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Telegram...

From an article in the Times Daily on August 5, 1937: NEW YORK, Aug. 5 – Days when autograph hounds narrowed their field of endeavour [sic] to theater and movie openings are all over…the new stamping grounds are the transatlantic boat piers where they can collar celebrities coming and going. And being persistent birds, they are crowding the companionways, thus blocking the passage of the star…

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Stowaway Away

On August 4, 1955, Richard David Martin of Cleveland, Ohio, was returned to the RMS Queen Mary after jumping overboard about half a mile from Southampton and swimming ashore a mile up the River Itchen. Police found Martin resting on a park bench in Southampton, wet and covered in oil and mud. He informed them that he had stowed away on the Queen Mary in New York and that he had gone undetected…

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A Roaring Arrival

From the article “14,690 RETURN ON QUEEN MARY” in the The Spokesman-Review on August 3, 1945: Huge Transport Leads Flotilla Into N. Y. Harbor. Up before the bugler, 14,698 soldiers returning from Europe on the one-time luxury liner Queen Mary roared a pre-dawn greeting to their native land…New York harbor responded with a cry of “Welcome home!” Her gray sides blending with the harbor mist,…

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A Reason to Celebrate

From The Norwalk Hour of Norwalk, CT, on August 2, 1945: PFC LEONARD PALMER WAS ON QUEEN MARY ____ The verteran 87th Chemical Mortar Division, made up mostly of New England and Pennsylvania soldiers, was the first fighting unit off the Queen Mary today. Sgt. James O’Brien, of Waterbury, Conn., said that the men in the battalion were ready on their arrival to celebrate doubly–for their return…

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King of Swing On Board

From The Milwaukee Sentinel on August 1, 1938: Benny Goodman, after two weeks’ absence from the airlanes, returns from his European jaunt to conduct the “Swing School” over WISN and a CBS network Tuesday. The king of swing found a new contract awaiting him when the Queen Mary docked.

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A Real Boy Scout

On July 31, 1939, Boy Scout chief, Dr. James E. West, arrived in England aboard the RMS Queen Mary. He was on his way to the 10th International Scout Conference in Edinburgh, Scotland. He is shown here being greeted by boy scouts after leaving the ship.

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Among The Hoi Polloi

On July 30, 1936, Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt, mother of twelve year old heiress Gloria Laura Vanderbilt, sailed for Europe aboard the RMS Queen Mary with her sister, Lady Furness. They are pictured above the previous year as they arrived home after a month in the country. Also on board: The Earl and Countess of Lincoln, Sir Malcolm and Lady Perks; Mrs. Lewis Cass Ledyard Jr., Kaye Don, racing…

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Another One Crosses the Bar

On July 29, 1951, A.J. Lee, a trimmer aboard the RMS Queen Mary, was lost overboard. Source: Queen Mary Isolation Ward exhibit

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Close Call!

Headline from the Los Angeles Times on July 28, 1976: Proposal to Scrap Queen Mary Fails Long Beach Council Decides to Buy Out Lessees’ Interests

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She's Back...

From the Eugene Register-Guard on July 27, 1947: The Queen Mary to Sail As Luxury Liner Once More AP Newsfeatures SOUTHAMPTON, England – The Queen Mary – “lovely lady,” the sailors call her – is being restored to her pre-war elegance as a luxury liner after a distinguished war-time career and will resume her weekly runs across the Atlantic Ocean July 31. Along a deck where thousands of…

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Deluxe Accommodations

On July 26, 1933, the largest dry dock in the world at the time opened in Southampton to accommodate the RMS Queen Mary – then projected to be a 73,000-ton liner. King George V, for whom it was named, would do the honors of opening the giant berth. Source: New York Times

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The Final Bid

From the Spokane Daily Chronicle, Spokane, Washington, on July 25, 1967: Interest High in Queen Mary London (AP) – Sixteen firm cash bids for the 81,237-ton liner Queen Mary will be considered Wednesday at a board meeting of the Cunard Steamship line in London.   The deadline for bids expired at midnight Monday. The final one, four hours before deadline, was from Long Beach, Calif., to use the…

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Portrait of the Artist

On July 24, 1947, Lady Hilton Young (Kathleen, Lady Scott), died in London. A scultpor of portrait busts and figures, she created the plaque of Her Majesty Queen Mary, which was hung at the head of the main cabin class (1st class) staircase of the RMS Queen Mary. Lady Young studied in Paris under Auguste Rodin before marrying Captain Scott of the Antarctic and then later, Sir Edward Hilton Young…

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Motoring Across the Pond

On July 23, 1936, the Junior Car Club of Great Britain departed for the United States aboard the RMS Queen Mary. Its 85 members would drive 35 cars–including Rolls Royces, Bentleys, Humbers, Wolselys, Talbots, and English-built Ford V8s–1,500 miles across America and Canada, in a rally that would end up in Montreal. The itinerary included prolonged stops in New York, Washington, D.C., and…

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Cold Beets, Stewed Apricots, Bread...

From a Queen Mary Shipwalk Tour exhibit, a veteran’s memories of July 22, 1944:

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Bon Voyage

On July 21, 1955, Richard Burton and first wife, Sybil Williams, left England aboard the RMS Queen Mary. Burton’s picture, The Rains of Ranchipur, in which he starred alongside Lana Turner would be released in the coming fall. The couple is shown here catching the Queen Mary boat train at Waterloo Station.

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Star Crossing

On July 20, 1938, Sylvia Sidney sailed aboard the RMS Queen Mary for a month’s vacation in Europe. Upon her return to the States, she would begin filming, …One Third of a Nation…, in Astoria, New York, for Paramount Studios. Source: New York Times