RMS Queen Mary facts for kids
RMS Queen Mary at Long Beach, California
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Name | RMS Queen Mary |
Operator | Cunard White Star Line |
Port of registry | Liverpool |
Ordered | 3 April 1929 |
Builder | list error: <br /> list (help) John Brown and Company Clydebank, Scotland |
Laid down | 1 December 1930 |
Launched | 26 September 1934 by Her Majesty the Queen |
Christened | 26 September 1934 |
Out of service | 9 December 1967 (retired) |
Identification | Radio Callsign GBTT |
Fate | Became a hotel ship |
Status | list error: <br /> list (help) Now hotel / restaurant / museum, Long Beach, California |
General characteristics | |
Type | Ocean liner |
Tonnage | 81,237 GRT |
Displacement | 81,961 tonnes |
Length | list error: <br /> list (help) 1,019.4 ft (310.7 m)* oa 965 ft (294.1 m)* B.P. |
Beam | 118 ft (36.0 m)* |
Height | 181 ft (55.2 m)* |
Draft | 39 ft (11.9 m)* |
Propulsion | 24 Yarrow boilers, 4 sets of Parsons single-reduction geared steam turbines on 4 shafts, 160.000 shp |
Speed | approximately 28.5 kn (52.8 km/h; 32.8 mph)* service speed. |
Capacity | 2139 passengers: 776 first (cabin) class, 784 tourist class, 579 third class |
Crew | 1101 crew |
RMS Queen Mary
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NRHP reference No. | 92001714 |
Added to NRHP | 15 April 1993 |
RMS Queen Mary is a ship in Long Beach, California. It is docked in the harbor. It was an ocean liner that sailed in the North Atlantic Ocean from 1936 to 1967.
With the outbreak of World War II, she was changed into a troopship. Queen Mary moved Allied soldiers for the rest of the war. Following the war, Queen Mary was refitted for passenger service.
The ship now is a tourist attraction featuring restaurants, a museum, and hotel. The ship is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Images for kids
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Scale models of Queen Mary (foreground) and Queen Elizabeth (background) created by John Brown & Company, on display at the Glasgow Museum of Transport
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"It's Men That Count", a late 1930s promotional poster for the Cunard Line
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Queen Mary on the North Sea, 1959
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Queen Mary's wireless radio room
See also
In Spanish: RMS Queen Mary para niños