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| | RMS Queen Mary art print by artist James Flood (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) |
 | | Elegantly designed with a broad range of contemporary and classical artwork, yet more conventional than her predecessors, offering the comfort of stuffed chairs and cozy fireplaces, the Queen Mary appealed to the ordinary traveler as well as those preferring a first class passage. |
 | | A close pass to her sister ship, the Queen Elizabeth, became a mid-Atlantic ritual, when, weather permitting, the captains of both ships would intentionally steer within close proximity, saluting each other with three long blasts of their whistles. |
 | | As air travel increased, passengers on the giant steamship decreased, and the RMS Queen Mary was terminally removed from service in 1967, having transported more than two million passengers, 800,000 troops, and traveled over three million miles. |
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