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19 wrz 2024 · After the war, the Queen Mary resumed its career as a passenger liner. Following a retrofit , the ship made its first postwar commercial voyage in July 1947. It enjoyed huge popularity until the 1960s, when airplane travel led to dwindling interest in transatlantic liners.
In March 1940, the Queen Elizabeth joined her sister ship, Queen Mary, in New York. The newer ship was unfinished and less vulnerable in the United States. Both vessels would perform a vital service in carrying thousands of troops to far-flung battlefronts around the world.
Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth were the largest and fastest troopships involved in the war, often carrying as many as 15,000 men in a single voyage, and often travelling out of convoy and without escort.
With her record-breaking speed and size, the Queen Mary is retrofitted to serve as a troop ship during WWII. Dubbed, the “Grey Ghost,” the Queen Mary hauled as many as 15,000 men while playing a pivotal role in guiding the allied forces to victory.
Queen Mary had been launched in September 1934 and had served the Atlantic trade from 1936, when she set a speed record for the Atlantic crossing, until the outbreak of the war, when she was converted to troop-carrier duty.
26 kwi 2022 · W XIX wieku rozpoczęła się era transatlantyków o napędzie śrubowym. Statki te służyły do przewozu pasażerów, towarów, a nawet do transportu żołnierzy. Jednym z najsłynniejszych był RMS Queen Mary. Jak przebiegała jego służba w czasie pokoju i czym wsławił się podczas II wojny światowej?
1 maj 2022 · The Queen Mary was the fastest ship in the world between 1938 and 1952 and one of the finest ocean liners of the golden age of trans-Atlantic travel, also serving during the Second World...
