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The City of Long Beach bought the ship to serve as a tourist attraction featuring restaurants, a museum and a hotel. She left Southampton for the last time on 31 October 1967 and sailed to the port of Long Beach, California, United States, where she was permanently moored. By the mid-1960s, Queen Mary was ageing and was operating at a loss.Īfter several years of decreased profits for Cunard Line, Queen Mary was officially retired from service in 1967. The two ships dominated the transatlantic passenger transportation market until the dawn of the jet age in the late 1950s. With the outbreak of World War II, she was converted into a troopship and ferried Allied soldiers during the conflict.įollowing the war, Queen Mary was refitted for passenger service and along with Queen Elizabeth commenced the two-ship transatlantic passenger service for which the two ships were initially built. Queen Mary sailed on her maiden voyage on and won the Blue Riband that August she lost the title to SS Normandie in 1937 and recaptured it in 1938, holding it until 1952, when it was taken by the new SS United States.
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The two ships were a British response to the express superliners built by German, Italian and French companies in the late 1920s and early 1930s. Queen Mary, along with RMS Queen Elizabeth, were built as part of Cunard's planned two-ship weekly express service between Southampton, Cherbourg and New York. RMS Queen Mary is a retired British ocean liner that sailed primarily on the North Atlantic Ocean from 1936 to 1967 for the Cunard-White Star Line and was built by John Brown & Company in Clydebank, Scotland. 4 × Parsons single-reduction geared steam turbines.Preserved as a hotel/museum/tourist attraction We decided to take agency over our lives, to control our narratives.Southampton, New York, via Cherbourg (normal transatlantic voyage East and West bound) We simply had enough of mainstream LGBT organizations predominantly run by cis lesbian and gay folk controlling our narratives through strategic eraser and lack of inclusion, what they like to call "unconscious bias." We recognized and were enraged by that lack of representation of TWOC/TPOC in leadership roles and on the boards of these organizations who are leading the political platform for LGBT "equality." We were tired of being afterthoughts, photo ops, and deliverables for the not-for-profit-industrial complex. We simply had enough of our people dying in the streets. Even though NYPD pulled Paris Wilson off her bloodied body, he walks the streets free from prosecution. She succumb to her injuries five days later. Islan was a 21-year-old trans woman of color who was pummeled into a coma outside a New York City police station. The event lacked intentionality and respect for our lived experiences and narratives. Lourdes: Trans Women of Color Collective was founded In September of 2013 by a group of trans women of color who came together after the vigil held for Islan Nettles by mainstream LGBT NGOs and NPOs without the inclusion of TWOC/TPOC leadership.