August 2 - 7 First time a complete division was carried on any ship. Over 3,000 tons had to be pumped out eventually at a cost of 140,000 to Mr Tung. Shuttle work in earnest. 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. This was the catalyst, but not the only cause, of the withdrawal of the two, The QUEEN ELIZABETH was not successful as a cruise ship. Although the 'Queens' could easily manage 27 or 28 knots, they were reduced to the convoy's common speed of around 20 knots. The agreements were between master and crew and are also called Articles of agreement. There was now no hope of her entering service as the jewel of the British merchant marine. It is comparatively short - a long weekend by the express steamers or six and a half hours by air. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. The new centrally-placed companionway is in place in this photo and there's a repaint where the ladders once were. The QUEEN ELIZABETH in dry dock at Esquimalt, Vancouver Island, BC. In the event 600 tubes had to be changed and approval obtained from classification societies. 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.' For the QUEEN ELIZABETH the war was over. The QUEEN ELIZABETH berthed alongside the Ocean Terminal, at Southampton, taking on bunkers for her next voyage. 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). With Japan and the United States entering the war after the debacle of Pearl Harbor on 7th December 1941, the QUEEN ELIZABETH was laid up at Sydney for seven weeks. Queen Mary was retired from service on 9 December 1967, and sold to the city of Long Beach, California. At eleven o'clock that evening Captain Townley opened his sealed orders and the, Towards the end of 1940 additional seamen arrived on board the QUEEN ELIZABETH, having travelled from Halifax, N.S. On being told that she should not leave the yacht's helm unattended, she shouted that she had gone below to boil some milk! These are undeniable facts. As required by law, Commodore Bisset obligingly raised the Cunarder's recognition flags 'G B S S'. Her secret sailing was under British Government regulations, so as to lessen the danger of being sunk by the Germans. !!! Following the tradition of the Orient Overseas Line, the ship was renamed Seawise University,[9] as a play on Tung's initials (C.Y.'s). Queen Elizabeth and her daughters Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret joined the QUEEN ELIZABETH for the trials on 7th October. After that she sailed to the British naval base at Simonstown, to the south of Cape Town. 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. A thirty-seven day cruise from New York to the Mediterranean sailed on 21st February 1967 and was plagued by bad weather and many ports had to be omitted from the itinerary. Running mate: Queen Mary. However, Commodore Bisset was not happy with the location of the quay alongside which the Elizabeth was berthed and considered it too exposed should a strong south-east wind blow up; the resulting swell would cause the ship to range back and forth, possibly breaking her moorings. The QUEEN MARY and the QUEEN ELIZABETH met for the last time when they were both at sea. Some two thirds of Cunard's passengers crossed the Atlantic on holiday: hence the company's slogan 'Getting there is half the fun'. Barry Claud Barrington. The tourist-class cabins on D-Deck were always very warm despite every effort to provide adequate ventilation, and air-conditioning was urgently required. Other than for Southampton's Albion Band, the quayside was almost bereft of well-wishers. Dr Maguire said that he never did find out just who was responsible for that risky mid-ocean mail collecting. By using this site, you accept the use of cookies on your device. Rear Admiral Carruthers Joseph William. The QUEEN ELIZABETH was reported as being in excellent shape with her engines in tip-top condition. The anchors were examined and each link of her anchor chains painted. <<<<<< >>>>>>>. The maiden voyage had been arranged to depart from Southampton on 16th October 1946. After a ghost-like voyage across the Atlantic the QUEEN ELIZABETH arrived off the Florida coast on Saturday 7th December 1968. Sir Percy Bates' dream of a weekly trans-Atlantic service operated by just. Bdmn. The new centrally-placed companionway is in place in this photo and there's a repaint where the ladders once were. Townley had previously commanded Aquitania on one voyage, and several of Cunard's smaller vessels before that. 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. First Armored Infantry Division (15,125 troops, 863 crew). [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, 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. 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). Sir Basil Smallpiece said: "Although the QUEEN MARY's retirement at the end of 1967 had long been forecast, it had been hoped that the results of the QUEEN ELIZABETH's cruise programme last winter would confirm the viability of the Company's plan to keep her in service when the 'Q.4' [launched as the QUEEN ELIZABETH 2] comes along in 1969. The National Archives holds all the surviving crew lists and agreements for the Second World War and the succeeding years up to 1950. The QUEEN ELIZABETH alongside the quay at Cherbourg. She was back in New York on 19th August to begin her regular G.I. While waiting for the messenger, the ship was refuelled; adjustments to the compass and some final testing of equipment were also carried out before she sailed to her secret destination. 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. They were huge sitting targets in a hostile ocean. The ship sat like a giant beacon in the middle of Clydebank, visible for miles around. 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. Shuttle crossing. How much more dignified it would have been to have broken the ship up in 1968. [19] After 1942, the two Queens were relocated to the North Atlantic for the transportation of American troops to Europe. After her launch the QUEEN ELIZABETH was towed round to the fitting-out berth where she would remain for the next sixteen months. [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. 1951onwards This is not given in the Merchant seaman registers 1835-1857 until 1854. Kessler always maintained that the ship was the QUEEN ELIZABETH. Barry Claud Barrington. 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. 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) Under the terms of the Cunard Insurance Act, Cunard was obliged to start work on the second ship before the Act expired in 1936. Captain Marr decided to signal for tugs. The SEAWISE UNIVERSITY (ex QUEEN ELIZABETH) at Cape Town, on 14th June 1971, on passage to Hong Kong. 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. Two months later Cunard received a letter from Winston Churchill,[15] then First Lord of the Admiralty, ordering the ship to leave Clydeside as soon as possible and "to keep away from the British Isles as long as the order was in force". [37], The wreck was featured in the 1974 James Bond film The Man with the Golden Gun, as a covert headquarters for MI6. the dock from her, on the north side of Pier 88, is the NORMANDIE. Rodaway Thomas. The new ship was constructed on No.4 slipway by using 5-ton derrick cranes and a 10-ton tower crane. All that required to be done was drydocking in Japan. 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. and acceptance trials over the Arran Mile, in the Firth of Clyde. 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. The two funnels were self-supporting and braced internally to give a cleaner-looking appearance. WebThe National Records of Scotland holds agreements and crew lists under the reference BT 3, covering 1867-1913, for Scottish ships only. [21] After her trials Queen Elizabeth finally entered passenger service, allowing Cunard White Star to launch the long-planned two-ship weekly service to New York. The QUEEN ELIZABETH approaching the north side of Pier 90 at New York. Built by John Brown & Co., Clydebank, Glasgow, Scotland. Shuttle voyage from Southampton, Commodore James Bisset had the Elizabeth's wartime grey funnels repainted in Cunard's red and black. On her maiden voyage in 1928, the German liner BREMEN captured, the Blue Riband of the North Atlantic, crossing from the Bishop Rock. 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. Heavy castings were erected by using derrick poles or sheer legs. on her departure from the Clyde on 12th March 1966. A Schedule D form was headed Accounts Of Voyages And Crew For Home Trade 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. Shuttle' the two Queens were never in the same port at the same time, and the schedules avoided either ship lying at anchor at Gourock during the period of full moon. Cunard White Star Tourist Class, January 1949. Many local archives hold the records relating to their local ports. They begin to appear amongst the records from 1852 onwards; many have been destroyed; usually only those recording a birth or death have survived. Works of art were also renovated by the original artists. [15] The names of Brown's shipyard employees were booked to local hotels in Southampton to give a false trail of information, and Captain John Townley was appointed as her first master. He described it as 'a British understatement with a vengeance, as though the British world of ships and shiplovers looked the other way until she had gone. The passage time to Nassau would be 39 hours each way, giving passengers almost two full days there. Breakfast was from 6.30am until 11.am; and dinner from 3.pm to 7.30pm. The QUEEN ELIZABETH was back in service on the North Atlantic on 26th March 1966, but with 150 cabins still not completed, she carried Harland & Wolff workmen with her to finish the job. 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. WebThe Queen Elizabeth is the newest addition to the Cunard Line and made its debut voyage in October 2010. Search by name of ship inBT 100for the agreements and crew lists of a selection of celebrated ships. However, to stop the QUEEN ELIZABETH would take considerable time. Photographed on the QUEEN ELIZABETH, sometime. There was no one on deck, but when the yacht was hailed an old lady appeared from below. They became an establishment, a familiar sight to those who saw them arriving and departing, and a way of life to the crew who sailed them. 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. The QUEEN ELIZABETH approaching her wartime anchorage at the Tail of the Bank. 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. 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. In that year there would be only two days on which a high enough tide would be available to move the QUEEN ELIZABETH. Very few seem to have been preserved in official archives in the UK, although occasionally a Release (List M) for the whole crew may be found with the crew lists inBT 98. The QUEEN ELIZABETH docked at Southampton at 11.am on 10th October. To find a ships official number go to theCrew List Index Project(CLIP) website, which has information about merchant ships from 1855 to 1913, or theMiramar Ship Indexwebsite (subscription required) which lists some categories of merchant and naval ships. There are usually several boxes of records for each port of registry, each box containing an alphabetical range of ships names. WebHMS Queen Elizabeth during the Second World War 1939-1945. 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. The climate of southern Florida was much harder on Queen Elizabeth than the climate of southern California was on Queen Mary. The purpose of the visit was to enable Queen Elizabeth to present the ship with her personal standard, to be framed and hung in the first-class restaurant. A fortnight later, on 21st March 1940, the QUEEN MARY slipped quietly away: her work as a troop transport was about to begin. By 1960 the jets had 70% of the transatlantic business. 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. [21] Queen Elizabeth's engines were capable of driving her to speeds of over 32 knots. In 1961 Cunard liners were to make 207 sailings to and from New York. 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 superheated steam needed to be cooled to normal working temperature before slowing the ship could even be considered. On 22nd August 1939 it was announced that the maiden voyage of the QUEEN ELIZABETH was scheduled to leave Southampton on 24th April 1940. WebHMS Queen Elizabeth is the largest and most powerful vessel ever constructed for the Royal Navy. GGA Image ID # 1d36e82385. 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. For the first time in several years the QUEEN ELIZABETH began to show a profit. CPO. [9], In 1955, during an annual overhaul at Southampton, England, Queen Elizabeth was fitted with underwater fin stabilisers to smooth the ride in rough seas. He presented the ship with a plaque from the Department of Defense to commemorate the liner's remarkable war service. Shipwrecks and maritime incidents in 1947, Shipwrecks and maritime incidents in 1965, Shipwrecks and maritime incidents in 1972, RMS Queen Elizabeth from Victory to Valhalla. However, the launching ceremony, which was being broadcast to the nation by radio, did not go without incident. Launched, September 27, 1938. The Australians also needed what was left of their depleted army for their country's own defence in case of Japanese invasion. 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. 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. The maiden voyage had been arranged to depart from Southampton on 16th October 1946. For the purpose of this list, they have been included as Cunard ships. The Clydebank yard was awarded the contract with a tender of 4,293,000. It is estimated that around 4050% of the wreck was still on the seabed. Sir Percy Bates had wisely waited for anticipated developments in boiler design to occur. The ELIZABETH (the prefix 'Queen' was dropped at Cunard's request) was opened to the public on 14th February 1969. 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. Despite the effectiveness of the new stabilisers to minimise rolling, nothing could be done to reduce the pitching. The Maritime History Archive search their Crew List Index by ships official number. In the event the results have been very far from satisfactory, The Board's decision to withdraw the QUEEN ELIZABETH is part of the unrelenting process of facing realities in its determination to put the Company on to a paying basis.". On board was the ship's namesake, Queen Elizabeth, and her two daughters, Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret. The QUEEN ELIZABETH was embedded in mud to a point just below the bridge. At first it was proposed that work on the, Questions were soon asked in Parliament as to what possible use the two Cunard leviathans could be in wartime. This awe-inspiring warship is capable of carrying up to 40 aircraft. A skilled craftsman working on the QUEEN ELIZABETH earned just 3.2s.0d for a 47-hour work. The hull was cut into sections of up to 250 tons each and, in all, some 45,000 tons of metal were lifted from the wreck. They would follow the natural progression of developments then taking place in marine engineering and in naval architecture. The dock could be emptied of its 180,000 tons of water in four hours. Flt.Lt. These agreements are unlikely to be held in any archive in the UK, but if any do survive, they may be in the archives of shipping companies such as P&O or the British India Steam Navigation Company, or in the East India Company Archives held at the British Library. 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. [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. 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. wartime home port, for the very last time on 12th March 1966. Image of a ships muster roll 1770-1775 (catalogue reference: BT 98/3). 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 result brightened up the ship considerably after the years of drabness. 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. being transported (not for $100) in the QUEEN ELIZABETH who, in a burst of enthusiasm, said to one of the officers: A fortnight later, on Monday 20th August 1945, the QUEEN ELIZABETH arrived in Southampton for the first time - four and a half years late. By the end of the year Queen Inc. was bankrupt with debts of $12 million. Her propellers were removed and cleaned and the underwater hull cleaned and painted. 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. A/CPO Lornie Peter Barnard. 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 QUEEN ELIZABETH left Southampton on 30th March 1946 and arrived and anchored off Greenock the following day. Then, with the same pair of gold scissors that Queen Mary had used to perform the launching ceremony of her namesake, she cut the red, white and blue ribbon which released the bottle of Empire wine to break, just in time, against the new ship's accelerating bow. 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). First Armored Infantry Division (15,125 troops, 863 crew). The QUEEN ELIZABETH's bow, unlike that of the Mary, was heavily raked. The lady then tied her yacht up to a buoy (a forbidden practice carrying a heavy fine), and two days later Southampton Harbour Board received a letter from the lady alleging her yacht had been 'interfered with' by the QUEEN ELIZABETH. RMS Carpathia - History, Accommodations, & Ephemera Collection. Tonnage: 83,673. These earlier records were organised by port of registry and then alphabetically by name of ship (see the respective sections below for advice on finding earlier records). WebThe RMS Queen Elizabeth was an ocean liner operated by Cunard Line. For the first time it seemed possible that two ships could be built which would be able to maintain a weekly express service between Southampton and New York, doing the work previously done by three ships. Within that context, as Sir Percy Bates, the chairman of the Cunard Steamship Company, never tired of explaining: "The two new vessels represent the smallest and slowest ships which can fulfill these conditions and accomplish such a regular service. From the outset the intention had been to operate a two-ship service on the North Atlantic. The Elizabeth's final round voyage to New York left Southampton on 23rd October 1968. That evening the crew was paid off and just 193 were retained to take the Elizabeth on her delivery voyage to Fort Lauderdale. The QUEEN ELIZABETH sailing from Southampton. 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. 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. 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 WebLists can also include passengers who were family members of seamen. There were four fins, two on either side of the ship. May 11 - 16 First time more than 10,000 persons had traveled on any ship (9,880 troops, 875 crew). Steam locomotives delivered the steel plates, but lighter items were brought in by horse-drawn lorries. 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. It was not until 1926 that Cunard began thinking about the replacements for the express steamers. 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. 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