1933 Turbine Steamer QUEEN MARY - a photo on Flickriver

1933 Turbine Steamer QUEEN MARY

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Back in Clyde Home Waters 2016 After decades of absence 

If there was ever an appropriate elderly ship to rescue from the hands of the Breaker's it must have been the 83-year old veteran Clyde Turbine Steamer TS Queen Mary (IMO 5287952)
Constructed in 1933 at Denny at Dumbarton
Not long before the Cunard Liner RMS Queen Mary left her slip at John Brown's in Clydebank.

After being at her long-term berth on the Thames Embankment in London as a static restaurant ship , she was moved under tow downstream to Tilbury Docks back in 2009 where she languished for the next 8 years and always under threat of the 'Cutter's Torch'.

In a bold plan , the new charitable organisation #FriendsofTSQueenMary masterminded their audacious purchase just as the 'wrecking ball' was rumoured.

She is pictured having arrived on the river of her birth with tow lines fore & aft on a super sunny May afternoon as she is about to be berthed within James Watt Dock in Greenock for the first time in decades. After a few weeks she was towed further up the River Clyde to Glasgow for safekeeping and berthed under the Science Tower.

She went on to have her 87th Anniversay in 2020

Taken on: May 15, 2016

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