More bad news for the Queen Mary

[Onomea]

Your lucky. Wish I would of had the experience.

Her sister ship, the SS United States, is still awaiting a mission in Philadelphia, 53 years after being taken out of service.

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There's an excellent book about the SS United States that I read a few years ago:



About the book: Man & His Ship Americas Greatest Naval Architect & His Quest to Build the S S United States: Steven Ujifusa: Trade Paperback: 9781451645095: Powell's Books

About the ship: SS United States - Wikipedia

 

[bigwheelzip]

There's an excellent book about the SS United States that I read a few years ago:

Yes. Haven't read the book, but very familiar with the back story of that amazing renaissance man and the main project/love of his life.
My FIL worked for him at Gibbs & Cox, and I had a stint there after Gibbs's passing.


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[Digger2]

The SS America was my ocean liner. Crossed from NYC to Bremerhaven in 1958 at the age of six. Back to NYC in 1960 for home leave. A magnifient ship:



Hard times after the passenger jet age. She foundered in the Canaries in 1994 after a checkered coupla decades:



Nothing left now, from what I read, other than a debris field and a low tide view of a partial hull.

Memories.

Ah, The Australis. That was one of a bunch of ships that Chandris Lines bought for the Immigrant trade to Australia, along with the Britanis and Amerikanis. I worked on that line as a photog in 1974

 

[Rustyt1953]

Cruise ships then and cruise ships now.

Engineers rule.

 

[bummer]

Aboard the qm 1947

Notice anything about this photo? No PJ's, shorts, holey shirts or flip flops, my how times have changed

 

[Onomea]

Notice anything about this photo? No PJ's, shorts, holey shirts or flip flops, my how times have changed

Still true in 1958:



That dapper young man in the forefront is me. (I look a little worse for wear these days...)

 

[G-Mac]

I am told that my maternal grandfather, William Little, was a supervisor/shipfitter in the shipyard in Scotland where the Queen Mary was built. He helped build the Queen Mary. I had hoped to someday visit her.

 

[Tom S.]

Cruise ships then and cruise ships now.

$$$$$$$ rule.

FIFY!