Word: cunarder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Named after Britain's Queen Mother, the Cunard Line's 83,000-ton Queen Elizabeth was the world's largest and most luxurious passenger liner when she was christened in 1938. The Elizabeth was designed as part of a transatlantic team with the Queen Mary, but her maiden voyage to New York was delayed by the outbreak of World War II. The Elizabeth performed heroically as a troopship, carrying as many as 15,000 jampacked G.I.s on a single voyage. After the war, the elegantly refurbished liner became the last word in gracious living afloat, traveling...
...like banana peels? The Sway of the Grand Saloon is huge, solid, stately, absurdly lavish, its noble dust jacket encrusted with gilt. Its whorled endpapers are the work of Niebelungian trolls who never see the sun. Its paper, far from being recycled, might be made by the supplier of Cunard table linen...
Brinnin's crossing sometimes seems too leisurely. But with his last paragraph, the author succeeds finally in pinning the romance of it all to the page. The Cunard Line's Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth are to be sold and turned into dockside catchpennies. But for one last time, on the Great Circle route between Liverpool and New York, they approach each other and pass in the night. A few middle-aged ship lovers on the Elizabeth think sentimental thoughts as they watch the Mary rush by, while necking teen-agers snicker. "As the darkness closes over...
After jet planes drained the profits from its once lucrative transatlantic passenger trade, Britain's Cunard Steam-Ship Co. sold the money-losing Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth to American investors, who hoped to make a royal killing by converting the ships into dockside attractions. From the beginning, the new owners have been beset by problems. So far they have spent $40 million on the two uncompleted projects, and by every indication the money will not be recouped for years...
...Queen Elizabeth's woes have become even more acute since Cunard sold the ship last year for $8,600,000 to an American consortium, which hoped to convert her into a hotel in Port Everglades, Fla. Unable to raise money, the group sank into bankruptcy. The Elizabeth is scheduled to be auctioned off Sept. 9, and her future is uncertain. The Port Everglades Commission, the municipality's governing body, has decreed that the ship must leave the harbor by December. The pollution-control office of Broward County, in which the liner is moored, has cited her smoky stacks...