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MurdochsAid
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 Queen Mary, Part 2
Only "this" last Sunday, I learned from my Auntie Carol, that my Uncle Gary (who looks like Will's reincarnated self) was to Queen Mary, what Thomas Andrews was to Titanic. He has her designs, that he & my auntie will eventually frame and hang on them on their walls. I can't wait to see them.  :heyy:
--MA
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May/30/2006, 8:41 am
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Lights
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Re: Queen Mary, Part 2
Let's hear it for someone who still knew how to make a ship LOOK like a ship!
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May/30/2006, 11:48 am
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MurdochsAid
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Re: Queen Mary, Part 2
Ditto!!! 
-MA
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May/31/2006, 9:36 am
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MurdochsAid
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Re: Queen Mary, Part 2
Everytime the Travel Channel airs Queen Mary 2 - Birth of a Legion...the more I fall in love with that beautiful liner. 
While watching it today, I learned that she's too wide and too long to go through the Panama Canal...so she has to be taken around Cape Horn. Plus, her Commander, Captain Warwick (or is it Harwick?) bares a striking resemblance to our dear ole' Captain E.J. Smith. :sailor:
Her elder sister & namesake, Queen Mary too had to sail around "the" Horn too, when she was originally brought to Long Beach, where she is now stationary.
-MA
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Lights
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Re: Queen Mary, Part 2
Let me tell you, MA...I have a MAJOR case of "bridge envy" when it comes to Sir James Bissett and ther other masters who were lucky enough to have commanded her, though it is honestly in a nice way...I would have LOVED to be able to command a beautiful Lady such as she!
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MurdochsAid
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Re: Queen Mary, Part 2
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Let me tell you...I have a major case of "bridge Envy" when it comes to Sir James Bissett amongst others...though honestly in a nice way...I would have LOVED to be able to command a beautiful Lady such as she!
She, as in QM or QM2? Wonder what the Captains of the Edwardian Era would think of todays joy sticks manner of steering a ship...instead of the standard telemotors? :heyy:
-MA
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Jun/7/2006, 11:42 am
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Lights
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 Re: Queen Mary, Part 2
MA,
As in QM 
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Jun/7/2006, 1:39 pm
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MurdochsAid
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Re: Queen Mary, Part 2
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MA,
As in QM
Oh! Okay. But you didn't answer my above question regarding the joysticks mode of steering today's ships...as well as QM2's pods such as she has.
-MA
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Jun/7/2006, 1:48 pm
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Lights
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Re: Queen Mary, Part 2
I should think that many of the "crackers-on" such as Jock Sutherland and John G. Cameron would look at today's bridges and just shake their heads. (I can just picture Cameron looking at the joystick and saying, "And what the [explitive deleted] do you do with this??!! What the [explitve deleted] happened to the wheel?" As for the pods, I suspect they would only be confused. Incidentally as regards red as a lifeboat colour...I believe that the Germans were the first to think of this idea.
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MurdochsAid
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I should think that many of the "crackers-on" such as jock Sutherland and John G. Cameron would look at today's bridges and just shake their heads. (I can just picture Cameron looking at the joystick and saying, "And what the [explitive deleted] do you do with THIS! What happened to the wheel?" As for the pods, I suspect they would only be confused. Incidentally as regards red as a lifeboat colour...I believe that the Germans were the first to think of this idea.
Yet still, with the computers also installed in Titanic's bridge, don't you agree that the combination of all three devices might have come in handy that fateful night of April 14, 1912? You could see both the iceberg's outline of its underwater ledge and Titanic's bow-to-stern outline, and her starboard bow's nearness to it in her way. Will &/or QM Robert Hichens then could simply; with the joystick, as well as the instrument which to open up the pod doors...turn the ship around either to 'hard a port/starboard'. Hence avoiding that troublesome berg altogether.
Or, on the other hand, as I saw in QM2 - Birth of a Legend, for one of QM2's first of two sea trials. The sea conditions were exactly the same as it was April 14, 1912...very calm and still. They stopped her on a dime, and she didn't glide forward in the water. Had Titanic had those same devices installed on her bridge, she too would have done same, when Will ordered her to be stopped.
That's why I was "very" impressed with Queen Mary 2's two sea trials performances. She lived up to their expectations. 
-MA
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