26 Facts About The Queen Mary

The Queen Mary's left Southampton for the last time on 31 October 1967 and sailed to the port of Long Beach, California, United States, where she was permanently moored.

Work on Queen Mary resumed immediately and she was launched on 26 September 1934.

The Queen Mary's told the exact same anecdote that Braynard had published in his book.

Queen Mary was fitted with 24 Yarrow boilers in four boiler rooms and four Parsons turbines in two engine rooms.

On her way down the slipway, Queen Mary was slowed by eighteen drag chains, which checked the liner's progress into the River Clyde, a portion of which had been widened to accommodate the launch.

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Queen Mary sailed at high speed for most of her maiden voyage to New York, until heavy fog forced a reduction of speed on the final day of the crossing, arriving in New York Harbor on 1 June 1936.

Queen Mary design was criticised for being too traditional, especially when Normandie hull was revolutionary with a clipper-shaped, streamlined bow.

Queen Mary proved to be the more popular vessel than her rival, in terms of passengers carried.

Normandie was refitted with a new set of propellers in 1937 and reclaimed the honour, but in 1938 Queen Mary took back the Blue Riband in both directions with average speeds of 30.

In late August 1939, Queen Mary was on a return run from New York to Southampton.

Queen Mary left New York for Sydney, Australia, where she, along with several other liners, was converted into a troopship to carry Australian and New Zealand soldiers to the United Kingdom.

Queen Mary was carrying thousands of Americans of the 29th Infantry Division to join the Allied forces in Europe.

The Queen Mary was listed on the passenger manifests as "Colonel Warden".

From September 1946 to July 1947, Queen Mary was refitted for passenger service, adding air conditioning and upgrading her berth configuration to 711 first class, 707 cabin class and 577 tourist class passengers.

The Queen Mary's was refloated the next day and returned to service.

The Queen Mary Elizabeth was withdrawn in 1968 and The Queen Mary Elizabeth 2 took over the transatlantic route in 1969.

Queen Mary is permanently moored as a tourist attraction, hotel, museum and event facility in Long Beach.

Queen Mary was deemed a building, since most of her propellers had been removed and her machinery gutted.

Diners Club Queen Mary dissolved and vacated the ship in 1970 after their parent company, Diners Club International, was sold, and a change in corporate direction was mandated during the conversion process.

The DisneySea concept was recycled a decade later in Japan as Tokyo DisneySea, with a recreated ocean liner resembling Queen Mary named the SS Columbia as the centrepiece of the American Waterfront area.

The Queen Mary remained open until 31 December 1992 when it closed.

Stargazer Productions and Queen Mary transformed the space into a working dinner theatre complete with stage, lights, sound and scullery.

In late September 2009, management of Queen Mary was taken over by Delaware North Companies, who planned to continue the restoration and renovation of the ship and its property.

Salute was carried out with Queen Mary replying with her one working air horn in response to Queen Mary 2 sounding her combination of two brand new horns and an original 1934 Queen Mary horn, which is on loan from the City of Long Beach.

Queen Mary ceased operations in May 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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The Queen Mary Hotel promotes suite room B-340, a former third class cabin, as "notoriously haunted".