I think that basically Joe has his finger's in many pies and views the Queen Mary as a way of getting rich by any means. It would be more technical but I leave...
... Konrad, Good to hear from you. I agree with your assessment of the situation. I would love to know specific details of the "conduit financing", like where...
Today another one of the Queen Mary's people was taken from us. I received word from Clydebank, Scotland that Betty Kean passed away. Betty was the wife of...
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Bill Cwiklo
cyclops@...
Feb 3, 2002 7:32 pm
The article on the lifeboats is now up on the website. Bill...
Julian, Thank you for posting the new article on the Queen Mary's lifeboats. It was a special treat indeed to come back to my dorm room after class to see the...
Great article with some superb pictures. I think that it's incredible that something like the lifeboats which are 'on show' all the time are not looked after...
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Tracy
TL97@...
Feb 5, 2002 7:45 pm
Going just by memory, I believe the lifeboat demontration happens at 1:00pm and 3:00pm. I've seen it once and it was pretty good. The man was very nice. He got...
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Bill Cwiklo
cyclops@...
Feb 5, 2002 9:57 pm
I'm working on an article on the deck tennis courts presently. After WW2 the triple deck tennis courts on sports deck were re-assigned to third class - then...
Julian and Bill, Very fine work on the new life boats page. What if anything is going to be done to recreate the boats missing from stations 22 and 24? Also,...
The Lifeboat article on Julian's website is wonderful. The photos are spectacular. Good job, well done! There are only a few things I wanted to comment about...
... hahaha sounds like Ship's officer Roy Sorge. At the beginning of each day, depending upon how many ship's officers are aboard will depend on how many ...
... I believe I've read passenger information from 1st class saying that deck tennis was available... meaning that they probably shared with 2nd class. I cant...
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Bill Cwiklo
cyclops@...
Feb 7, 2002 3:53 pm
On the last cruise to LB two large motor boats were housed in the bow area that were picked up in South America to allow passengers to disembark at shallow...
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Bill Cwiklo
cyclops@...
Feb 7, 2002 3:56 pm
When I went aboard to take the photos and talk with Ron Smith, the lifeboat exhibit was not in place on Sun deck. Perhaps it is being revamped. I didn't...
... I decided to look again at photos of the Mary arriving Long Beach... I looked closely at the famous photo of her with a DC-9 flying overhead dropping ...
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Bill Cwiklo
cyclops@...
Feb 7, 2002 5:39 pm
Great photo sleuthing. Bill ... From: "Blue Ensign" <pignwhistle1936@...> To: <queenmary@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2002 9:08 AM ...
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Bill Cwiklo
cyclops@...
Feb 7, 2002 6:31 pm
Andrew, Do you have a photo of the boat with stations 9 and 10 used as you say? It would be useful to update the article. Do you know when this change ...
It seems from recent postings that there is more to add to the lifeboats article. Thank you to everyone who is contributing. I have noticed this image in my...
... Do you have any idea how these docking platforms worked, Andrew? I mean how did they disembark people from Sun Deck? I guess they must have been used in...
... I just got around to reading the new Lifeboat article - well done Bill and Julian - again! Bill, your penchant for detail never ceases to amaze Regarding...
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Bill Cwiklo
cyclops@...
Feb 10, 2002 7:52 pm
Tom W. Thanks for the complement. I suspect the extra life saving equipment might have helped during WW2, but it's lucky it was never needed. So boarding was...
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Don Schmidt
dschmidt@...
Feb 11, 2002 6:03 am
Hi fellow QM enthusiasts: Sorry I haven't posted in a while, but I've been too busy with trying to save La Jolla. I'd like to acknowledge the passing of...
... That boat looks as tho it is the imfamous lifeboat #25. I did some more photo-sluthing... If you look at Steele's book on page 217, there is a large ...
... These platforms I believe had pontoon floats and was lowered to the water. The collapsable stairs stored on the port and starboard side of R-Deck's...
... I have received Tom's photo of the Mary leaving Southampton and posted it at: http://194.238.189.22/mary1.jpg You can indeed see the loading-platform. The...
... Do you know of a picture of these? ... I thought this too, but it cannot be the case because of another photo I have now found from the last voyage. The...
... Ill try and find a good pic of it and scan it... however if you watch the movie, "Assault on the Queen" with Frank Sinatra, the ladder is used in the scene...
... Wasn't this movie filmed during her cruising days? I have it somewhere. I wonder if the platforms are in place on Sun Deck in the movie. ... Quite possibly...
