It's kind of amazing Queen Mary is still around today. There's obviously some problems right now, but considering it won't be too long before she reaches 100 years old, it's still impressive to me a ship as large and as old as her is still in relatively good shape for the time being.
This was a great video, there is just a truly amazing aura surrounding the QM and QE. Their grandeur, beautiful lines and history really make them a sight to behold. I'm in the midst of making a 3m long model of the QE, and seeing her in such a large physical scale makes you appreciate her even more..
I was just googling her yesterday. Shame she’s still in Limbo and closed down because of the pandemic. Hope she gets the repairs she desperately needs.
Yes!! I hope so. There's chipping paint and areas of the ship that are rotting, so you can't step on them. I really hope they can reinforce these places 🙏🏻
It's an uphill battle at this point, there were a lot of ugly things done to the ship in the name of tourism and cost-cutting. Including gutting most of the mechanical areas, cuts in structural supports, and the "propeller box" to mention a few.
I've been going to the Queen Mary Sunday brunches, in Long Beach, for 30 years. They are without doubt, the finest Sunday brunch in So. Cal. Afterwards, we'd always roam around this beautiful ship.
A grand lady indeed. If I said it before, then bear with me, but you did her justice in this 2-part film. I cannot say anything more. 👏 Even though people today unfortunately cannot tell any ship from Titanic ("UGH"), Mary's fame has not wavered in any way I think. She's become a film star, a popular hotel that still sees big names and events to this day, and may even become a full on tourist attraction if Long Island's Queen Mary Island project comes to fruition. However, the ship herself has seen better days. Millions of dollars are needed to fully repair her; otherwise she could very well sink and later be scrapped. A haunting thought, but ever the optimist and seeing just how far she's come over a near 100 year period, I'm sure she'll survive just as she always had. Long live the Queen. And now I go to finish cutting out the pages I printed for The Great Liners. A classic book of which I found a pdf online. You should get it if you don't have it already: it's a wonderful read. :)
Yes she is the most famouse ocean going linerof all time and one of the last of the old style liners. Letus hope City of Long Beach decide to keep her and do the long overdue repairs to her, or if not some other group of weather people buy her to bring her back to her former glory.
My parents took me to tour the Queen Mary in Long Beach (and the Spruce Goose). I didn't know anything about it when was 10. I'm glad to learn about her now. Thank you for these videos!
Hello. Very interested to watch your video. My father was aboard HMS Curaçao when The Queen Mary struck. Stoker Kenneth Clarkson was in the engine room and trapped but as the ship twisted and sank, he found a route out. Covered by a film of oil he was cast adrift in the freezing North Atlantic. Thankfully he was rescued by an Irish fishing vessel but not before he witnessed so many of his crew mates slip quietly into the depths. Every year l honour his fallen friends by placing painted rocks on memorials around Kent UK where he lived until an old man leaving 5 children and seven grand children. I loved him, he was my hero
@@TheGreatBigMove I was blessed to know him and call him 'dad' although he suffered from PTSD, he did his very best to support his family and love his wife. I think he did a good job under difficult circumstances. He died sometime ago when I was traveling in the US but my last words to him were " I love you dad" and I am thankful For that. Thank you for taking the time to reply x
Minor errosr as per the QM tour, The escort and the QM used synchronized clocks to zigzag, the clock on the escort malfunctioned and got out of sync eventually the escort cut in front of the QM due to the clock drift. DUring WWII the QM was used for meetings while in port in Britain since the tech of the time would have made it hard to bug the ship. The QM Gift shop was where the Decision to invade Normandy was Made. The QM did not get Back all of her furnishings after the war, it was updated. The Furnishings were in a warehouse and provided to Long Beach and used to equip the Hotel rooms.
My father was aboard the escort that the Queen Mary sank. Very difficult situation and kept on the down low on the news front as it was considered "friendly fire". Such a sad event and life changing for survivors x
Hope she gets the repairs she needs. I’ve been visiting her since I was a child and I even had my high school prom aboard her. I see her every day on my way to and from work. Love the history she has and the history she has made to Long Beach. Thank you for making these videos.
Degaussing neutralizes the magnetic signature of the ship. All steel-hulled ships are basically giant compass needles. Since it takes a few years to build a ship the size of RMS Queen Mary, the ship becomes magnetized from being stationary so long. There are also induced magnetic fields generated by moving through the earth's magnetic field. There are three main types of mine actuation: contact (think of the ones with the spiky things you see in the movies), acoustic (every ship has a sound profile), and magnetic (all steel ships have a magnetic field). There are ways to mitigate the risk of mine actuation. For contact mines, it's simple: try to avoid them. For acoustic mines, there are ways to make the ship quieter. For magnetic mines, degaussing is the proscribed means. I don't know if QM ever needed it, but sometimes, warships have to get "depermed" because the magnetic field becomes so permanent that even degaussing coils aren't able to work effectively. Deperming a ship requires a dry-docking and then giant cables are wrapped around the ship and they run current through the cable to demagnetize the ship. QM probably wasn't in troopship service long enough to require deperming, particularly because she was always underway. fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ship/weaps/degaussing.htm military.wikia.org/wiki/Deperming#:~:text=Deperming%2C%20or%20degaussing%2C%20is%20a,vessels%20and%20enemy%20marine%20mines.
My wife and I visited her a few years back on vacation, worth the price of admission, wandering her hallways is truly an experience since, at the time at least, the ship was still partially open as a hotel and it's amazing just how dark the ship is on the inside (vintage lighting) despite those being ostensibly rent-able rooms. The event venue is on the upper decks, and you could take the 'Ghost Tour' which *spoiler alert* includes a stop somewhere near the bow of the ship and has a mini special effects/water jets/strobe lights/random screams segment to commemorate the collision back in WWII. The Soviet submarine was also open to be toured, and let's just say if you're tall or don't flex very well don't bother going in. They give you hard hats for a reason!
I feel horrible when an ocean liner gets demoted to a cruise ship. Using an ocean liner as a cruise ship is like using a luxury sports car as a clown car.
When I was a kid my parents surprised me with a night's stay on board QM in Long Beach. I love that one of the greatest liners of all time still exists, and hope the SS United States will be restored some day so we can have 2 great liners to visit and remember as they were in their prime
I used to see the QM docked across from the old Pierpoint Landing on Pier F in Long Beach Harbor during the late-1960s. This was before it was turned into a tourist attraction. It was so eerie at night, since the entire thing was pitch black and deserted, but there was always one light on shining from one of her portholes. I was also there with my grandmother on the day she sailed to her current final resting place. We watched her sail in with hundreds of smaller boats around her, and then she very, very, very, slowly came to a stop. At one point, it seemed like she had stopped, but I noticed that one of the portholes was still moving slightly in relation to a pole along the shore. She blew her horn when she finally stopped. I feel so privileged to have seen, literally, the very last yard she ever sailed. I was also on board for a school field trip during the 1970s when a streaker (remember those?) ran naked from bow to stern. When he got to the stern, he dove off and was killed in the fall.
You know, I love learning about this ship, and even though I've been to Long Beach a lot over the course of my life, I don't think I've ever been aboard the Queen Mary. It's wierd because I've seen it a lot, and I even cruised out of the Carnival terminal that shares a dock with the Queen Mary, but I've just never been aboard. I should do that someday because it has a fantastic history.
Ive been twice! Once for a overnight stay, and a second time with my wife years later. It may well be my favorite place in California, maybe the country. The ship truly has a aura of energy to it and you can practically feel the history of the ship all around you as you walk her decks. She is a amazing piece of history, and I hope the city of Long Beach always takes care of her.
Growing up, I used to go every weekend. To this day I still visit it from time to time (Well, pre-covid anyways), and it never loses it's appeal. I can't even really explain or describe why it's such an amazing experience, I guess it tugs at both the history buff, the art deco fanatic, and the nautical enthusiast parts of me. If you can get a room on it, there's literally nothing that compares to a walk around the ship in the dead of night when no one's around, just immersing yourself in it. Plus, the bar is fantastic.
The great big move owner, i recently bought a book about proposed liners that never were built and came across a 5 funneled ship for NDL in 1905, this type of stuff would make good videos
I loved this. I’m 53 and frequently visited the queen Mary.I was just down there today for the third time in two months.I have somewhere a picture of me as a child In the 70’s sitting atop the nut for the propeller and was blown away when I found the massive threaded nut in a different location.it’s an interesting sight lately.kind of reminds me of Chernobyl.
I have lived near the L.A. River most all my life. I can tell you that the lore of the great ship has always been palpable, even 12 miles inland where I grew up in Paramount (home of the Frank Zamboni ice rink machine). The rumor was that the L.A. River "Turns into the ocean" and the Queen Mary is there!" I made my first pilgrimage at the age of 12 on my bicycle, not knowing the journey would never end. I came to work for a company contracted for semiannual services aboard her for about 5 years and married my wife just off site of her. Now I live walking distance from her and see her about once a week on my walks with my wife and 12-year-old daughter. I like asking my kid what the ship's name is just to see if she remembers. They haven't sounded her horn about 2 years now, I wonder why. The other day a younger man and his family stopped and took a look at her at sunset with all her lights on and said in Spanish to his daughter, "Ay sta la Reina Maria" which means "There's the Quean Mary". "Reina Maria" has a nice ring to it.
I had always wondered what the long line along the side of the QM in certain photos was. Thanks to your channel I now understand it was the degaussing coil. Cool!
So apparently there is going to be a three movie horror trilogy based on the Queen Mary. IDK if it will be good but it will definitely bring back some kind of publicity
I'm aware of the horror movie being made (and on a side note also the Netflix series called High Seas set aboard her), but I didn't know there was going to be a trilogy. Where'd you hear that?
It's cool how the QM's famous for being both one of the biggest and most beautiful liners during her time in service, but also for being a highly popular haunting site after retirement.
There was a video online of bizarre sounds recorded in the bow section of the QM's hull by a paranormal research team and it was featured on Unsolved Mysteries. Crashing, water pouring in and the sound of men screaming, reportedly of the doomed Curacao.
Imagine if more classic Ocean Liners were preserved as the Queen Mary as museums or hotels (Or maybe both!). I would be wonderful to see ships like the Olympic, Mauretania or Aquitania in person...
There were different types of mines. You had to hit a contact mine which was designed to float just below the water surface. A magnetic mine could lie on the seabed and was triggered by the ships magnetic field. No actual contact required. Degassing cancled the field resulting in the ship floating over these mines safely. Contact mines though were still a thing...
A lot of Areos of the Queen Mary are Laid out exactly like the olympic and titanic on purpose the second class entrance is configured identically and so are the prominade decks and the locations of some of the more luxurious areas.
There's been much written as of late on the Mary's dire straights in Long Beach. From the pandemic raging across the world leaving her closed for a year, to her lesse operator filing for bankruptcy, to the 200+ million dollar restoration needed to prevent her from deteriorating away, the ship is in dire need of support. I would urge anyone who loves the ship to pressure the city of Long Beach to preserve her, either by coughing up the money to restore her, or by drastically changing her operating model to be more like the Cumbres and Toltec with a nonprofit aiding in restoration and a for profit company handling the day to day operations of the ship. Towards the former, please look into Queen Mary International, since they are the closest to a non profit for the Mary in existance and (as far as I know) the only community group in talks with the city over fundraising and restoration of the old girl.
You missed a KEY EVENT of interest on the Queen Mary! The incident where she nearly capsized in WW2 after she was hit by a huge wave broadside and barely recovered!
You forgot to mention that, after the ship became a hotel / university, part of the ship would be transformed into a museum for visitors. They removed all the machinery, boilers and even the original chimneys to make room for a museum. But this whole area that was freed from the machinery never became a museum. In fact, if they left the original equipment, it would have been an excellent museum. They had to compensate for the weight removed with the addition of sand to compensate for the ballast. The 3 chimneys that exist today are replicas.
A phrase form a documentary particularely makes me happy and sad at the same time.. " she is now permanently moored at long beach california serving as a floating hotel; the sole survivor of the great pre war transatlantic liners"
Hi ! I thought you might like to know how the Queen Mary really got her name. She was supposed to have a name that ended in IA like the other Cunard liners. They were going to name her Queen Victoria. However , Cunard went to the king to rally their cause to get government funding . As the king was popular with parliament. They told the King they wanted to name the ship after Britain’s greatest Queen. To this the king replied without a bit of hesitation, “ My wife will be delighted.” There it is, true story.
This was a great pair of videos about the beautiful Queen Mary. One correction though. 13:02, I recall that it was a DC-9 that flew over the Queen. A flyover by a DC-3 had occured earlier during the Queen Mary's career and the Douglas Aircraft Company decided to commemorate that by flying over the Queen with a new at the time Douglas DC-9 when she was about to end her final voyage.
You said you didnt really know how degaussing coils work so here a crash course: they're a bunch of wire running along the length of the ship supplied with a adjustable electric current, they're basically a giant electromagnet. to understand how they protect ships you need to have a basic understanding of how magnetic mines work, they detonate when they detect a strong enough distortion of the background magnetic field. A large piece of metal will create a large distortion on the background magnetic field, by running the coils you're counter acting the magnetic field distortion created by the metal hull, the conter acting can be adjusted since the BG magnetic field varies based on latitude and down south its "completely inverted". TLDR: You counter act the distortion on the magnetic field created by the ship so the mines wont go kaboom and turn you into smithereens.
Nice videos. However it is a mystery to me why the Queen Elizabeth, the largest ship in the world for many years, and in no way inferior to the Queen Mary and a huge component of the War effort, is so rarely talked about these days. There was little to choose between them in speed but it is true she never held the Blue Ribband as the Cunard chairman asked that the two Queens not compete against each other. Probably her sad end compared to the Queen Mary' preservation has something to do with it.
Love this so much, it brought tears to my eyes. The story of Queen Mary and Olympic are my fav. So, I saw a video related with the current state of the Mary as an hotel in Cali. It looks like the company filed for bankrupt as many have done due to Covid. What is your opinion on this? Do you see a bright future for the Queen Mary?
Currently the operating company that runs the Queen Mary as a hotel has gone bankrupt, but I do not believe her continued existence is in danger because she is owned by the city of Long Beach, not the aforementioned company.
“She flew a 310ft pennant from her mast, 1ft for every 10 years in service”. That would then be 3ft surely if she sailed for 31 years?! Should it not be 10ft for every year? Other than that, a great video!
No worries, I’m just nitpicking. I enjoy the videos. Loads of info and presented well. Definitely worth listening to. Keep up the good work. 👍🏻 PS) Can you do a video on Titanic’s sister ship Britannic or the Bismarck?
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I think you ment to say: "ten feet for every year of service", as I don't think she served for 3,100 years.
As an ocean liner enthusiast, this channel is everything I wanted
Same!! Im an ocean liner enthusiast only if i think about ships and... i think about ships like alot
It's kind of amazing Queen Mary is still around today. There's obviously some problems right now, but considering it won't be too long before she reaches 100 years old, it's still impressive to me a ship as large and as old as her is still in relatively good shape for the time being.
Amazing that this gallant old lady has been from the earliest of the Great Depression, through the Second World War, and is still around today!
This was a great video, there is just a truly amazing aura surrounding the QM and QE. Their grandeur, beautiful lines and history really make them a sight to behold. I'm in the midst of making a 3m long model of the QE, and seeing her in such a large physical scale makes you appreciate her even more..
Very nice! Good luck with that.
@@TheGreatBigMove thanks a lot!
@Nagi Sankar well first it’s symphony not shythom, and you would rather go on a floating bathttub/hotel then a old amazing ocean liner?
And this folks is what I call a high quality video.
100% agree
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Can't wait! This channel might be the one with the most quality per video on TH-cam!
I was just googling her yesterday. Shame she’s still in Limbo and closed down because of the pandemic. Hope she gets the repairs she desperately needs.
Yes!! I hope so. There's chipping paint and areas of the ship that are rotting, so you can't step on them. I really hope they can reinforce these places 🙏🏻
The City of Long Beach has let her fail....................one UGLY ship
It's an uphill battle at this point, there were a lot of ugly things done to the ship in the name of tourism and cost-cutting. Including gutting most of the mechanical areas, cuts in structural supports, and the "propeller box" to mention a few.
@@emilye.8779 The City of Long Beach will do nothing
@@SovietDictator they were required to remove the engines as part of their purchase agreement.
I've been going to the Queen Mary Sunday brunches, in Long Beach, for 30 years. They are without doubt, the finest Sunday brunch in So. Cal. Afterwards, we'd always roam around this beautiful ship.
Love that ship, my uncle was a “greaser” on the QM’s final years at sea.
Reminder Set!!!!
A grand lady indeed. If I said it before, then bear with me, but you did her justice in this 2-part film. I cannot say anything more. 👏
Even though people today unfortunately cannot tell any ship from Titanic ("UGH"), Mary's fame has not wavered in any way I think. She's become a film star, a popular hotel that still sees big names and events to this day, and may even become a full on tourist attraction if Long Island's Queen Mary Island project comes to fruition. However, the ship herself has seen better days. Millions of dollars are needed to fully repair her; otherwise she could very well sink and later be scrapped. A haunting thought, but ever the optimist and seeing just how far she's come over a near 100 year period, I'm sure she'll survive just as she always had. Long live the Queen.
And now I go to finish cutting out the pages I printed for The Great Liners. A classic book of which I found a pdf online. You should get it if you don't have it already: it's a wonderful read. :)
I would LOVE to get my hands on that PDF if at all possible, please?
I love going to Long Beach to visit her. I've been 4 times already. She is truly an irreplaceable treasure.
Yes she is the most famouse ocean going linerof all time and one of the last of the old style liners. Letus hope City of Long Beach decide to keep her and do the long overdue repairs to her, or if not some other group of weather people buy her to bring her back to her former glory.
''Getting there is half the fun.''
~ Cunard line.
My parents took me to tour the Queen Mary in Long Beach (and the Spruce Goose). I didn't know anything about it when was 10. I'm glad to learn about her now. Thank you for these videos!
Hello. Very interested to watch your video. My father was aboard HMS Curaçao when The Queen Mary struck. Stoker Kenneth Clarkson was in the engine room and trapped but as the ship twisted and sank, he found a route out. Covered by a film of oil he was cast adrift in the freezing North Atlantic. Thankfully he was rescued by an Irish fishing vessel but not before he witnessed so many of his crew mates slip quietly into the depths.
Every year l honour his fallen friends by placing painted rocks on memorials around Kent UK where he lived until an old man leaving 5 children and seven grand children.
I loved him, he was my hero
Thank you for sharing, Beau. It is sad to hear that he was onboard and lost many of his crew mates.
@@TheGreatBigMove I was blessed to know him and call him 'dad' although he suffered from PTSD, he did his very best to support his family and love his wife. I think he did a good job under difficult circumstances. He died sometime ago when I was traveling in the US but my last words to him were " I love you dad" and I am thankful For that.
Thank you for taking the time to reply x
Minor errosr as per the QM tour, The escort and the QM used synchronized clocks to zigzag, the clock on the escort malfunctioned and got out of sync eventually the escort cut in front of the QM due to the clock drift. DUring WWII the QM was used for meetings while in port in Britain since the tech of the time would have made it hard to bug the ship. The QM Gift shop was where the Decision to invade Normandy was Made. The QM did not get Back all of her furnishings after the war, it was updated. The Furnishings were in a warehouse and provided to Long Beach and used to equip the Hotel rooms.
My father was aboard the escort that the Queen Mary sank. Very difficult situation and kept on the down low on the news front as it was considered "friendly fire". Such a sad event and life changing for survivors x
Hope she gets the repairs she needs. I’ve been visiting her since I was a child and I even had my high school prom aboard her. I see her every day on my way to and from work. Love the history she has and the history she has made to Long Beach. Thank you for making these videos.
I love the Queen Mary. I'm glad I got the opportunity to be aboard her even if at Long Beach. What incredible history.
Degaussing neutralizes the magnetic signature of the ship. All steel-hulled ships are basically giant compass needles. Since it takes a few years to build a ship the size of RMS Queen Mary, the ship becomes magnetized from being stationary so long. There are also induced magnetic fields generated by moving through the earth's magnetic field. There are three main types of mine actuation: contact (think of the ones with the spiky things you see in the movies), acoustic (every ship has a sound profile), and magnetic (all steel ships have a magnetic field).
There are ways to mitigate the risk of mine actuation. For contact mines, it's simple: try to avoid them. For acoustic mines, there are ways to make the ship quieter. For magnetic mines, degaussing is the proscribed means.
I don't know if QM ever needed it, but sometimes, warships have to get "depermed" because the magnetic field becomes so permanent that even degaussing coils aren't able to work effectively. Deperming a ship requires a dry-docking and then giant cables are wrapped around the ship and they run current through the cable to demagnetize the ship. QM probably wasn't in troopship service long enough to require deperming, particularly because she was always underway.
fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ship/weaps/degaussing.htm
military.wikia.org/wiki/Deperming#:~:text=Deperming%2C%20or%20degaussing%2C%20is%20a,vessels%20and%20enemy%20marine%20mines.
Good information, thanks for sharing.
An excellent video about the “Grand Old Lady,” thank you!
My wife and I visited her a few years back on vacation, worth the price of admission, wandering her hallways is truly an experience since, at the time at least, the ship was still partially open as a hotel and it's amazing just how dark the ship is on the inside (vintage lighting) despite those being ostensibly rent-able rooms. The event venue is on the upper decks, and you could take the 'Ghost Tour' which *spoiler alert* includes a stop somewhere near the bow of the ship and has a mini special effects/water jets/strobe lights/random screams segment to commemorate the collision back in WWII.
The Soviet submarine was also open to be toured, and let's just say if you're tall or don't flex very well don't bother going in. They give you hard hats for a reason!
I feel horrible when an ocean liner gets demoted to a cruise ship. Using an ocean liner as a cruise ship is like using a luxury sports car as a clown car.
Better than it getting scrapped
@@EternalModerate good point
When I was a kid my parents surprised me with a night's stay on board QM in Long Beach. I love that one of the greatest liners of all time still exists, and hope the SS United States will be restored some day so we can have 2 great liners to visit and remember as they were in their prime
Shoot I missed this. Excellent video! Queen Mary is one of my favorite passenger ships.
Very good documentary. Thanks so much for a fine production effort.
I never knew the Queen Mary came to my county. Hello from Singapore!
So excited for this one!!
I used to see the QM docked across from the old Pierpoint Landing on Pier F in Long Beach Harbor during the late-1960s. This was before it was turned into a tourist attraction. It was so eerie at night, since the entire thing was pitch black and deserted, but there was always one light on shining from one of her portholes. I was also there with my grandmother on the day she sailed to her current final resting place. We watched her sail in with hundreds of smaller boats around her, and then she very, very, very, slowly came to a stop. At one point, it seemed like she had stopped, but I noticed that one of the portholes was still moving slightly in relation to a pole along the shore. She blew her horn when she finally stopped. I feel so privileged to have seen, literally, the very last yard she ever sailed. I was also on board for a school field trip during the 1970s when a streaker (remember those?) ran naked from bow to stern. When he got to the stern, he dove off and was killed in the fall.
Was the streaker incident in Long Beach?
@@AverageGamerJoe1 Yes, the same location as now.
You know, I love learning about this ship, and even though I've been to Long Beach a lot over the course of my life, I don't think I've ever been aboard the Queen Mary. It's wierd because I've seen it a lot, and I even cruised out of the Carnival terminal that shares a dock with the Queen Mary, but I've just never been aboard. I should do that someday because it has a fantastic history.
Ive been twice! Once for a overnight stay, and a second time with my wife years later. It may well be my favorite place in California, maybe the country. The ship truly has a aura of energy to it and you can practically feel the history of the ship all around you as you walk her decks. She is a amazing piece of history, and I hope the city of Long Beach always takes care of her.
Growing up, I used to go every weekend. To this day I still visit it from time to time (Well, pre-covid anyways), and it never loses it's appeal. I can't even really explain or describe why it's such an amazing experience, I guess it tugs at both the history buff, the art deco fanatic, and the nautical enthusiast parts of me.
If you can get a room on it, there's literally nothing that compares to a walk around the ship in the dead of night when no one's around, just immersing yourself in it. Plus, the bar is fantastic.
would be nice if you did a video on the last remaining ocean liners, Cheers for your content
I always felt a sense of emotion while watching the great big move’s vide
Nice! Cannot wait for the premiere!
I lived in Long Beach and went on a tour I wished I could have sailed on her!
The great big move owner, i recently bought a book about proposed liners that never were built and came across a 5 funneled ship for NDL in 1905, this type of stuff would make good videos
Let me guess: is that the 4 day liner?
@@Kaidhicksii it's actually a 5 day liner
Great Eastern was 5 funnel which is cool
That sounds like a fascinating book! I'd love to know the title.
I loved this. I’m 53 and frequently visited the queen Mary.I was just down there today for the third time in two months.I have somewhere a picture of me as a child In the 70’s sitting atop the nut for the propeller and was blown away when I found the massive threaded nut in a different location.it’s an interesting sight lately.kind of reminds me of Chernobyl.
I have lived near the L.A. River most all my life. I can tell you that the lore of the great ship has always been palpable, even 12 miles inland where I grew up in Paramount (home of the Frank Zamboni ice rink machine). The rumor was that the L.A. River "Turns into the ocean" and the Queen Mary is there!" I made my first pilgrimage at the age of 12 on my bicycle, not knowing the journey would never end. I came to work for a company contracted for semiannual services aboard her for about 5 years and married my wife just off site of her. Now I live walking distance from her and see her about once a week on my walks with my wife and 12-year-old daughter. I like asking my kid what the ship's name is just to see if she remembers. They haven't sounded her horn about 2 years now, I wonder why. The other day a younger man and his family stopped and took a look at her at sunset with all her lights on and said in Spanish to his daughter, "Ay sta la Reina Maria" which means "There's the Quean Mary". "Reina Maria" has a nice ring to it.
Fantastic video as always. I am so grateful we still have this amazing ship with us today, and it is my dream to visit her one day :D
It's worth the money, I live about 20 minutes away and have spent a small fortune over the years on tours.
I had always wondered what the long line along the side of the QM in certain photos was. Thanks to your channel I now understand it was the degaussing coil. Cool!
Its so sad that she retired so so she was a beloved ship to travel on
Yay it’s out, I know it’s only been a bit since the last one but it felt like years I’m so pumped!
I hope you enjoy it!
I really love this video!!!
So apparently there is going to be a three movie horror trilogy based on the Queen Mary. IDK if it will be good but it will definitely bring back some kind of publicity
Yes sir General Top Hat sir!
I'm aware of the horror movie being made (and on a side note also the Netflix series called High Seas set aboard her), but I didn't know there was going to be a trilogy. Where'd you hear that?
I've been on this ship before, really need to tell u the interior is beautiful and amazing
i love this channel
It's cool how the QM's famous for being both one of the biggest and most beautiful liners during her time in service, but also for being a highly popular haunting site after retirement.
I read the other day that they will be making a series of movies about the Queen Mary.
Maybe some movies could help raise money to help with repairs......
Details, please.
It will be surprising if The two Queen Mary’s meet eachother By the way your channel is great for transportation and history
There was a video online of bizarre sounds recorded in the bow section of the QM's hull by a paranormal research team and it was featured on Unsolved Mysteries. Crashing, water pouring in and the sound of men screaming, reportedly of the doomed Curacao.
Imagine if more classic Ocean Liners were preserved as the Queen Mary as museums or hotels (Or maybe both!). I would be wonderful to see ships like the Olympic, Mauretania or Aquitania in person...
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An excellent source for Queen Mary is Sir James Bissets third volume of his autobiography "Commodore". He commanded the QM for much of the war.
Im excited for this video lov history and stuff :D
The finest ocean going linerof all time.
There were different types of mines. You had to hit a contact mine which was designed to float just below the water surface. A magnetic mine could lie on the seabed and was triggered by the ships magnetic field. No actual contact required. Degassing cancled the field resulting in the ship floating over these mines safely. Contact mines though were still a thing...
A lot of Areos of the Queen Mary are Laid out exactly like the olympic and titanic on purpose the second class entrance is configured identically and so are the prominade decks and the locations of some of the more luxurious areas.
What are your thoughts on the 1970 Poseidon Adventure.
SPLENDID VIDEO.
“Unwanted contaminates or critters” love that line!
There's been much written as of late on the Mary's dire straights in Long Beach. From the pandemic raging across the world leaving her closed for a year, to her lesse operator filing for bankruptcy, to the 200+ million dollar restoration needed to prevent her from deteriorating away, the ship is in dire need of support. I would urge anyone who loves the ship to pressure the city of Long Beach to preserve her, either by coughing up the money to restore her, or by drastically changing her operating model to be more like the Cumbres and Toltec with a nonprofit aiding in restoration and a for profit company handling the day to day operations of the ship. Towards the former, please look into Queen Mary International, since they are the closest to a non profit for the Mary in existance and (as far as I know) the only community group in talks with the city over fundraising and restoration of the old girl.
You missed a KEY EVENT of interest on the Queen Mary! The incident where she nearly capsized in WW2 after she was hit by a huge wave broadside and barely recovered!
I know about ocean liners I was on Canberra for our journey down south in 1982
You forgot to mention that, after the ship became a hotel / university, part of the ship would be transformed into a museum for visitors. They removed all the machinery, boilers and even the original chimneys to make room for a museum. But this whole area that was freed from the machinery never became a museum. In fact, if they left the original equipment, it would have been an excellent museum. They had to compensate for the weight removed with the addition of sand to compensate for the ballast. The 3 chimneys that exist today are replicas.
A phrase form a documentary particularely makes me happy and sad at the same time.. " she is now permanently moored at long beach california serving as a floating hotel; the sole survivor of the great pre war transatlantic liners"
Please make the premier sooner
Could you do a video on what a ship's carpenter dose.
Good suggestion! I'll look into it.
@@TheGreatBigMove Can u make a video on ss America?
310ft pendant, 1ft for every 10 years in service?
I doubt she was sailing for over 3 millenia; maybe it was 10ft for every 1 year in service?
Do a Rival video between all companies Hamburg America, Cunard, & white star Etc.
You NEED to do a video on Normandie.
Can’t wait
Hi ! I thought you might like to know how the Queen Mary really got her name. She was supposed to have a name that ended in IA like the other Cunard liners. They were going to name her Queen Victoria. However , Cunard went to the king to rally their cause to get government funding . As the king was popular with parliament. They told the King they wanted to name the ship after Britain’s greatest Queen. To this the king replied without a bit of hesitation, “ My wife will be delighted.” There it is, true story.
I recently bought a postcard of Queen Mary doing war bride services still in her grey ghost paint scheme
Any chance of a video reflecting her life now in long beach?
Can you please do a video on the bridge staff in a Ocean liner.
I have a video on the watch system in which I emphasize the officers available on Patreon if you're interested. More to come, though.
@@TheGreatBigMove Cool thank you.
WOOO IM EXCITED... I really wanna know how it got through ww2
Same here
speed.
Can you do one on tss maxnmun?
My Mother saw The QM, QE and Normnadie together in NY as a child.
Can you do the life/sinking of the Britannic?
can you make a video about queen mary comptmot 13
I think it's pronounced Ku-ra-sow not Ku-ra-kaw
I wonder if you can do a video on QE2 next or work on the airship series again
Yes another qm vid
Oh about time.
This was a great pair of videos about the beautiful Queen Mary.
One correction though. 13:02, I recall that it was a DC-9 that flew over the Queen.
A flyover by a DC-3 had occured earlier during the Queen Mary's career and the Douglas Aircraft Company decided to commemorate that by flying over the Queen with a new at the time Douglas DC-9 when she was about to end her final voyage.
Could be true. I'll have to go back to my research notes and figure out where I got that from.
You said you didnt really know how degaussing coils work so here a crash course:
they're a bunch of wire running along the length of the ship supplied with a adjustable electric current, they're basically a giant electromagnet. to understand how they protect ships you need to have a basic understanding of how magnetic mines work, they detonate when they detect a strong enough distortion of the background magnetic field. A large piece of metal will create a large distortion on the background magnetic field, by running the coils you're counter acting the magnetic field distortion created by the metal hull, the conter acting can be adjusted since the BG magnetic field varies based on latitude and down south its "completely inverted". TLDR: You counter act the distortion on the magnetic field created by the ship so the mines wont go kaboom and turn you into smithereens.
Great now we need either the Breman or Normandie
Ile de France is up next
Nice videos. However it is a mystery to me why the Queen Elizabeth, the largest ship in the world for many years, and in no way inferior to the Queen Mary and a huge component of the War effort, is so rarely talked about these days. There was little to choose between them in speed but it is true she never held the Blue Ribband as the Cunard chairman asked that the two Queens not compete against each other.
Probably her sad end compared to the Queen Mary' preservation has something to do with it.
Love this so much, it brought tears to my eyes. The story of Queen Mary and Olympic are my fav. So, I saw a video related with the current state of the Mary as an hotel in Cali. It looks like the company filed for bankrupt as many have done due to Covid. What is your opinion on this? Do you see a bright future for the Queen Mary?
could you do a video on the SS Rotterdam from 1959?
Do one on Windjammers
Can you do a video on the interception of the SS Rex? Or a video on the Rex in general?
Currently the operating company that runs the Queen Mary as a hotel has gone bankrupt, but I do not believe her continued existence is in danger because she is owned by the city of Long Beach, not the aforementioned company.
“She flew a 310ft pennant from her mast, 1ft for every 10 years in service”. That would then be 3ft surely if she sailed for 31 years?! Should it not be 10ft for every year? Other than that, a great video!
Yeah, just a typo. I go on autopilot when I'm doing the voiceovers sometimes.
No worries, I’m just nitpicking. I enjoy the videos. Loads of info and presented well. Definitely worth listening to. Keep up the good work. 👍🏻
PS) Can you do a video on Titanic’s sister ship Britannic or the Bismarck?
@@johnpaterson503 I'll definitely be doing one on Britannic at some point. Not sure about Bismarck, though. Maybe.
Love that photo 7:09
hey uh could you do the ship story on the queen elizabeth its ok if you dont want to
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i wanna go to Queen Mary, she's a gorgeous ship!
Good luck. As it currently stands, she might not reopen.
My great granda sailed on her to America for flight training
I stayed on her overnight about 10 years ago on a family vacation. Very fun and unique experience.
Was Mauretania 2 be a running-mate with it's royal sisters?
1:34 did you mean 10 feet for every year in service?
Yes
@@TheGreatBigMove thanks great videos!!
11:36 dont you mean 10 feet for every year in service