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. Many of the QUEEN ELIZABETH's fittings had been placed ashore in New York, Sydney and Singapore when she was converted into a troopship and all these globally scattered items had to be returned to Southampton for refurbishment, assembly, sorting and fitting. 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. The business was unsuccessful, and closed in August 1970. At the end of her time at Gourock one thousand Clydebankers ('Bankies') sailed south with the ship to alleviate the acute shortage of local skilled labour at Southampton. Four torpedoes were fired and the U-Boat followed their course. ", The promenade deck main square on the QUEEN ELIZABETH. Many of these souvenir passenger lists have disappeared over the years. Within each box the lists are randomly arranged. REINA DEL PACIFICO PACIFIC STEAM NAVIGATION. Reliable boilers would have to be chosen as there would be no opportunity for boiler cleaning in port. In an lighter vein, it should not be forgotten that it was a G.I. WebThe RMS Queen Elizabeth was an ocean liner operated by Cunard Line. The object of fitting the coil (one of the first to be so fitted) was hopefully to render the ship immune from magnetic mines by neutralising the ship's magnetic field. All the Cunard records from that period have apparently been lost. Shuttle voyage from Southampton, Commodore James Bisset had the Elizabeth's wartime grey funnels repainted in Cunard's red and black. 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In September 1969 a hurricane warning caused the then almost deserted ship to be partially scuttled to prevent her tearing away from her berth. The Cunard Board had decided, therefore, in view of the changing pattern of the passenger business, much of which could be attributed to political anxiety, that it would be foolish at this juncture to embark on a new capital ship. The two ships' real potential had yet to be appreciated. 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. When Cunard requested that the Americans send over an inspector to approve the improvement work as it progressed, the authorities declined. The QUEEN ELIZABETH almost ready for launching, The QUEEN ELIZABETH towers over the tenements of Clydebank. The experiment lasted three voyages before the bandits were given a dishonourable discharge. Early in the afternoon of 9th November a large, two-funnelled steamer was sighted, some six to seven miles away. The Directors were faced with the almost unbelievable fact that the gross revenue of the Company for the year was calculated to be nearly 2.5 million down on 1930. 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. Sanders Samuel Donald . 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). Other than for Southampton's Albion Band, the quayside was almost bereft of well-wishers. The small vessel's skipper hoisted a flag signal: "What ship is that?" She then stopped for a few minutes before proceeding on her way. She had crossed the North Atlantic Ocean 896 times in peacetime, and had carried 2,300,000 passengers, steaming 3,472,675 nautical miles in the process, On 6th November 1968 Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother visited the ship for the very last time. Promptly at 2.pm the liner pulled away from the quayside. A painting by Captain Stephen J Card of the two 'Queens' passing in, mid-Atlantic. After that she sailed to the British naval base at Simonstown, to the south of Cape Town. Search inBT 387for agreements and crew lists of allied foreign ships requisitioned or chartered by the British government in the Second World War. [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. There were only five dry docks in the world which could accommodate the Elizabeth. (from an original painting by Robert Lloyd). From there she sailed to Simonstown (Cape Town) where German prisoners of war boarded, heading for internment in the United States. The cruiser HMAS CANBERRA had lowered a pinnace which was cruising calmly around collecting bags of mail from each. The continuing popularity of the 'Queens' was shown by the fact that they carried 110,800 passengers between them in 1960. 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. You can, however, search for crew lists and agreements using the names of the seamen from 1881, 1891 and 1915 by ships number for all other years (see section 8.4 for more information). WebHMS Queen Elizabeth during the Second World War 1939-1945. For the first time in several years the QUEEN ELIZABETH began to show a profit. Although the 'Queens' could easily manage 27 or 28 knots, they were reduced to the convoy's common speed of around 20 knots. Originally vetoing the idea of allowing her portrait to be hung in the ship when the liner was launched, Queen Elizabeth had now relented. 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. A Schedule D form was headed Accounts Of Voyages And Crew For Home Trade Ship. Contact them directly to find out more. Winter cruises from New York to the West Indies were poorly patronised and one was cancelled and replaced with an unscheduled Atlantic crossing. The route between America and Europe had characteristics very different from others, said Colonel Bates. The original design for the engines was for single-reduction geared turbines, the brainchild of Sir Charles Parsons, in which a reduction gear box is placed between the turbine and the propeller shaft for the purpose of allowing both the turbines and the propellers to run at speeds of revolution suitable for maximum efficiency; high speeds of revolution are required for turbine efficiency and low speeds for propeller efficiency. The QUEEN ELIZABETH dominates a cricket match during. Chamberlain was also convinced of the tremendous importance from a prestige point of view of new large British ships steaming into New York harbour. For records from 1915 you can also search from our dedicated1915 crew lists pagefor online transcriptions of the records from that year search results will include records held at the National Maritime Museum so check the held by information on the page to find out where you can view the original document. The QUEEN ELIZABETH's bow, unlike that of the Mary, was heavily raked. Dimensions, 987' x 118' (1,031' o.l.). [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. Commenced her first sailing from the Clyde, bound for New York, February 27, 1940. Cunard White Star Tourist Class, January 1949. (The Singapore facility was no longer available). 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. 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 unreliability of statistics - or should it be said the ability to interpret them in several ways - is illustrated in the case of the UNITED STATES and the QUEEN ELIZABETH. There was now no hope of her entering service as the jewel of the British merchant marine. The new QUEEN ELIZABETH passes Mariners' Park, Wallasey. Coincidentally, just one week later, the EMPRESS OF CANADA was burnt out in Gladstone Dock at Liverpool. Photographed on the QUEEN ELIZABETH, sometime. Cunard White Star Tourist Class, January 1949. Mildenhall Wilfred Charles. WebThe National Records of Scotland holds agreements and crew lists under the reference BT 3, covering 1867-1913, for Scottish ships only. Flt.Lt. Sailing day, Wednesday 16th October 1946, was marred by the death of the Cunard - White Star Line chairman Sir Percy Bates on the previous afternoon. The following day, 8th October, four hundred guests of the Cunard Company boarded the QUEEN ELIZABETH for the return passage to Southampton. The majority of the QUEEN ELIZABETH's crew left for home on Cunard's SCYTHIA, leaving just 143 men to form a skeleton crew. Each piece in this series covers a number of ships and therefore appears in our catalogue as a range of numbers. They include registers of engagement, articles of agreement, registers of discharge, registers of deserters, and employment history records. Two months later the purchasers realised that the river was not deep enough. Mr C.Y. CPO. On the orders of the neutral American government (in accordance with the Geneva Convention), only maintenance or construction work of a non-beligerent nature could be carried out on the liners moored along the New York waterfront. Before the ship had even left her berth, one of the six operational boilers developed leaks in its tubes and was declared inoperable. There are usually several boxes of records for each port of registry, each box containing an alphabetical range of ships names. Many thanks to Ted Finch for his assistance in collecting this data. 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. Mildenhall Wilfred Charles. They first appear in the records around 1852; many have been destroyed, with only those recording a birth or death surviving. Dr Maguire said that he never did find out just who was responsible for that risky mid-ocean mail collecting. her summer overhaul in the King George V dry dock. There was no one on deck, but when the yacht was hailed an old lady appeared from below. She did, however, remain all the while under Cunard management with British officers and crew. The prominent square ventilation cowls on the Mary were also dispensed with on the new ship; fans of a newer design were installed inside the ship. On 7th August 1946 the QUEEN ELIZABETH entered the King George V dry dock where her 140-ton rudder was inspected. Many do not survive at all whilst significant proportions of those that do survive are held at other archives, most notably: The National Archives holds the following proportions of surviving crew lists and agreements after 1861: Local archives took some of the records for the period 1863-1913 (see section 12). 1951onwards 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. The minimum rate for each cruise would be $185 or 66. 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 trend of development in the design of Atlantic liners since the coming of steam had been towards larger and faster ships; the larger ships being more comfortable as they were less affected by the elements, whilst the increased speed shortened the trip. This will findBT 98/6795which covers ships numbers 25801-25834 for the year 1860. Quadruple-screw, 31 knots. Later that day, at the time when she was due to arrive at Southampton, the city was bombed by the Luftwaffe. On 28th May 1930, the Cunard Company told John Brown & Company of Clydebank that it had been selected as the builder of the first of the two new ships. in the late 1940s, are (left to right): Elizabeth Sayers, Margaret Morton. Their 10% of the surviving records are, in general, for years ending with five (1865, 1875, and so on), though they do hold records for some other years too. In the early morning fog of 28th November 1968, the QUEEN ELIZABETH left Southampton for the last time. Bdmn. 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. A fortnight later, on Monday 20th August 1945, the QUEEN ELIZABETH arrived in Southampton for the first time - four and a half years late. There was a great rumpus and the yacht owner was traced. GGA Image ID # 1d36e82385. RMS Queen Elizabeth Tourist Class Restaurant. Not only that, but the company headquarters was transferred from Liverpool to Southampton. On 1st January 1950 the Cunard Steamship Company took over its wholly-owned subsidiary, Cunard - White Star. GGA Image ID # 1d36e82385 Queen Elizabeth (1940) Cunard Line Built by John Brown & Co., Clydebank, Glasgow, Scotland. Over a two-hour period engine revolutions were increased from 100 (17 knots) to 154 (26 knots). The QUEEN MARY's arch rival on the North Atlantic - the French Line's superb NORMANDIE - was studied in detail. WebThe Queen Elizabeth is the newest addition to the Cunard Line and made its debut voyage in October 2010. Shuttle', her first such voyage leaving New York for the Clyde on 5th June 1942. To a post-war Britain she was to become what the, The QUEEN ELIZABETH left Southampton on 30th March 1946 and arrived and anchored off Greenock the following day. Discovery is a catalogue of archival records across the UK and beyond, from which you can search 32 million records. From 1845 onwards the following lists were being used: Schedules C, D and A, B, G. The troops would board the Elizabeth at Pier 90 at New York during the late evening hours under cover of darkness after being transported to the pier by either ferry or bus. finally arrives at Hong Kong on 15th July 1971. Use the search box contained in BT 98 to search by date and name of ships port of registry. Suggestions ranged from laying up the, At a boat drill on 27th February the assembled crew were told of Churchill's order that the ship was to leave British waters. After a ghost-like voyage across the Atlantic the QUEEN ELIZABETH arrived off the Florida coast on Saturday 7th December 1968. The Clydebank yard was awarded the contract with a tender of 4,293,000. The dock would have to be 124 feet wide at its entrance and have a minimum depth of 40 feet. WebAll surviving agreements and crew lists with their logbooks are held by The National Archives, Ruskin Avenue, Kew, Richmond, Surrey TW9 4DU. Shuttle work in earnest. WebRMS Queen Elizabeth History Pages. Evangelist Billy Graham offered 2.1 million for her to become a floating bible school, and the United States Institute of Technology wanted her to become a floating university. This is the story of the ship from the planning stages of the late 1920s, her war operations, her amazingly successful passenger service of the late 1940s and 1950s, and her demise in the mid 1960s. The QUEEN ELIZABETH entering the harbour at. It is comparatively short - a long weekend by the express steamers or six and a half hours by air. With just enough room for a man to squeeze into his standee. The first meeting of the two 'Queens' at sea - off Sydney Heads in 1941. The distance to be covered in a year would be about 145,000 nautical miles. As soon as the decision to retire the 'Elizabeth' was made public, her cruises and Western Ocean crossings became popular with those who had travelled on and had loved the ship over the kength of her career. Agreements for Home Trade Ships (Schedule B)These agreements covered coastal and fishing ships. 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. May 11 - 16 First time more than 10,000 persons had traveled on any ship (9,880 troops, 875 crew). Cunard's appropriated pilot, Captain Bowyer, was not available as he was 'fogbound' on another vessel. Whilst in Singapore many of the crew frequented a pub called the 'Pig and Whistle'. In July the ship was sold for $8.64 million to a company called Queen Inc. Queen Elizabeth leaving New York during her last voyage, 1968. The normal insurance market would not be able to provide cover for anything like the whole cost. 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. Her brother, the Hon. 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. Others speculated that the fires were the result of a conflict between Tung, a Chinese Nationalist, and Communist-dominated ship construction unions. The QUEEN ELIZABETH slips away from John Brown's shipyard. On 14th June 1971 the liner reached Cape Town and on 7th July called at Singapore. Whilst in Singapore many of the crew frequented a pub called the, After leaving Singapore the QUEEN ELIZABETH headed for Sydney. 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. The ship sat like a giant beacon in the middle of Clydebank, visible for miles around. On 5th April 1968 Cunard announced its decision. In May 1930, Cunard began to make tentative enquiries about the possibility of dry-docking facilities at Southampton for its two new superliners. 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. A/CPO Lornie Peter Barnard. 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. The popularity of the two 'Queens' meant enormous profits for the Cunard Line and the two ships repaid their original investments many times over. Any search results will be divided into alphabetical ranges according to the initial letter of the ships name. She docked on the north side of Pier 90 at 5.pm on the afternoon of Thursday, 7th March 1940. In the foreground are the United States. This limited the turn-round at both Southampton and New York to just 36 hours which by current standards sounds very leisurely indeed! Three years later it was announced that the QUEEN ELIZABETH would return to the Clyde in December 1965 for extensive improvements by her builders, John Brown & Company. Half-yearly crew lists for ships on home voyages (Schedule D) However, a labour force from the Todd Shipyard at Brooklyn had been contracted to further the completion of the QUEEN ELIZABETH. Sir James Bisset was in command of the QUEEN ELIZABETH for many of these 'shuttle' voyages. The UNITED STATES took the 'Blue Riband' on her maiden voyage. The Elizabeth sailed at 8.pm. L.Sea. 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. 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. 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. 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. The Maritime History Archive search their Crew List Index by ships official number. 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. Seesection 7.2. For just fourteen days between 7th and 21st March 1940, the world's three, largest liners were together at New York. Ships did not have an official number before 1855. Shuttle, there were six sittings for each of two meals. These records, which collectively date from 1747 to the 1990s, can providebrief details of ships, the voyages they took and their crew. Click onBT 98to search by date and name of British port where the ship was registered. He went on deck and saw three great ships - the two 'Queens' and the ILE DE FRANCE stationary. Tung and contained much well looked after second hand tonnage within its fleet. 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. The King's Messenger was awaited as he would bring the order to sail. 83,673 Gross Tons -- 2,314 Passengers. However, because of the prestigious nature of the Elizabeth's maiden arrival at New York as a commercial passenger liner, Commodore Bisset decided to press on and dock the ship at Pier 90 without the aid of tugs if necessary. From 1857 onwards, the records are arranged in BT 98 by ships Official Number (ON). I have agreed in principle." October 2 Over 3,000 tons had to be pumped out eventually at a cost of 140,000 to Mr Tung. 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. They were logged at ports such as Madras and Bombay under the direction of the Serang or Headman of the port. Cunard's appropriated pilot, Captain Bowyer, was not available as he was 'fogbound' on another vessel. The SEAWISE UNIVERSITY (ex QUEEN ELIZABETH). Four days later she arrived at Halifax, Nova Scotia, with 12,517 passengers and 864 crew. WebRMS Queen Mary: 80,774 GRT: 1936: Currently a Hotel ship 16 October 1946 (entered service) RMS Queen Elizabeth: 83,673 GRT: 314 m (1,031 ft) 1946 1972 (Destroyed by fire) Scrapped in 1974 (after sinking) 3 February 1962 (entered service) SS France (1962-1980) SS Norway (post-1980) 66,343 GRT(as built) 76,049 GRT (final size) 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. Another obvious difference between the two ships was the lack of a forward well deck on the new QUEEN ELIZABETH. REINA DEL MAR PACIFIC STEAM NAVIGATION CO. Queen Elizabeth and Queen Mary were used as troop transports during the Second World War. By six o'clock the next morning, thirteen tugs had arrived from Southampton, Portsmouth Dockyard and Poole. Costing almost twice as much as the, Sir Percy Bates had wisely waited for anticipated developments in boiler design to occur. Because of the world depression, construction work had not gone very far before it was suspended.. 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. Running mate: Queen Mary. The new company intended to operate the ship as a hotel and tourist attraction in Port Everglades, Florida, similar to the planned use of Queen Mary in Long Beach, California. The new centrally-placed companionway is in place in this photo and there's a repaint where the ladders once were. All this seemingly had no end, but this complacency would be destroyed completely in the 1960s. WebAll surviving agreements and crew lists with their logbooks are held by The National Archives, Ruskin Avenue, Kew, Richmond, Surrey TW9 4DU. For the QUEEN ELIZABETH the war was over. After a call at Rio de Janeiro, the, The QUEEN ELIZABETH was now equipped to carry 15,000 troops although the numbers were reduced to 12,000 in the winter months. The QUEEN ELIZABETH sailing from Southampton. The Philadelphia businessmen still held a small interest in the new company and would lease the ship from Cunard for $2 million a year. Boat drill was carried out on departure from New York. In the event 600 tubes had to be changed and approval obtained from classification societies. They are (left to right). WebThe Cunard - White Star Liner QUEEN ELIZABETH 1938 - 1972 LIVERPOOL SHIPS ACCRA OF 1947 ELDER DEMPSTER LINES AUREOL ELDER DEMPSTER LINES BRITANNIC and GEORGIC CUNARD WHITE STAR CARINTHIA CUNARD LINE EMPRESS OF BRITAIN CANADIAN PACIFIC EMPRESS OF CANADA LOSS BY FIRE the dock from her, on the north side of Pier 88, is the NORMANDIE. The Hales Trophy, awarded for the Atlantic speed record, left Southampton on 8th November 1952 on board the new holder, the UNITED STATES, which crossed from New York to Bishop Rock at 35.59 knots on her maiden voyage. With White Star now under Cunard's wing, Harland & Wolff at Belfast were also invited to tender, a position not previously open to them. The QUEEN ELIZABETH departing from the river of her birth, and her. 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. 1951onwards For the purpose of this list, they have been included as Cunard ships. The year 1960 proved to be another good one for Cunard. ", Neville Chamberlain, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, was convinced that faced with the growing competition from foreign liner companies there was not room for two big British companies acting in opposition to each other on the North Atlantic trade. It was reasoned, therefore, that if the passage time could be reduced to five days, it would be possible for two ships on a fortnightly service to do the work of three. 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. The QUEEN ELIZABETH was the culmination of Sir Percy Bates' own initiative; the fulfilment of a long-cherished dream held by many shipowners; that a weekly trans-Atlantic ferry service should be maintained by two ships rather than by three, or even four (sometimes mismatched) vessels that had previously - and expensively - been required. 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