queen mary

[mercman]

any one just watched bbc1 about the business man trying to buy queen mary and taking her over to southampton?

What do you lot think? I think it would be a good idea but the cost would be horrific!!

 

[byron]

No way, the vessel is unseaworthy the engines are shot and cannot even be towed here. The bottom plates have rusted almost through and she would founder in the first heavy swell.

 

[mercman]

my thoughts too. that what i meant about the costs being stupid. All the repairs etc needed to get it here.
Would the government chip in....i doubt it...lottery grant maybe but it would hardly touch the amount needed.....southampton city council maybe ....ABP may help with the berth but still at a cost
so how long before the investors see pay back....years and years...

 

[Andrew_Fanner]

HMG would only fund it if she went Oop North, say Liverpool or maybe Glasgow...

Not totally inappropriate being port of registry and birthplace.

 

[pjs100]

" HMG would only fund it if she went Oop North

Chance would be a fine thing. We've given you christianity, Alan Shearer, coal, railways, ship building, cannon fodder, Foot & Mouth, Peter Mandelson and Sting but I wouldn't wish to inflict the latter on anybody. I think that you will shortly be receiving our H2O. This will be the real thing not the recycled stuff.
Why do we want another old queen? I think you've confused us with Brownland ?
JJTOP

 

[Lakesailor]

"she's my friend,
I think I'll go see her again"

Title?

 

[Major Catastrophe]

The engines have all but been removed. They were vandalised as part of the contract with Cunard so that she could not be used in competition and then later, more was removed.

I have stood in engine room and there are some very big gaps where parts of the engines and boilers once sat.

She also has huge hole over Port screw where the cut a viewing tank, so that you can see the screw.

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Looking back at the Queen Mary's conversion in 1968-1971, virtually all of the power train was removed including all of her massive boilers, both turbo-generator rooms and one of the two engine rooms. If they did not destroy this early twentieth century engineering, she could have been a major tourist attraction, but instead it was all riped out for a failed "Living Sea museum". This stupid action caused the Queen Mary of mobility, power self sufficiency, and made her very seriously top heavy, despite the addition of 3,000,000 lbs of drilling mud added as ballast. Seaworthiness was further compromised by the removal of bulkheads on lower deck and breaching all water tight compartments on the lower decks. The structural was compromised by the removal of half of C deck to add more headroom in the lower deck museum areas and on the upper decks many of the rooms like both gymnasia, all barber shops and beauty parlor facilities, the second class swimming pool on F deck were removed. Those public rooms that were kept have been stripped to the walls for use as catering ballrooms. Two of the three main dining rooms were kept but later destroyed in the 1980's, to make room for a staff cafeteria and storage for the main kitchens, they gutted the second class dining room where Churchill ate with the officers during WW2.

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They also (the septics) pulled out most of the cabins and had a really big bonfire on the dockside.

Basically, much of it is a mess, but I have stayed in one of the staterooms, which was nice, especially as they didn't charge me the $400 bill because Prince Michael of Kent was also on board and they forgot to actually put my name on the computer booking system as having taken over my stateroom, so they gave it to me free.

 

[pjs100]

Which one?