Tour of Queen Mary
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- Опубліковано 9 лют 2010
- Cruising Authority Host, Barry Vaudrin tours the Queen Mary in Long Beach and points out some interesting features about this famous and legendary ship. Queen Mary is currently a hotel, museum and convention facility. It's worth a visit and it is particularly worth staying over night a few nights to fully absorb the rich history of this former trans-Atlantic ocean liner. Also visit cruising authority
I was a member of the ships company. In 1951 and return as boys we were the radar operators in bad visibility particularly when we were crossing from Cherbourg to Southampton.
The guy mentions the creaking, well in bad weather she would roll her guts out and the woodwork would literally shriek at you. The Queen Mary was a 'Happy ship' her Captain when I seved aboard her was "Harry Gatteridge" who docked the ship n New York during the Tug Boat strike.
hey your not annoying your just happy to have the privilege to be on such an awesome ship. when i was little me and my mom would come here every saturday and just roam around the ship. awesome vid to i wish i could go back soon.
Thanks for sharing this amazing piece of 20th century history Barry. Good job.
Thanks Barry for the video, I worked aboard the Historic Lady from 1989-2019 (30 years), I've seen the deterioration of the ship over the years, so hopefully they can bring her up to par to be toured again.
HI BARRY thanks for showing us around the greatest ship! we need to save her from sinking or the junk yard I stayed on her 3 times it was fun but the last time in 2019 it was boring very high prices food tours not included with the room stay . Nothing going on you needed to walk around to do something. When they get her fixed up they need to have evening dancing a morning brunch great tours and more. I am very shocked those are not the true stacks I wish I did not know about that and the life boats. Thank you, Barry for the tour LA. CA.
If only the RMS Olympic was turned into a hotel.
Ian Burpee Yes, it would have been great to see the Olympic as a museum ship, however; in 1935 there were several groups of people that were trying to make Olympic into a floating hotel, but it was determined to simply be too costly, to operate as a static vessel.
+Barry Vaudrin Actually, you can get close. In the north of England in the beautiful town of Alnwick (pronounced Annick), there is a hotel, whose owner in the 30's bought the firt class lounge (panneling, lights, plasterwork, leaded lights, fireplace, the lot) and built a special extension to his hotel to make this into a dining room. I've eaten there and it is wonderful.
That would be awesome if they did that it was really close to the titanic
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Not exactly the same.
To the City of Long Beach California.
Thank you so much for saving this great ship.
In the UK we cut up most of our other historic ships 50 years ago and converted them into bean cans.
Thank you Barry for this excellent video about the Queen Mary.
I am enjoying watching all your videos and learning lots of information about these great ships I didn't know.
Me everytime when the guy's inhaling.
"Come'on, you can do it!"
Wow! This is quite a production! This looks so professional. Your really doing a great job!
Because of you Barry, I slapped the hull last time I was here
it would have been wonderful if they had did this to r.m.s Olympic also,sadly the scraped it 😔😔😭😢
Yea.
The Olympic was already scrapped.
Great Barry - I love the Mary - worked on her as a tour guide back in the 80's
Been on her a few times.Will always stay aboard when I’m in So. Cal.
Love that ship!
A wonderful ship like the Queen Mary deserved a different end of the scrap, a spectacular video and an excellent work, a more than deserved homage. Thank you so much for sharing.
Very well done video.
My dad's experienced what it's like to make an atlantic crossing on the queen mary. He worked on the ship. That's why I came to see your video. :-)
Like your enthusiasm.
this is probably one of the best videos of her good job
merci barry pour cette promenade sur ce beau bateau...bon reportage!
thank you barry for the visit on this boat..good work!
fabien from france.
Great tour of the Queen Mary Barry!
She looked better 12 years ago then today, but at least she’s getting work done to her, and she deserves it
Wow I learned something new I did not know at the hallways were originally titled not carpeted great video
What A Beautiful Ocean liner....
I went there for the catalina boat. Queen mary was huge!
It's the good old ships like the Queen Mary that make proud to be British. :)
A fantastic review and video. Your knowledge is superb, and I thoroughly enjoyed all 3 of your review type videos. Great work!
QM was retired in 1968 and sold to Long Beach as a hotel, museum and convention center.
67.
Shame it wasn’t featured in Disney’s amphibia
Very interesting 🇬🇧
I think you did a nice job buddy! Disregard the haters.
I have homework I might sound like a hater but I need to get good grade
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I like this small detail in the video but I like how he used the Poseidon theme in the begining because it played that part. :D
Enjoyed the video and commentary, Barry, always enjoy the little known history you post! Say hello to Terri and Jacob for me and hope to see you all again at family reunion this summer in South Dakota.
I've been on the Queen Mary many times, you said some stuff in here I did not know. Informative vid! Good job, I liked it!
Very interesting, thanks you.
I’m planning on seeing her this December!
at a little before 8:04 when we talk about the banana shape a lot of boats are banana shaped still look VERY closely at canoes and some kayaks (not sit on tops) and you will kind of see that.
I stayed on this for a week in 2013. Quite cool
She has a worthy successor in the Queen Mary 2
Thanks for uploading, I found some intersting facts.
I also see alot of similarities to the older ocean liners, like the Olympic-class by White Star Line, (The brigde construction, expansion joints, rivets and so on.)
5/5
I liked your speaking very much u made me like QM even more as I discovered it 2 days ago!
Take care of your health!
Hey! Great Video Mate! I am not actually into Ocean Liners, but you did it so well!
If you haven’t noticed it, the queen Mary’s current funnels are actually aluminum replicas. The original funnels on the other hand were removed and scrapped.
Amazing video
@VMAdventures of the 22 lifeboats onboard the ship, 17 of them are original. None of the them are fiberglass "copies", the ones that you saw aboard were from other Cunard liners. Those boats occupy stations #4, #7, #16, #19, and #23. At least three of them came from the Cunarder SYLVANIA in August 1967. Rumor has it that Disney planned to make fiberglass copies for all the boats, but that never came about.
Very interesting vid. I've been on the QM I don't know how many times and never knew about the lifeboats, or the funnels. All liners of the day tho' had docking wings, although I didn't know that the bulkheads (on the docking wings) were shaped to make the wind less of a problem.
cool!
great job, very interesting
eeelmane Thanks I appreciate that!
It's funny how you can see the satellite dish near the funnels on minute 6:00. I bet it wasn't there back in the day. =)
baby.... I have stayed on the Queen Mary twice in the past 6 months.... both times on A deck... once on port side and once on starboard side.... for several days at a time.. if you are going to film this amazing piece of history, stay on the vessel.... for a prolonged peroid of time.. you would be surprised how how much more you will ACTUALLY learn... including those alleged ghost sightings and apparitions.. you can touch any bit of burlwood paneling aboard her and FEEL the history
Lusitania, Aquitania, Mauretania and almost all trans-Atlantic Cunard liner's had them. The Modern ones dont have them because they have Satalite Navigation to alert them of any obstructions, but back then it was all done by eye sight.
it doesnt look that big in pics and on tv, but that suker IS HUGE MAN. and the BEST THING EVER.
my grandmother's first cousin was captain of this ship where is it docked now I hear its a hotel now
Long Beach california
Shame that the queen Mary wasn’t featured in Disney’s amphibia
I Was There Yesterday
good for my report
Why did they removed the boilers -.- Its like remove the lungs from the ship.
The new owners of the Queen Mary wanted to use the space in the boiler rooms for a museum but it never happened.
The reason the QM was brought by Long Beach was to have a “museum of the seas” which would be in the old machinery spaces. However issues with funding and other things left those areas empty. You can find more info here: www.sterling.rmplc.co.uk/history/hisindex.html
In the Long Beach years section.
I have been on the QM many times. She is a beautiful lady. What is funny that in many TV shows and movies involving cruise ships, many of the scenes are filmed on the ship in Long Beach.
Just so you know, the sag or "banana" shape that the Queen Mary is in is called "sheer". :)
Yes
The correct and technical description is Funnel.
According to John Maxtone-Graham, Queen Mary had no sister ship. Queen Elizabeth was a ship designed independently and differently from Queen Mary. Also, to correct 99hockeynhi, SS Normandie was not a "RMS" because there was/is no Royal Mail in France.
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My Uncle was one of the 1st on her when she arrived in Long Beach; he worked for Pac Bell, and was there to install ship to shore hard wired phones - He told me that all the crew had mostly left and the ship was a mess; all the beds unmade and the dinning rooms were cluttered with dirty dishes - many of the crew were drunk, and were walking about with whiskey bottles.
Informative
Thanks for the info. :)
I worked with someone that was a dining room steward aboard this ship.
This is a massive ship when I was there it stood out taller than any building in the area and it’s length stretched over a 1000 ft and when I was entering the hotel it was just towering over me
Thanks.
its ok i learned alot about the queen mary from u
Wow!!!!(=☺☺😮😮😮💟💟👍👍
Good tour (;
Modern ships are too ugly for me. We need to bring this style back.
+Nathan Viebranz google Queen Mary 2
+urmo345 I already know what it looks like
+Nathan Viebranz queen marry 2 is one beautiful looking ship
Not saying it looks bad, but it's one good looking one out of a bunch of ugly ones.
I have to agree. Edwardian Era ships look so much better to me.
Maniac Noah, yes i know it's called sheer, I try to stay away from technical jargon because most people don't know what sheer is. Thanks for watching my videos!
I went to the queen mary on my 8th birthday 7 years ago
QE2 probably will never operate at sea again, high maintenance, fuel guzzler, doesn't meet many current solas requirements, she's not as efficient to operate as the new ships today are. As a hotel ship museum that would be great but she was not built for that and the few hotel ship out there today struggle to make a profit.
Barry Vaudrin
i subbed
THIS IS SPECIAL AND IT WAS A HAUNTED
02:03 I thought the telegraph make a ringing sound when the handles are moved?
I'm on the queen right now!
The original funnels were removed so they could dig out all the boilers and machinery in the bowels of the ship. The plan was to put the original funnels back, but when they were removed and set on the ground they collapsed due to the fact that they had rotted and rusted through and were nearly held together by the many layers of paint.
Great video Barry, thanks for uploading!
Confused with the pronunciation of turbines though! Turbans are what you wear lol
+Geraint Lewis
Both pronunciations are used interchangeably, it's sort of like tomato and "tomahtoe" or Missouri and "Mizzourah".
Mary deserves to be at home in Southampton
@MrRocknRoll12321 it's the same reason they removed the funnels, a guy stepped in one and his foot went through it because it was so rotten
I noticed that you used the opening theme song from The Poseidon Adventure (1972)
I found queen Mary on Google Earth
cool what about SS Nomadic
I found SS Nomadic too
Oh cool blog it
Wow You Know Also About Queen Mary
The hand railings are actually "Bakerlite" and not just standard "Plastic" as we know it
Sorry to be so annoying, but I did loose 100 pounds after this video was shot. I feel a lot better. I am planning to produce new programing on the Queen Mary and the Queen Mary 2.
The railing was not plastic but Bakelite - the term "plastic" was not used till the 1950's Bakelite, rarely used in general consumer products today, due to the cost and complexity of production and their brittle nature.
Did the Queen Mary ever sank does the Queen Mary still go to places?
Dominic Subryan nope it never sunk but it did snap a smaller boat in half. And she is permanently docked and is now a museum and hotel. I love her lol
Sadly it wasn’t featured in Disney’s amphibia
The ss Poseidon 1972 looks like the rms queen mary
I'm surprised when he moved the handle on the Telegraph it didn't ring like it would have back in the day.
You're right but most non-ship-buffs wouldn't know this. It was unique compared to Queen Elizabeth and many other Cunard liners.
I think the Queen Mary should get back on the sea together with the ss United states(When she is renovated)
Hi
I know that Queen Mary was used in making the 1972 Poseidon Adventure. Does the Queen Mary still have those vertical service shafts on board like the survivors climbed after the galley flooded? Also are they accessed through watertight doors and pipes? I have some 1930s deck plans of the QM but don't think they're detailed enough to show such pipes.
Also is the upside down stair case they climbed after leaving the burning galley where it actually is on the real ship?
The Poseidon Adventure movie only used the image of Queen Mary's exterior and some deck shots, but the interiors were fictional, based on what an ocean liner might look like. Queen Mary certainly had stairs throughout the ship, many water tight doors and pipes, and dumb waiters. In crew areas there were exposed pipes, the same is true for cruise ships today.
Imagine when he pushed it the ship just started going
You cant,engines are dead no fire in the engines so it wouldn’t start
Some ships did, some ships didn't. It really depended on the grandeur of the ship in question.
Does the queen Mary have one of those little huts in the bridge like the titanic had??
One thing I know about this ship is that it's HAUNTED.
one of the room is haunted
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No such thing as ghosts
@@TheNoobtuberr spirits not ghosts
I wish the Olympic was a hotel beside the queen Mary so we could get to expierience what the titanic was like
Is the funnel thing true? Where did you hear that?
wow i LOVE cruses 2 and ocean liners so id like to make a show to and be as obsest as u and imma ship freak