How did Churchill cross Atlantic in December 1941?

[bushmaster1313]

U-Boats were a real menace.

How did Churchill cross Atlantic to meet with Roosevelt and return?

 

[JohnK]

Great question, I want to know also.

Cross Atlantic flights were risky back then, and surely he wasn't exposed to U-boats.

 

[UncleEd]

Battleship HMS Duke of York

 

[THE PILGRIM]

So what ship did FDR travel on?
It was one of his 'Maine' ships.

 

[Toyman]

Roosevelt travelled on the battleship IOWA

 

[brick]

I don't think Roosevelt was on the USS IOWA. It wasn't commissioned until February 1943.

 

[Bkreutz]

Heavy Cruiser USS Augusta (he didn't have any oceans to cross)

 

[Salty RI]

Did he swim.

 

[bushmaster1313]

I was asking about the clandestine meeting in December 1941 shortly after Pearl Harbor.

 

[Toyman]

You are correct the IOWA on time The IOWA has a bath tub for Roosevelt's trips to Cairo and Tehran.

 

[THE PILGRIM]

I was asking about the clandestine meeting in December 1941 shortly after Pearl Harbor.

You mean this one: The First Washington Conference, also called Arcadia.
Churchill traveled on the battleship HMS Duke of York , departed Clyde, Scotland to the Chesapeake Bay, MD.

 

[bettis1]

In these days of atomic power and midair refueling where non stop round the world travel is common, we often forget things were very different only one or two generations ago.

In late January, 1945, President Roosevelt left Washington on the heavy cruiser, USS Quincy. Eleven days and almost 5000 miles later he arrived in Malta on March 2 (this date, 70 years earlier). From there he (on the Quincy) and Churchill (on the HMS Orion) continued on to the Yalta conference where they met with Stalin to determine the fate of post war Europe.

Today, that would be an overnight trip for Air Force One.

Another interesting tidbit about that meeting in Yalta, in the Crimea; I understand that it was Stalin's first and only flight. It was a rough one where he was sick and "white knuckled" the entire flight. I believe that he never flew again.

Bob

 

[JeffNW]

U-Boats were a real menace.

How did Churchill cross Atlantic to meet with Roosevelt and return?

How?(having read a few biographies of this great man, depending on the time of day it was-certainly not very early morning)he was probably soused.

 

[LVSteve]

Battleship HMS Duke of York

Nope, HMS Prince of Wales. Duke of York was the same class of battleship but was not commissioned until a few days after the Atlantic Charter conference.

 

[roarindan]

In late January, 1945, President Roosevelt left Washington on the heavy cruiser, USS Quincy. Eleven days and almost 5000 miles later he arrived in Malta on March 2 (this date, 70 years earlier). From there he (on the Quincy) and Churchill (on the HMS Orion) continued on to the Yalta conference where they met with Stalin to determine the fate of post war Europe.

If he left in "late January,,, and sailed for 11 days," why did he not get there 'til March 2nd??

 

[THE PILGRIM]

Nope, HMS Prince of Wales. Duke of York was the same class of battleship but was not commissioned until a few days after the Atlantic Charter conference.

In mid-December 1941, Duke of York embarked Prime Minister Winston Churchill for a trip to the United States to confer with President Franklin D. Roosevelt. She arrived at Annapolis, Maryland, on 22 December 1941, made a shakedown cruise to Bermuda in January 1942, and departed for Scapa Flow on 17 January with Churchill returning home by air instead of on Duke of York.

 

[GaryS]

He floated on a cloud of cigar smoke.

Or he sailed on the Duke of Earl.

Something like that.

 

[bettis1]

roarindan,

I slipped in an extra month. Roosevelt arrived in Malta on February 2, 1945.

Bob

 

[Kinman]

How much Vermouth did Churchill like in his Martini?

 

[jag312]

Stalin was afraid of flying? He was also afraid of horses.