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Published: 2012-08-04 19:40:07 +0000 UTC; Views: 3969; Favourites: 38; Downloads: 171
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Ah, to be on this ship in its heyday, still a marvel of British Engineering but now lies gutted in a small rockpool on the side of the mouth of Long Beach Harbor. Still, I'd be happier on her than on the Carnival Inspiration, at least the Cunard Queen's got more class.Gonna make this huge so you can see all the delicious details on her.
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Such a beautiful vessel, so very different to the blocks of flats afloat today.
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Even the current Cunard MS Queen Victoria and Elizabeth?
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Yep, although of the pair the QV looks marginally better than the QE, unfortunately they are all clones of those Vista class, the concept of individuality has gone down the pipes since Carnival started to foist their idea of what a ship should look like onto the cruising public. I am an old school ship buff, I prefer my ships to look like ships and not like flats with pointy ends.
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Agreed to be quite honest, looking at the flat side of a Carnival Hull (and believe me, I've been on the Carnival Inspiration for a cruise) makes me imagine how a ship as flat as an iron would float. At least the RMS QM2 looks better, right?
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QM2 is a difficult one, I am not really a fan of her, she could have looked very much nicer, she is too much ofย a hodge podge of design that from some angles she looks really ugly. However, she is an impressive ship, and she does have her moments. I have seen her on numerous occasions and there is usually one or 2 angles that will make me admire her. There are a few nice looking modern ships out there though, but most have lost the curves and sweeping decks and cascading aft decks that really were the hallmark of a cruise ship. My current personal favs are Oriana and Aurora, but they are midway through their lives so they are now regarded as classics 
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Very beautiful indeed and the target of a plethora of angry history buffs.
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Who rage against the fact it's not the Titanic, yet it did portray the Titanic in one film
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No not that. It's more or less the 40 plus years bad decisions and neglect the ship got from its lease operators and the city of long beach.
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Ah, I see. I wish I could see her run again, too bad her boilers were lost
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Wouldn't we all. 
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Oh blast and damned, Cunard could have used her like Union pacific uses 844 and 3895
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Well, its sort of complicated. As part of the sales agreement with the City of Long Beach, the Queen Mary had to be made unseaworthy, thus the controversial 5+ year conversion in the late 60's and early 70's.
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I would correct you, but Cunard did own White Star at the time. However, Queen Mary was built exclusively for the Cunard Line, while the RMS Olympic was the only White Star ship left after the merger
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What? Okay, no. Just No.
The Queen Mary and the Queen Elizabeth was built for the Cunard White Star. She has quite a lot of White Star features in her, such as a forward well deck and extended promenade. Both Massive White Star features. The merger of the two lines was a symbiotic relationship. On Cunard built ships, the Cunard flag would fly above the White Star flag, vice verse on ex White Star liners. However after the war, the White Star aspect was pretty much dropped.
As for Olympic's disposition, she and Mauritania where both broken up around the same time as the merger. They where broken up in order to obtain funds to built the Mary. Other White Star liners survived the merger and lived on to serve in the second world war. Such as the Georgic, the Britannic(II), the Laurentic, and the Calgaric.
Hope that clears up a few misconceptions.
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Thanks Eddie, I learned not to listen to myself while intoxicated after this. It did clear up some misconceptions I had about Cunard and White Star's merger, if it did exist.
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" I learned not to listen to myself while intoxicated after this."
wut?
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I sometimes get naturally "baked" and begin babbling incoherant thoughts at random, I have no idea why
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O.o you might want to get that checked out.
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And get ritalin'd? No thank you.
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Not all classic Ocean Liners look like titanic
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I know, but the Birtannic and Olympia were the twin sisters of the titanic
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She certainly looks lovely.......needs a touch up on paint though.
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You mean to be on this ship in its heyday, in first class.
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Right in the bridge or down in the piston and turbine room!
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Seeing those massive A-frame reciprocating engines pump up and down, powering the turbines that spin huge axles connected to the massive brass quad-propellers... technology porn right there
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