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LONDON (NEA) - “Remember the Queen Mary!” has become the battle cry of a hard core of Britons who are determined that America shall not capture the 83,000-ton liner Queen Elizabeth when she comes up for sale next year.The Queen Mary was recently bought by Long Beach, Calif., for $3.5 million for use as a combined hotel and maritime museum. Her sister ship, the30-year-old Queen Elizabeth, will likewise be knocked down to the highest bidder when she comes out of service in 1968.Both Queens are being replaced by a smaller vessel, as yet unnamed but known only as the Q4, which will be launched by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth on Sept. 20. The new ship will be used for round-the-world winter cruises, as well as for the North Atlantic run.Meanwhile, news that at least two American syndicates are interested in bidding for the Queen Elizabeth has set the armchair admirals to firing off salvos to The London Times.Better the Queen Elizabeth should be torpedoed than to suffer the fate of the Queen Mary, cry the Admiral Blimps. (No amount of arguing can convince them that Long Beach does not intend to turn the Queen Mary into soma sort of funfair exhibit.)However, to the suggestion that the Queen Elizabeth should be preserved as a national monument the objection is made that the British Isles are already cluttered with ships preserved for one reason or another. These include Nelson’s flagship, the Victory; Admiral Scott’s Discovery, used in exploring the Antarctic; and the Cutty Sark, one of the fastest of the old tea clippers.Others have suggested thatOueen Elizabeth be turned intofromPhilip1 • \vQueen ElizabethPictured in happier days, the Queen Elizabeth will go of service in 1968 and Americans are interested in buying ship. Britons, however, have other ideas.outtheThe Queen Elizabeth is a typ-in Britain.In any event, the Cunard jcai product of the aspirin age, Steamship line, which owns theQueen Elizabeth, will be guidedby cash rather than sentiment in selling her. “Our job is to get the best possible price for our shareholders, says Sir Basil Smallpiece, board chairman.having been christened at theSeptember 1938. After war wasC u n a r d ’ s, incidentally, is amazed at the American interestdeclared, the governments chiefconcern was to get the Queen Elizabeth out of Britain, for the huge, unfinished liner wouldshown in the recent bidding for the Queen Mary; they were prepared to sell it to a ship-breaker for about half the price finally agreed to.have made a perfect sitting target for Hitler’s bombers.0If anything, the Queen Elizabeth has even ereater ties withMarch 2, 1940, the Queen Elizabeth, unarmed and escorted, made a secret dash across the Atlantic to New York, the most daring maiden voyage inaritime history. For althoughmissioning of a ship.During the war, the Queen Elizabeth, painted a drab gray, transported Commonwealthtroops to the Middle East and 8th Army reinforcements to Africa. But mostly she was assigned to the Atlantic run. She made 31 voyages between England and New York from August 1942 to D-Day, 1945. Her troop-carrying capacity was increased to 15.600, which meant that she could transport whole divisions at a time.There were some close shaves too. On Nov. 9, 1942, the Queen Elizabeth was outward-boundfor New York with 7,300 passengers, mostly women and children evacuees, when she was attacked by a German U-boat.All four torpedoes missed their target, thus averting what would have been one of the greatest tragedies in maritime history.At wars end, Winston Churchill paid tribute to the Queenswho had “challenged the fury of Hitlerism in the Battle ofthe Atlantic. “At a speed never before realized in war, they carried over a million men to defend the liberties of civilization, he said.It is with Churchill’s wordsin mind that many Britons ad vocate scrapping the Queer Elizabeth after her last runheight of the Munich crisis in argue.This would be a more fitting end for the old lady than to beturned into a peep-show, theyHer plate could be melted down and incorporated in the sinews of another ocean-going vessel. That way she could take to the sea again. and thusagain,achieve a kind of immortality.Cemetery thieveswere thinking bigLUGAGNANO, Italy (UPI)ThipvM whn invaHpH thp
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Kenosha News
Kenosha, Wisconsin, US
Thu, Aug 24, 1967
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