Queen Mary Scottish festival

[Jock Scot]

It's a really, really, really big boat

Here's a great capsule history video, starting with the construction, then maiden voyage, WWII service, and at 10:10 its final voyage, to Long Beach California:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcTvdWa8xh0

At 10:38 you can see modern footage showing its present appearance.

If I got the dates right, its maiden voyage was in 1936 and final one in 1967, meaning it only sailed 31 years.

It's been docked in Long Beach for 52 years!

It's an amazing floating Art Deco museum. The carpets, curtains, light fixtures etc are works of art.

Boat! BOAT!!!!!!

Crikey OCR! You could be upsetting every nautical type in the world!

Just so you know she is a ship! To quote my father who was nautical type, "you can put boats on ships, but you can't put ships on boats! If we are talking about submarines then they are boats."

[Macman]

Boat! BOAT!!!!!!

I wasn't going to say anything, and I'm glad I didn't because you did it so well, Jock! OC Richard is usually so bang on the money!

[OC Richard]

After reading the Aubrey-Maturin series I'd come to view a "ship" as having three masts with square sails

I do wonder what those early 19th century sailors would have thought of the monstrous boats of today...

[Blupiper]

A howling bagpipe may explain some Scottish ghost stories

And some piping competitor's nightmares.


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