In 1965, the shipping company started noticing financial losses and the Queen Mary was taken out of service in 1967. And because there were no outside swimming pools, it could no longer pass as a cruise ship. Besides, the ship was so big it didn’t fit through the Panama Canal. Suddenly people didn’t have to travel for days any more but just a couple of hours! Sometimes there was more crew on board than travelers. But from 1958 it was also possible to cross the Trans-Atlantic by air. It became even more luxurious and more beautiful than it was before the war. After the warįrom September 1946 to July 1947 the ship was turned into a passenger ship again. Exactly how many people died on board the RMS Queen Mary is unknown. The German and Italian prisoners rather committed suicide on board than to be prosecuted. And that for hours on end! The Queen Mary also took prisoners of war on board to have them extradited. Every 7 minutes a soldier would have died on that ship because of the heat. There wasn’t any air-conditioning back then.
How many casualties there were during this incident is unknown.īecause of the many men on board, the temperature could rise unbearably. At that time, the ship had its most men in history on board, namely 16.082 people. Another 3 degrees and it would have sunk. In December of that same year, The Queen Mary almost capsized caused by a sudden tidal wave near the Scottish coastline.Ī 92 foot (28 m) high wave turned the ship 52 degrees within a blink of an eye. Later, the 99 survivors of the Curacao were taken on board of this ship. The Queen Mary was ordered not to stop and help in case of a submarine attack. The ship broke in two, and 239 of the 338 crew members died.
This much smaller ship was assigned to lead The Queen Mary through hostile territory. On October 2nd 1942 The Queen Mary accidentally sank the HMS Curacao by collision just outside the Irish coast. Both ships were so fast they were able to beat the fastest submarines. All the carpet, furniture, china and crystal was removed from the luxurious ship and replaced for heavy armor. She was painted marine grey and got nicknamed “The Grey Ghost”. During the Second World War, The Queen Mary, along with her younger, bigger sister The Queen Elizabeth, was used as a warship. Gagliaridi Photographyįor a short time, The Queen Mary lost her title to The Normandy, but won it back in 1938. The ship was very fast despite its measurements and won the “Blue Pennant” in 1936 for being the fastest ship of the world. The Queen Mary was built by the Scottish shipbuilding company John Brown & Co and was baptized by Mary Teck, consort of the British King George V. The Cunard Line Shipping Company also owned the RMS Titanic that was built 20 years prior to this ship. It was launched in 1931 and it had her maiden voyage on May 27th 1936. The RMS Queen Mary was ordered on April 3rd 1929 by the Cunard Line Shipping Company. People who have stayed here overnight might have had a spooky encounter with one of the ship’s ghostly residents.
Today it serves as a museum and a hotel, although it got in financial trouble in 2021 and is currently closed. And then converted into SFM.The Royal Mail Ship (RMS) The Queen Mary is a former Trans-Atlantic passenger ship that is currently permanently anchored in Long Beach, California.
Originaly a mod from Silent Hunter 3 then Converted to Virtual Sailor 7 or Vehicle Simulator and from another guy that reuploaded from the Virtual sailor addon library. To to beat the Titanic's size (or should a say rescale), set size to the root bone (not the root transform bone) to 14 or 15
This model is my (maybe) the worst one I have ever converted.īecause (in my opinion) the decks are bad. I could not find the best Queen Mary Model I could find. Queen Mary was the flagship of the Cunard Line from May 1936 until October 1946 when she was replaced in that role by Queen Elizabeth. The two ships were a British response to the express superliners built by German, Italian and French companies in the late 1920s and early 1930s. Built by John Brown & Company in Clydebank, Scotland, Queen Mary, along with RMS Queen Elizabeth, were built as part of Cunard's planned two-ship weekly express service between Southampton, Cherbourg and New York. The RMS Queen Mary is a retired British ocean liner that sailed primarily on the North Atlantic Ocean from 1936 to 1967 for the Cunard Line ? known as Cunard-White Star Line when the vessel entered service.