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Wonderful docu on The Queen Mary just finished on BBC4 (rpt) 23:39 - Nov 12 with 505 viewsRyorry

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b07d2wy4/the-queen-mary-greatest-ocean-lin

Her origins on the Clyde & various roles, incl transporting Jewish refugees from Germany & Austria to New York in the late 1930s. Particularly moving was the story of how Commander Robert Irving, one of her captains, held up her sailing for 6 hours at the request of one particular refugee family, the Katzensteins, who were on a train heading to board her at Cherbourg but who were held up when some Gestapo officers boarded the train and stated their papers weren't in order. Ludwig Katzenstein, then age 4, recounted how his father made his way to the front of the train & personally asked the driver to telegraph the ship, which he did - and unbelievably, Cdr Irving did wait for them. Ludwig recounting how it felt to see the Statue of Liberty as they got into New York harbour was something else - "miracles do happen".

Followed by a Timeshift docu 'The Men who built the Liners' - just about to get onto iPlayer - superb stuff.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00nnm7k

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Wonderful docu on The Queen Mary just finished on BBC4 (rpt) on 10:40 - Nov 13 with 424 viewssolemio

Saw this first time round and still remember a lot from it. Very good prog.
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Wonderful docu on The Queen Mary just finished on BBC4 (rpt) on 11:18 - Nov 13 with 414 viewsjaykay

saw a different t.v. doc last night .when channel hopping about how she collided with her support vessel. several hundred lives were lost as she couldn't stop to pick up survivors due to the sub wolf packs and she had thousands of troops on board.

forensic experts say footers and spruces fingerprints were not found at the scene after the weekends rows

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Wonderful docu on The Queen Mary just finished on BBC4 (rpt) on 11:35 - Nov 13 with 408 viewsRyorry

Wonderful docu on The Queen Mary just finished on BBC4 (rpt) on 11:18 - Nov 13 by jaykay

saw a different t.v. doc last night .when channel hopping about how she collided with her support vessel. several hundred lives were lost as she couldn't stop to pick up survivors due to the sub wolf packs and she had thousands of troops on board.


That was part of the same docu, and yes, tragic. 337 lives on the support vessel HMS Curacoa, a C-class light cruiser were lost as the QM, which had a stopping distance of 20 miles, was on submarine-losing zig-zag which cut the other vessel in two.

Afterwards, the blame was apportioned 40% to the QM & 60% to the Curacoa. The QM's construction was so strong that her bow was only dented by the collision & she was able to carry on sailing shored up by a bit of cement, with proper repairs being carried out nuch later.

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Wonderful docu on The Queen Mary just finished on BBC4 (rpt) on 13:20 - Nov 13 with 387 viewsjaykay

Wonderful docu on The Queen Mary just finished on BBC4 (rpt) on 11:35 - Nov 13 by Ryorry

That was part of the same docu, and yes, tragic. 337 lives on the support vessel HMS Curacoa, a C-class light cruiser were lost as the QM, which had a stopping distance of 20 miles, was on submarine-losing zig-zag which cut the other vessel in two.

Afterwards, the blame was apportioned 40% to the QM & 60% to the Curacoa. The QM's construction was so strong that her bow was only dented by the collision & she was able to carry on sailing shored up by a bit of cement, with proper repairs being carried out nuch later.


yes , i did see that part. it was either history channel or yesterday channel where i saw it last night

forensic experts say footers and spruces fingerprints were not found at the scene after the weekends rows

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Wonderful docu on The Queen Mary just finished on BBC4 (rpt) on 18:23 - Nov 13 with 358 viewsRyorry

Wonderful docu on The Queen Mary just finished on BBC4 (rpt) on 13:20 - Nov 13 by jaykay

yes , i did see that part. it was either history channel or yesterday channel where i saw it last night


'Yesterday' probably, v. good at repeating top qual docus.

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