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CUNARD LINE Steamship R.M.S. QUEEN MARY Artist C.E. TURNER Postcard
Queen Mary is a retired British ocean liner that sailed primarily on the North Atlantic Ocean from 1936 to 1967 for the Cunard Line and was built by John Brown & Company in Clydebank, Scotland. Queen Mary was built as part of Cunard's planned two-ship weekly express service between Southampton, Cherbourg and New York. Queen Mary sailed on her maiden voyage on 27 May 1936 and won the Blue Riband that August; she lost the title to SS Normandie in 1937 and recaptured it in 1938, holding it until 1952, when it was taken by the new SS United States. With the outbreak of World War II, she was converted into a troopship and ferried Allied soldiers during the conflict. On one voyage in 1943, she carried over 16,600 people, the still-standing record for the most people on a vessel. Following the war, Queen Mary was refitted for passenger service and commenced the transatlantic passenger service for which she was initially built. By the mid-1960s, Queen Mary was ageing and was operating at a loss. Queen Mary was officially retired from service in 1967. She left Southampton for the last time on 31 October 1967 and sailed to the port of Long Beach, California, where she was permanently moored. The City of Long Beach bought the ship to serve as a tourist attraction featuring restaurants, a museum and a hotel.
Charles Eddowes Turner was born in Lancaster on the 14 September 1883. He was based in Liverpool and specialised in landscape and marine views. Proficient in watercolours and oils, Turner exhibited at the Royal Academy in London as well as Manchester and Liverpool. Turner fought in both the First and Second World Wars, as a captain in the Fleet Air Arm, combining active service with service as a war artist, signing his work C.E. Turner. Inter-war Turner had developed series of illustrations for Thomas Forman and Cunard, becoming a ‘series of excellent postcards’. He died on April 14 1965. Many of his oil and watercolour paintings of the two World Wars are preserved in the collection of the National Maritime Museum, London, and at the IWM, London.
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