RMS Queen Mary Maiden Voyage

RMS Queen Mary is a retired British ocean liner that operated primarily on the North Atlantic Ocean from 1936 to 1967 for the Cunard Line.^¹ It is currently a hotel, museum, and convention space in Long Beach, California, United States.^¹ It is on the US National Register of Historic Places and member of Historic Hotels of America, the official program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation.^¹ Built by John Brown & Company in Clydebank, Scotland, she was subsequently joined by RMS Queen Elizabeth in Cunard's two-ship weekly express service between Southampton, Cherbourg and New York.^¹ These "Queens" were the British response to the express superliners built by German, Italian, and French companies in the late 1920s and early 1930s.^¹