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	Queen Mary - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mary of Hungary (1371-1395), queen regnant of Hungary, was the daughter of Louis I of Hungary and the wife of Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor.
		Mary of Guise (1515-1560), queen consort and regent of Scotland, was the daughter of Claude, Duke of Guise, second wife of James V of Scotland and the mother of Mary, Queen of Scots.
		Mary, Queen of Scots, (1542-1587), queen regnant of Scotland and queen consort of France, was the daughter of James V of Scotland, wife of FranÃ§ois II of France and the mother of James I of England.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Queen_Mary (446 words)

	HMS Queen Mary - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		HMS Queen Mary was a Royal Navy Lion -class battlecruiser, armed with eight 13.5 inch (343 mm) guns, displacing 27,000 tons, and capable of steaming at 28 knots (52 km/h).
		She was under the command of Captain Cecil.I. Prowse at the Battle of Jutland on 31 May 1916.
		She should not be confused with the ocean liner RMS Queen Mary, though both were named after Mary of Teck.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/HMS_Queen_Mary (304 words)

	RMS Queen Mary
		As her role was debated, Queen Mary languished for a time at her new York pier, painted a drab grey scheme, moored beside the French Line’s Normandie, still in peace time livery.
		To escape the bombs of Hitler’s Luftwaffe Queen Mary’s unfinished sistership Queen Elizabeth arrived in New York 7 March 1940, much to the amazement of the press and port authorities.
		Departing on her first voyage 5 May 1940, Queen Mary was part of a convoy responsible for transporting Australian troops from Sydney to Gourock -- her Scottish port during the war.
	members.aol.com /bry1976/qnmary/qm_war.html (1430 words)

	Ships of the World: An Historical Encyclopedia - - Queen Mary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Queen Mary 's speed made her one of the most popular ships afloat, and she earned handsome profits for her owners until the outbreak of World War II, which found her at New York.
		Queen Mary carried on average more than 15,000 troops eastbound, and in 1943 she embarked 16,683 soldiers and crew on one voyage, more than any other ship has ever carried.
		Queen Mary was released from military duty in 1946, and after refurbishment by her builders she left Southampton on her first peacetime crossing to New York on July 31, 1947.
	college.hmco.com /history/readerscomp/ships/html/sh_074100_queenmary.htm (891 words)

	Articles - RMS Queen Mary
		There was already a "Clyde steamer" named Queen Mary, so Cunard reached agreement with the owners that the existing steamer would be renamed TS Queen Mary II, and in 1934 the new liner was launched by Her Majesty as RMS Queen Mary.
		In August 1936 Queen Mary captured the Blue Riband from Normandie with an average speed of 30.14 knots (55.82 km/h).
		So, the Queen Mary left New York for Sydney, where she, along with several other liners, was converted into a troopship to carry Australian and New Zealand soldiers to the United Kingdom.
	www.free-biz.org /articles/RMS_Queen_Mary (828 words)

	Diving the Lutzow - Beyond the Blue Technical Diving Magazine
		HMS Invincible was among the first of the large battlecruisers, with eight 12-inch guns and displacing 20,000 tons, she had a top speed of 25 knots.
		Being a veteran of the 1914 Falklands battle HMS Invincible was well proven in long range confrontations, yet off Jutland Bank on 31 May 1916 she had been sunk with nearly all hands after a short salvo of German shells.
		HMS Queen Mary had a German shell penetrate her forward gun turret causing her main magazine to explode.
	beyondmagazine.co.uk /wreck/hlutzow.htm (2590 words)

	Battle of Jutland, the outcome (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		HMS Indefatigable has the dubious distinction of being the first battlecruiser ever to be sunk and the first ship to be lost at Jutland.
		HMS Warrior and her sisters were a considerable improvement on previous designs.
		Although Queen Mary had larger main guns, Lützow was the first German battlecruiser class to have 12in guns which were in superfiring pairs fore and aft, unlike the Queen Mary with her limited 'Q' turret.
	www.worldwar1.co.uk /outcome.html (1355 words)

	The Classic Liners of Long Ago - Queen Mary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		After this, the now-officially-named Queen Mary was moved to her fitting out pier, destined to be one of the greatest Cunard liners of all time.
		The Queen Mary was the only one of the grand superliners of the time to actually show a profit for her owners.
		Whenever the two Queens passed it was always a festive event, with the two ships blowing their whistles in salute to each other, and often passing as closely as possible as safety would allow (just for effect).
	ocean-liners.schuminweb.com /ships/queen-mary.asp (2011 words)

	Queen Mary
		Queen Mary I of England reigned as Queen of England for a short five years (r.1553-1558), the first reigning queen since the disputed Mathilda in the 12th...
		Mary I, daughter of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon, was born in 1516 and suffered through a...
		Mary Tudor, Mary I, or Bloody Mary as she was known to 17th Century Protestants,* was the eldest...
	www.marinercruises.ns.ca /?Category=Queen+Mary (1101 words)

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		Queen Mary returned on April 1943 and then berthed in New York in May. After this it began a takeing service for US troops which was to be its role for the remainder of the war which had been done before.
		The Queen Mary's journey to Long Beach was was turned into a cruise to recoup some of the costs of the voyage.
		The Queen Mary had a great fairwell when she arrvied in Long Beach she was surrond by lots of ships small big huge.
	www.rmsliners.com /queenmary.html (1841 words)

	elizabeth i and mary queen of scots
		The Tudors - Elizabeth I and Mary Queen of Scots
		… Mary, Queen of Scots, and the Earl of Bothwell.
		Mary, Queen of Scots and mother of James I, under whom the realms of England and Scotland were united, remains one...( Continue Reading)
	www.agawamhs.org /elizabeth-i-and-mary.html (509 words)

	Chris' Cunard Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Queen Mary returned in April 1943 and then berthed in New York in May. After this she began a ferry service for US troops which was to be its role for the remainder of the war.
		Queen Mary is now docked in Long Beach California as a floating hotel, a fitting retirement for one of the worlds greatest ships.
		The Queen Elizabeth remained berthed at New York until November 13 and then set sail for Singapore, where she was to be serviced and refurbished to commence duty as a troop transport.
	www.bluewatercapital.com.au /ccp/late-cunard.htm (5008 words)

	RMS Queen Mary, Long Beach, Ca.
		A floating city awash in elegance, the Queen Mary in Long Beach, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, remains one of the most famous ships in history.
		In addition, the Queen Mary is celebrating the five-year anniversary of Ghosts and Legends, the popular guided special-effects show that dramatizes actual paranormal and historic events that have been reported over years.
		As you descend to the lower decks of the Queen Mary, you hear a sound.
	www.queenmary.com (345 words)

	Kit Reviews
		HMS Dreadnought, Jackie Fisher's Revolutionary Battleship of 1906, Combrig 1:700 Scale - Admiral Jackie Fisher's dream battleship of 1906 was one of the most significant designs in the history of the capital ship.
		HMS Royal Sovereign, 1904 - When William White became the Director of Naval Construction (DNC) in 1885, the battleships of the Royal Navy were a haphazard assortment of oddities.
		HMS Furious, Aircraft Carrier 1918 - A carrier with an island in the middle of the flight deck.
	www.steelnavy.com /reviews.htm (9374 words)

	Queen Mary Investigation
		This investigation was carried out under the authority of the OKCGC and permission of the Queen Mary Trust.
		The RMS Queen Mary is a beautiful old ship that has been called one of the most actively haunted locations in the United States.
		RMS Queen Mary - Infamous Watertight Door Number 13 in Shaft Alley where John Peddler was crushed to death during a routine drill.
	www.researchwebcam.com /OKCGC/investigations/qm.html (745 words)

	♫ Queen Mary Long Beach ♫ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Queen Mary Long Beach Editorial Offers this salute to Long Beach, home of some of the world's most inspired architecture.
		Queen Mary - Special Events Services Permanently berthed in Long Beach is one of the largest passenger liners ever built, the HMS Queen Mary.
		Each year we bring together a mix of authentic Louisiana music, creole food and arts & craft vendors to the Queen Mary for a weekend of music, dancing and fun.
	www.musicfindz.com /directory/queen/queen-mary-long-beach.html (352 words)

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		The arrival of HMS Dreadnought intensified the arms race between Britain and Germany and led to the construction of two fleets of these huge leviathans.
		HMS Lion, with her sisters, HMS Queen Mary and HMS Princess Royal, were completed in 1912-3 and, at 700 feet long and 29,700 tons, were the largest warships thus far laid down.
		At Jutland, flying Admiral Beatty's flag, the Lion was heavily engaged with the High Seas Fleet and was lucky to survive; her sister, the Queen Mary, blew up with the loss of most of her crew.
	www.marcle.co.uk /lion.html (1123 words)

	RMS Queen Mary : Model Ship Museum Ocean Liners (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Queen Mary is a larger and more luxurious than Titanic.
		Although she required 1,174 officer and crew (860 for Titanic), Queen Mary accommodated only 1,957 passengers while this number of Titanic is 2,440.
		During wartime, Queen Mary carried a total of 765,429 military personnel, sailed a total of 569,429 miles.
	www.grandartdecor.com /modelship/products/ocean_liners/QM.htm (177 words)

	The Queen Mary Ghosts
		With over 11,000 allied troops on board at the time of the collision, the Queen Mary was forbidden to stop and help the poor sailors onboard the Curacoa, and 338 men lost their lives that fateful day in the cold waters of the North Atlantic.
		When the Queen Mary was dry-docked to repair her badly torn hull, the body of a sailor was subsequently found inside.
		After the renovations were completed and the Queen Mary's doors opened for business as a hotel, an escalator had been installed in the area where the watertight doors of Shaft Alley once stood.
	www.pastlifetimes.net /psychic_phone_readings_ghost_story_queen_mary_ghosts.htm (1120 words)

	The Dreadnought Project (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		If you already work creating models of ships in the period 1890-1920 and would like space on my site to post your work, or even if you are new to modeling, please contact me and we'll find a way to get you involved.
		The first ship model I started is HMS Dreadnought, a revolutionary ship built in 1906 for the Royal Navy.
		Though she did not spark the naval arms race between Britain and Germany, she came to define the naval epoch, lending her name to over 60 ships which were built in her pattern of big guns on a fast, sturdy vessel.
	www.dreadnoughtproject.org (818 words)

	QUEEN MARY: Maritime Matters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The QUEEN MARY is seen from the 3/4 stern perspective of a small boat on 20 January 1996 at Long Beach.
		In a good-natured tug-of-war with the more streamlined NORMANDIE, the MARY traded the coveted title for fastest crossing until 1938, when her peak average speed of 30.99 knots westbound and 31.69 knots eastbound was untouched until being shattered by the UNITED STATES in 1952.
		Joined by the 1940-built QUEEN ELIZABETH for trooping duties, the MARY and her near sister were even acknowledged by Winston Churchill for having shortened the war by safely and quickly transporting hundreds of thousands of troops to the battle theater.
	www.maritimematters.com /queen-mary-vintage.html (449 words)

	QUEEN MARY TEXT
		Armed with funds from tideland oil revenues, the then mayor of Long Beach and the fire marshal traveled to England and purchased the Queen Mary from the Cunard Line for a few million dollars.
		The Queen Mary acquisition was the first of a number of bold actions taken in realizing that goal.
		Under the leadership of Disney and others, The Queen Mary has prospered in a highly competitive market for over 30 years.
	www.trilogycreativegroup.com /id90.html (284 words)

	HMS NELSON BATTLESHIP (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		HMS DUKE OF YORK 1940 KING GEORGE V CLASS
		HMS EMPEROR OF INDIA 1913 IRON DUKE CLASS
		HMS KING GEORGE V 1939 KING GEORGE V CLASS
	www.homestead.com /nelson1/BRITISHBATTLESHIPS.html (77 words)

	Ships of the World: An Historical Encyclopedia - - Queen Elizabeth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Benefiting from careful, and in the case of Cunard rivals, clandestine observation of the other greyhounds of her era, the twin-funneled Queen Elizabeth was a top priority for her builders until shipyard facilities began to be turned over to military vessels in 1939.
		Between them, Queen Elizabeth and Queen Mary, the two largest passenger ships to survive the war, became the most profitable pair of ships ever put in service, even after the commissioning of the world's fastest ocean liner, United States, in 1952, and ten years later, CGT's France.
		She proved so successful that in 1965 she was given something of a reprieve when she was reconditioned and fitted out with a lido deck with outdoor swimming pool and air conditioning.
	college.hmco.com /history/readerscomp/ships/html/sh_073900_queenelizab1.htm (577 words)

	Queen Mary Shipwright
		Very soon 534 became the Queen Mary and was launched in September 1934, and although it was a rainy dreich [gray, dreary] day, thousands turned up on both banks of the Clyde to witness King George V and the Queen Mary carry out the ceremony.
		The Queen Mary left the fitting-out basin in 1936 for her maiden voyage and I never saw her again, except in newsreels and newspapers.
		And the Wrather Company, which had taken over the Queen Mary, was the Wrather Corporation of America and I saw in the paper a story which said that the lady who owned the Queen Mary was the wife of Jack Wrather and her name was Bonita Granville Wrather.
	home.compuall.net /~dianerush/Kean.html (3380 words)

	Queen Mary
		The Queen Mary sails majestically past the Statue of Liberty as she departs from New York, bound for Europe, early post war.
		In 1936 the Queen Mary, on her sixth voyage out, won the Blue Riband of the Atlantic from the French Line's Normandie by making the run from Bishop's Rock to Ambrose Lighthouse in 4 days, 27 minutes at a speed of 30.14 knots.
		1946, the Queen Mary arrived at Southampton from Halifax on her last trooping voyage, and a few days later was sent to John Brown's for reconversion to a passenger ship.
	www.naval-art.com /queen_mary.htm (882 words)

	Queen Mary model ship now in 2 different sizes:
		We offer two sizes of the Queen Mary model ship: 32" Queen Mary model and a 40" Queen Mary model.
		Our Queen Mary model ship is the perfect nautical gift.
		There is more on the history of the Queen Mary and on the details of our Queen Mary model ship 32” and the Queen Mary 40" on our site.
	www.handcraftedmodelships.com /queen_mary.php (81 words)

	Amateur Radio in Cuba
		The former Cunard Lines luxury ocean liner, HMS Queen Mary, permanently docked as a tourist attraction and hotel in Long Beach, California is the home of the famous Amateur Radio Station, W6RO.
		Another temporary operation took place in 1970 when the Queen Mary was moved from the shipyard where the conversion took place to the permanent berth she occupies today.
		They look exactly like the microphones used at radio stations and recording studios when the Queen Mary was in her heyday.
	www.wr6wr.com /newSite/articles/features/bobandjoe.html (526 words)

	Gallery Battleships
		HMS Prince of Wales 1941, Tamiya 1:350 Scale - When someone with the last name of Beatty and with the initial D in his name builds one of His Majesty's Ships, it is best to notice.
		HMS Agincourt - This time " The Gin Palace " is the subject of the work of Jim Baumann with his build of the 1:700 scale British battleship by Classic Warships.
		HMS Dreadnought, 1907 - This 1:350 scale model from Steel Navy / Rhino Models was built by Jim Baumann and won the gold at the 2000 UK IPMS Nationals.
	www.steelnavy.com /gallery_battleships.htm (6135 words)

	Global Exploration - Past Expeditions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		We steamed through the night and headed for HMS Invincible, which we found in the early hours of the morning.
		Steve shotted what he thought was part of HMS Invincible and we all shot down the line to be greeted with an incredible sight.
		We dived the Queen Mary 3 times, but we felt there was much more to be seen on her as we ended up in the same place twice.
	www.global-exploration.com /jutland.html (1308 words)

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