well deck omitted, a more refined hull shape was achieved, and a sharper, raked bow was added for a third bow-anchor point. [9] Queen Elizabeth herself performed the launching ceremony on 27 September 1938. When a speed of 25 knots had been reached and maintained for one hour, the escorting warships were informed that the 'engine trials' had been satisfactory and that there was no objection to their standing down. It is comparatively short - a long weekend by the express steamers or six and a half hours by air. (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). They were filed at the Register Office of Merchant Seamen, the forerunner of the Registrar General of Shipping and Seamen (RGSS). In spite of the understandable Canadian protestations that they wanted their soldiers to step directly on to Canadian soil, Commodore Bisset recommended that future repatriations should be to either New York or Boston. Sanders Samuel Donald . 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. Some 30 Cunard staff had been retained, mostly engineers to assist in running the boilers and generators. The Cunard policy of the two-ship express service was thoroughly sound and at the same time economic. (from an original painting by Robert Lloyd). There are usually several boxes of records for each port of registry, each box containing an alphabetical range of ships names. WebRMS Queen Elizabeth History Pages. Later that day, at the time when she was due to arrive at Southampton, the city was bombed by the Luftwaffe. After several crossings with Joey on board, the crew began to grumble that the weather seemed to have taken a turn for the worse. 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. The King's Messenger was awaited as he would bring the order to sail. ', The QUEEN ELIZABETH slips away from Southampton for the, last time in the early morning fog of 28th November 1968. [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. 534 was laid on 27th December 1930. 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