Category:IMO 5287952
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Ship[edit]
- Type: Passenger ship
- Ordered by: Williamson Buchanan
- Built by William Denny & Bros. Ltd., Dumbarton, Scotland
- Yard No: 1262
- Launched 30 March 1933
- Date of completion: May 1933
- Length: 263'
- LPP: 77.0 m
- Breadth: 10.7 m 35'
- Draught: 7'5”
- Gross tonnage: 1014
- Passengers: 1820
- Main Engine: William Denny & Bros. Ltd., Dumbarton Three steam turbines, direct drive. New boiler 1957
- Speed: 15 kts
History[edit]
- 30.03.1933 Named: QUEEN MARY by Lady Colquhoun, wife of Sir Ian Colquhoun of Luss for Williamson-Buchanan Steamers Ltd (J.Williamson), Glasgow Flag: United Kingdom
- 1935 Ownership of Williamson Buchanan fleet passed to the London Midland & Scottish Railway (LMS).
- 1935 Renamed QUEEN MARY II at the request of Cunard White Star Line, to release the name for the new liner QUEEN MARY building at John Brown’s Clydebank shipyard.
- 1936 Registered owner Williamson-Buchanan Ltd.
- 1948 Ownership passed to newly-nationalised British Railways, under the banner of their Caledonian Steam Packet Company.
- 1957 Reboilered and twin funnels replaced with one larger one.
- 1970 Sold to Scottish Transport Group
- 1973 Sold to Caledonian MacBrayne.
- 1976 Renamed: QUEEN MARY
- 1977 Withdrawn from service and sold for conversion to a moored restaurant ship on the Thames in Central London, with her twin funnels restored.
- 2009 Sold to French interests for use as a floating hotel at La Rochelle; towed to Tibury Dock, London
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