Has anyone seen the horror movie Haunting of the Queen Mary? Watched it last night and it was great, bit confusing at times but I enjoyed it They did a fantastic job filming and showing off the Queen Mary, she looked amazing

Not technically an ocean liner, I know, but according to Wikipedia: “Unlike many previous Cunard ships, Queen Victoria is not a traditional ocean liner, as she does not have the heavy plating throughout the hull. However, the bow was constructed with heavier plating to cope with the transatlantic run, and the ship has a high freeboard.”

Much better looking ship than most of the bonkers cruise ships we get here in Rotterdam (anything from AIDA, for instance).

I know the Southampton to New York one was obviously the most famous, with the largest Ocean Liners traversing this route.

But the Southampton, Capetown, Sydney run was also relatively busy.

Any other?

from pszz (Flickr)

And how many lifeboats in each gantry davit

from jgsmuzzy (Flickr)

Just gone down a bit of a rabbit hole with fire at sea, especially the decade of fire for French liners. Why, about after the Great Depression, did so many ocean liners burn? L’Atlantique, Paris, Normandie, Lafayette, Morro Castle, Yarmouth Castle, Achille Lauro; all of them are pretty infamous for their fiery demise. Of the top of my head, I can’t think of any Edwardian liners that burned. Plenty of sinkings, accidents, and calamity, but were any WSL or Cunard ships devastated by fire?