Travel Tuesday – Queen’ s Hotel Port Elgin Ontario

September 4, 2012 by SueAnn

The Queen’s Hotel was owned in the 1940′s by Mr. and Mrs. McPhearson, who were great friends to my great-grandmother Edith Basham Lindsay. Every summer, they would drive from Detroit to Port Elgin to spend a month there.

Post card from the Queen’s Hotel Port Elgin, Ontario, Canada

Oscar, Mr. McPhearson, Edith, and Mrs. McPhearson outside the Queen’s Hotel Port Elgin, Ontario

Oscar and Edith outside the Queen’s Hotel, Port Elgin, Ontario

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SueAnn

Travel Tuesday – RMS Queen Elizabeth

August 28, 2012 by SueAnn

Back of postcard says: THE PORT OF NEW YORK is the busiest port in the world. The Queen Elizabeth is shown being berthed. Other ships are from the bottom, The Independence, America, United States, Olympia, Aircraft Carrier Intrepid, Mauretania and Sylvania.

My grandfather and great-grandmother traveled aboard the Queen Elizabeth in 1948 (read that story here).

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SueAnn

Maritime Monday – Sailing on the RMS Queen Elizabeth 1948

July 9, 2012 by SueAnn

Above is the ¹UK Incoming Passenger List for my grandfather, Oscar Rowan Lindsay. My grandpa and his mother, Edith Basham Lindsay traveled to England on the Queen Elizabeth in 1948. They arrived on 4th May, spent a month there and came back to America on the 7th Jun.

This is a little ²history about the RMS Queen Elizabeth:

Operator: Cunard White Star Line
Built by: John Brown & Co., Clydebank, Glasgow, Scotland.
Length: 1,019 ft (310.7 m)
Beam: 118 ft (36.0 m)
Tonnage: 83,673
Engines: Steam turbines. 160,000 s.h.p. Two masts and two funnels.
Service Speed: 31 knots
Passenger Limit: 2,314

Keel laid on December 4, 1936. Launched, September 27, 1938. Note: Largest ship built to date. Promenade deck 724 feet long. Her funnels are 70 feet high from deck level. Commenced her first sailing from the Clyde, bound for New York, February 27, 1940. Her secret sailing was under British Government regulations, so as to lessen the danger of being sunk by the Nazi. Throughout World War II she served as a very valuable troop ship, completing the long period of duty in March 1946. Reconditioned for passenger service. Passengers: 850 first, 720 cabin, 744 tourist. Commenced her first regular Southampton-New York voyage, October 16, 1946, making the crossing in four days, 16 hours, 18 minutes. This was not a record-breaking passage, and not surpassing the time of her running mate, the Queen Mary, but on this occasion no special effort was made to accomplish that feat. The liner is equipped with two sets of stabilizers. Passenger accommodation in 1960: 800 first, 650 cabin, 700 third. Running mate: Queen Mary.
Length: 1,019.4 ft (310.7 m)
Beam: 118 ft (36.0 m)
Tonnage: 83,673
Engines: Steam turbines. 160,000 s.h.p. Two masts and two funnels.
Service Speed: 28.5 knots
Passenger Limit: 2,314

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SueAnn

¹Ancestry.com. UK Incoming Passenger Lists, 1878-1960 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2008. Original data: Board of Trade: Commercial and Statistical Department and successors: Inwards Passenger Lists. Kew, Surrey, England: The National Archives of the UK (TNA). Series BT26, 1,472 pieces.

²Ancestry.com. Passenger Ships and Images [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2007. Original data: Various maritime reference sources.