Cruise Ship Model Queen Mary
Queen Mary - Cunard White Star LineQueen Mary HistoryThe British shipping industry had always been part of the absolute top in the world. Ever since the dawn of modern time had the British merchant ships - and the warships - been a pattern for the rest of the world to follow. Queen Mary LegendThe legend surrounding her name is well known. Cunard ships' names customarily ended in -ia, and it was widely reported that Cunard sought King George V's permission to name its greatest ship after "England's greatest Queen"—meaning, presumably, Queen Victoria. The King, the story continues, replied that his wife would be greatly honored, and so hull "534" became the Queen Mary. Queen Mary ConstructionThe Queen Mary was a modern ship, but not as ultra-modern as the TSS Normandie. If the Normandie had entered service after the Queen Mary, the Queen would possibly have been talked about as the most beautiful liner ever built - inside and out. Every critic compared the ship with the Normandie. The British combination of traditionalism and modernity was considered too sterile by the some critics of the 1930s. But whatever said, the Queen Mary was a beautiful ship - inside and out. Her interiors had over fifty different woods, collected from all over the British Empire. |