UNUSED OLD POSTCARD CUNARD RMS QUEEN ELIZABETH

UNUSED OLD POSTCARD CUNARD
RMS QUEEN ELIZABETH
GOOD CONDITION

CUNARD RMS QUEEN ELIZABETH

RMS Queen Elizabeth was an ocean liner which sailed
the Atlantic Ocean for the Cunard Line
(then the Cunard White Star Line) and was contracted
to carry Royal Mail. At the time of construction in
the 1930s by John Brown and Company in Clydebank,
Scotland, she was known as Hull 552. Named in honour
of Queen Elizabeth (who was Queen Consort at the time
of her launch in 1938),she was the largest passenger
liner ever built — a record that was not exceeded for
fifty-six years. She was a slightly larger ship with
an improved design over her running mate, the Queen Mary.
She first entered service as a troopship in the
Second World War, and it was not until later that
she served in her intended role as an ocean liner
until her retirement in 1968. Together with the
Queen Mary, the Queen Elizabeth maintained a
two-ship weekly transatlantic service from
Southampton to Cherbourg to New York for over
twenty years. Following a fire, she was scrapped
in Hong Kong in 1975.

On the day the RMS Queen Mary sailed on her maiden
voyage Cunard's chairman Sir Percy Bates informed
his ship architects that it was time to start designing
the Mary's sister ship which unlike the Queen Mary whose
name was kept secret this new vessel was to be called
the Queen Elizabeth.

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