Queen Mary - Chris Frame's Cunard Page: Cunard Line History, Facts, News

Fact Slap 👋 Today in 1967, the Cunard Liner RMS QUEEN MARY departs from Southampton for the very last time and the last time she would ever be in British waters. She is bound for California and a permanent berth in Long Beach as a floating hotel at a cost of £1.2million which was more than a Japanese Scrap Yard. Making the trip are 1,093 passengers and 806 crew for the voyage around Cape Horn and up the Pacific coast. As she departs, she is played away from the jetty by The Band of the Royal Ma

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An animation we created of the Queen Mary's second class Swimming Pool, seen here as it looked during the maiden voyage in 1936. A stunning art deco room with walls faced with cream and mother-of-pearl terrazzo slabs in silveroid frames and columns faced with slabs of blue smaltino in sliveroid frames. Both ends of the room featured three illuminated art glass panels with scenes of marine life underwater and a clock at one end by artist Cameron Baillie. The pool remained in original condition un