History of 7 Great Cunard Liners

This video is a compilation of:

Music and Select Stock Footage:
LEMMiNO - Encounters
CC BY-SA 4.0

Chapters:
00:00 RMS Mauretania
24:32 RMS Carmania
58:37 RMS Queen Elizabeth
01:18:32 QE2
1:36:43 RMS Caronia
1:55:39 RMS Mauretania 2
2:15:43 RMS Queen Mary

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[sapparooskie]

Imagine if we had the maurentania or Olympic as museums today. Would be so amazing

[patricialessard]

Ah, the Queen Mary. Sailed on her in 65' if I remember right, I was only about 12. My Aunt. Came over to the USA after the war as what was called a GI Bride. Which were English women who fell in love with GI's from America, married then came over to be with them. My Aunt & Uncle were married for 50 years until my Uncle passed away.
My father followed & then my grandparents. We went back to England on the gorgeous Queen Mary in 65' to visit relatives and my 2 cousins and I got to know the rest of the family. A 3 month awesome time!
That ship will always mean a lot to me that I will never forget. I still have the copy of the "log" we were given. The experience was and always will be one of my most unforgettable times of my life, if only we could time travel.
One of the reasons that I love this channel is the in depth telling of stories of all these ships! You tell them with heart. Thank you and may you tell many more. ❤😊

[livethefuture]

We gotta do a grand Cunard vs White Star mash up someday!
Maybe bring in couple of youtubers on like Mike from oceanliner designs and have each shell out for their respective companies of choice, you know lets make a great sort of historical debate about it, could be loads of fun!

[semperparatus]

Just got back in my stateroom from a rough shift of complete shit weather. Then I found your new upload!!!
Thank you!!

[jimmelka]

Fleet Admiral Little, SIR!

Really nice series of videos. Thank You!
I'm one who visited The Queen Mary in around 2005 out of reverence for my mother's World War II troop transport journey on her route to England. (Army Nurse Lt. Jean Eivers. Later she and the nurses she called "my 12 girls" nursed the 8th Army Air Corps and the D-Day and European war casualties.)

The Queen Mary WAS a great ship. Now all she is just a sad old rust bucket. These "Gouls" profiting from her downfall are just scum. I don't believe in "haunted places" or ships. I have been stationed aboard ships where there were unfortunate deaths.

Some very rich someone should honor The Queen Mary by purchasing her, removing any artifacts and preserving them, and then allowing the ship itself to slip slowly beneath the waves for use as an underwater reef and dive spot. A fitting remembrance.

Was it Churchill who said, "Ships have a soul."? The Queen Mary is weeping.

Or, just have The Queen Mary towed to Pier 82 in Philidelphia. Moor her next to The SS United States and have idiots pick her clean (just like The SS United States) and let her rot away. The United States does a fabulous job of preserving historic warships. I have read that something like one quarter of the registered ships in the US Navy are museum ships. But, for some reason it seems that the USA has no real feelings for Ocean Liners. Just my opinion, SIR!

Melka J F
B55-1853
Boilerman 3rd Class

[djpinsky]

Babe the new episode of big old boats come quick !

[gc]

Aquitania was my favourite of the vintage liners, also their first Queen was technically Berengaria (ex-Imperator). Im lucky to have had the pleasure to stay on QM in Long Beach and QE2 in Dubai - both great old ladies full of atmosphere and charm.

[Brock_Landers]

Thank you so much for this compilation video Brad! I'm bored at work so this will certainly help!

[SeaTravelr]

So glad you put the compilation together. Sometimes I just need some good background to avoid politics 🙏🏼🙏🏼

[nogoods]

Waauw.. the beginning reminds me of Startrek Enterprise.. i think the episode was 'through a mirror...darkly' it looks amazing like usual...👍 thank you for the video's 🙂🌻

[krab]

My family stayed in the Queen Mary in Long Beach some time between 2010 and 2014 (or in that range). We were visiting Southern CA with plans to visit Disneyland and my daughter is a huge fan of ghost tours and such so I booked us one night on the Queen Mary with a Ghost Tour. Since we cruise on Disney ships it was quite a difference in design and very interesting but even then the ship was beginning to need repair and meant of the people on the tour were not staying on the ship.

[TheBruceGday]

I have a liking for Aquitania. Yes, she was just an “in between” ship. She was a larger 4 stacker. She was the last 4-stacker. She had beautiful appointments in her interior. She survived late enough to serve in WW2, be returned to passenger service, and have color film of her.

[jetsons]

Brad, this is such a great watch. Will finish tomorrow. Thanks ahead of time for your time, work, "Great Narration" and posting.

[dylanhutson]

I love the music at the beginning! It's very dramatic and perfectly fits the subject!

[geoffreybradford]

This is absolutely a first rate production! Thank you!

[TheSaneHatter]

Ships simply don't last forever: that's just how it is. No ship can be kept in service forever, even as a drydock specimen, and old ships can't legally or practically be preserved, rebuilt, or recreated. This is because time marches on, and shipbuilding needs to evolve with it, making everything, in the end, obsolete. Ships therefore have "lives" with definite births and deaths, just like we do, and like all of us, they're only here in the world for a very short time.

[douglasanderson]

I have a cut through plan of the Caronia. A full colour lithograph which I found in a copy of Boys own journal. It clearly shows the deck guns mounted. Also an original Canadian brochure for the Coronia and the Caramina .The litho shows Cabin interiors even down to hams hanging in the ships stores.

[ponyote]

I'm going to binge this so much. Thank you!

[carlalindsey]

What a nice treat for a Saturday morning! Really enjoyed this! Thanks

[kineuhansen]

for sure cunard is my favorite company of them all