RMS QUEEN ELIZABETH I, Ephemera, Memorabilia, 1948 Cunard White Star Line

All dated 1948

The collection includes the following items

Passenger list and information booklet, 17th Nov, First Class, Southampton - New York

Unused head paper x 1

3 x menus , 20th, 23rd, 24th Nov Lunch / Dinner

Doily drink mat

RMS Queen Elizabeth was an ocean liner operated by Cunard Line. In tandem with Queen Mary both ships provided a weekly luxury liner service between Southampton in the United Kingdom and New York City in the United States, via Cherbourg in France.

Whilst being constructed in the mid-1930s by John Brown and Company at Clydebank, Scotland, the build was known as Hull 552. Hull 552 was launched on 27 September 1938 and named in honour of Queen Elizabeth, the wife of King George VI. With a design that improved upon that of Queen Mary, Queen Elizabeth was slightly larger being 12 feet longer than her sister ship, She was the largest passenger liner ever built at that time and for 56 years thereafter. She entered service in March 1940 as a troopship in the Second World War, and it was not until October 1946 that she made her first commercial voyage in her intended role as an ocean liner.

Good used condition for age, with some superficial wear and marks

Nautical box 11