Word: woolfenden
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Queen Elizabeth steamed toward New York harbor last week with 711 passengers (capacity: 2,304), a message over the ship's radio instructed Captain Joseph E. Woolfenden to open a sealed envelope he had received before sailing from Southampton. Woolfenden was stunned by what he read. At that moment, the Cunard Steam-Ship Co. Ltd. was announcing in London that the world's two largest ocean liners would be retired-the Queen Elizabeth within 18 months, the older Queen Mary as early as next October...
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