RMS Queen Mary
Sign in to saveAlso known as Queen Mary, IMO 5287938, IMO 5528793
retired British ocean liner
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The entry is geolocated on the map in CA.
It sits within the topics 1934 ships, Art Deco ships and Blue Riband holders.
Its subject is documented across 34 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Name
- Queen Mary
- Namesake
- Mary, Queen of the United Kingdom
- Owner
- 1936–49: Cunard-White Star Line 1949–67: Cunard Line 1967–present: City of Long Beach
- Port of registry
- Liverpool
- Route
- Southampton to New York via Cherbourg
- Ordered
- 3 April 1929
- Builder
- John Brown & Company Clydebank , Scotland
- Laid down
- 1 December 1930
- Launched
- 26 September 1934
- Sponsored by
- Queen Mary
- Christened
- 26 September 1934
- Maiden voyage
- 27 May 1936
- In service
- 1936–1967
- Out of service
- 9 December 1967
- Identification
- IMO number : 5287938 Radio Callsign: GBTT
- Status
- Retired as a floating hotel and museum ship, Long Beach .
- Type
- Ocean liner
- Tonnage
- 80,774 GRT , 34,118 NRT (1936) 81,237 GRT , 33,073 NRT (1947)
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Wikidata facts
- Named after
- Mary of Teck
- Official name
- Queen Mary
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Long Beach
- Owned by
- Cunard Line
- Manufacturer
- John Brown & Company
- Official website
- www.queenmary.com
- Image
- RMS Queen Mary Long Beach January 2011 view.jpg
- Length
- 310.74
- Speed
- 33
- Significant event
- ship naming ceremony
- Has use
- museum ship
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- country of registry
- United States
- service entry
- 1936-00-00
- Commons category
- IMO 5287938
- yard number
- 534
- native label
- A landmark of Long Beach, California and preserved tribute to luxury travel in a bygone era, the historic Queen Mary ocean liner has closed to undergo what the city calls “critical repairs” necessary to preserve the historic ship.
- draft
- 11.9
- beam
- 36.14
- call sign
- GB5QM
- shipping port
- Liverpool
- maximum capacity
- 2280
- location of creation
- John Brown & Company
- port of registry
- Liverpool
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Encyclopedic overview
RMS Queen Mary is a retired British ocean liner that operated primarily on the North Atlantic Ocean from 1936 to 1967 for the Cunard Line. It is currently a hotel, museum, and convention space in Long Beach, California, United States. It is on the US National Register of Historic Places and member of Historic Hotels of America, the official program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Built by John Brown & Company in Clydebank, Scotland, she was subsequently joined by RMS Queen Elizabeth in Cunard's two-ship weekly express service between Southampton, Cherbourg and New York. These "Queens" were the British response to the express superliners built by German, Italian, and French companies in the late 1920s and early 1930s.
Queen Mary sailed on her maiden voyage on 27 May 1936 and won the Blue Riband that August; she lost the title to SS Normandie in 1937 and recaptured it in 1938, holding it until 1952, when the new SS United States claimed it. With the outbreak of World War II, she was converted into a troopship and ferried Allied soldiers during the conflict. On one voyage in 1943, she carried over 16,600 people, setting a record for the most people carried on one vessel at the same time that still stands today.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “RMS Queen Mary” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.