Queen Mary, RMS

RMS Queen Mary is a Cunard White Star ocean liner built by John Brown & Co on the Clyde, with her maiden Southampton-to-New York voyage in May 1936; she won the Blue Riband for the fastest Atlantic crossing in 1936 and again in 1938. In the Second World War she served as a troopship, ’the Grey Ghost’, carrying up to about 15,000 troops per voyage. Retired in 1967, she has been moored at Long Beach, California, as a hotel and museum ship since 1971.