# Canonical recap data for RMS Queen Mary Maiden Voyage (1936)
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slug: queen-mary-maiden-voyage
canonicalUrl: "https://recap.at/1936/queen-mary-maiden-voyage"
title: RMS Queen Mary Maiden Voyage
subtitle: The world's largest passenger liner set sail, embodying the ambition of interwar ocean travel and establishing a benchmark for maritime engineering prestige.
recapType: global_event
eventStatus: concluded
startDate: 1936-01-01
datePrecision: year
year: 1936
decade: 1930
country:
name: United Kingdom
slug: united-kingdom
summaryShort: 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. It is currently a hotel, museum, and convention space in Long Beach, California, United States. It is on the US National Register of Historic Places and member of Historic Hotels of
summaryLong: 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. It is currently a hotel, museum, and convention space in Long Beach, California, United States. 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. 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. These "Queens" were the British response to the express superliners built by German, Italian, and French companies in the late 1920s and early 1930s.
heroImageUrl: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/Queen_Mary_ship%2C_Long_Beach%2C_California_LCCN2011630073_%28crop%29.tif/lossy-page1-330px-Queen_Mary_ship%2C_Long_Beach%2C_California_LCCN2011630073_%28crop%29.tif.jpg"
heroImageCredit: Wikipedia · "RMS Queen Mary"
importance: 67
sourceConfidence: 75
keyFacts: []
timeline: []
sources:
- url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Queen_Mary"
  title: RMS Queen Mary
  provider: Wikipedia
related: []
categories:
- tech-launch
metaDescription: 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. It is currently a hot
wikidataQid: Q752939
archiveSnapshots:
- url: "https://web.archive.org/web/20260628031810/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Queen_Mary"
  capturedAt: 2026-06-28
  label: RMS Queen Mary
  originalUrl: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Queen_Mary"
