TheQueen Elizabethwas steered by a gyro compass. There were three radar units one with a range of fifty miles, another with ten mile range and another for aircraft detection. The main engines of the ship generated about 200,000 horsepower equal to about 50 locomotives (in 1945). There were...
On 7 August 1945, theQueen Elizabethleft Gourock for Southampton and arrived on the 20 August 1945. CommodoreSir James Gordon Partridge Bissettook over command of theQueen Elizabethwhen Captain Fall retired. Thirty four years earlier, Sir James had been the Second Officer on theCarpathiawhen she ...
1968: The Queen Elizabeth 2 launched by the Cunard line replaces the 83,673-ton Queen Elizabeth launched in 1940. The new 66,850-ton passenger liner is 963 feet in length overall, carries nearly 3,000 people including crew, and has four swimming pools, 13 decks, 24 elevators, and a 53...