RMS Queen Mary
Nov 17, 2021
2 minutes
Jack Watkins
POIGNANT black-and-white British Pathé footage shows RMS approaching the port of Southampton on her final voyage as a transatlantic passenger liner in 1967. Streamers fly as crowds line the quay, their cheers momentarily silenced by the deafening blast of the ship’s horn. She dwarfs the tugs escorting her in. This ‘triumph of British engineering’, as the commentator describes her, mightier than and fast with it, had made
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