Top Liner 1948

[NORKAISER]

the most beautiful ship ever built. Not even the Normandie has such well balanced lines.

[Jeranwars]

cool ship



[starmanskye]

Jeez, compared with today the immediate postwar era seems like the very-best Glory Days for USA -- even as the seeds of our inevitable dissolution, cooption, subversion & betrayal were being sown by dark, devious forces plotting & colluding between corporate power, government, Wall Street, the Military Establishment Industry, Pentagon & related special interests.

[Tyneyarder]

The Lightship "Calshot Spit" seen in frame 03:43 still exists today as the home of the Royal Northumberland Yacht Club. The Lightship now named Tyne III is moored in South Harbour, Blyth. More can be read about her on RNYC web page.

[1976Afroman]

she was the most graceful and well balanced ocean liner ever to have been built!!!...simply floating perfection!!

[someonespadre]

You mean Grandma could actually travel somewhere with out getting her baggage x-rayed and searched?

[werksdesign]

Yea, you're right about the raised forecastle.... I didn't consider that.

[goodbyelonglive44]

Before the Jet Engine world seemed to be so huge...and so traveling around it was so romantic...

can anyone recomend me a movie or a documentary where there is lot of travelling in roaring 20s..? 

[cjmarsh504]

Muster drills.

[brotmann86]

when the last ships built in the 60's are gone like the mona lisa well never see the classic lines of a ship again propably, its sad they scrapped the ss norway and the qe2 becoming disformed in dubai

[brotmann86]

i do so love youtube and the people here for the oportunity to experience videos like this, i wouldnt know how to find such a treasure without this, i am 23 now but ive been fastinated with the old liners since the nineties and i rarely ever saw clips like this one from this era back then

thank you for posting a lot, best regards from germany :-)

[boonchuey]

Oh my goodness. What a joy to discover this film. I had the great good fortune to sail to New York and back on a round trip in 1966. First Class too! It was a glorious trip which I can recall in my mind as clear as if it happened last month. No ocean liner built since has matched the grace, grandeur and sheer majesty of this beautiful lady. Sadly, the Cunard of today is but a poor imitation of the past. I count myself so very lucky to have sailed and experienced life aboard her. Magic!

[brotmann86]

did u sneak down to tourist class and have a big party? ;-))

[EthylMerts]

The music underneath is a hoot. The narrator says they are back in the old country: to the tune of Dvorak's "New World Symphony"! And Wagner in 1948 Britain?????? The rubble of London hadn't even been cleared yet.

[goodbyelonglive44]

@EthylMerts why did you see the hitler mustache @5:44...in 1948...thats about 4 years after ww2

[cunardia123]

Loved it!

[lasuvidaboy]

Most of QEs Eastbound American passengers in 1948 were probably of UK ancestory.

[CunardProductions94]

Britain=Old Country?

[Shangas]

Yeah. 'Old country' is basically another term for 'homeland'.

[godseesnocolour]

exact same place were titanic sail'd from. :(

[prckay]

are there videos of the QUEEN Elizabeth 2 Launch

[ragemanchoo82]

I wonder whatever happened to that statue at 12:57? Did Cunard remove it (and that Canterbury Tales painting) when they sold the liner?

I couldn't imagine having an interior cabin without windows showing the outside world. :p Would seem pretty claustrophobic.

[ragemanchoo82]

Awesome video :D

[7855waldo]

Absolutely paceless...snore...

[gasthorpe]

so who forced you to watch it moron?

[lasuvidaboy]

She along w/the Normandie were the best looking liners of the 1930s. Great film!

[SimbaNalaKiara]

Don't Forget the R.M.S. Queen Mary, she too sailed during the 1930's and was Cunard & very close in design to the Queen Elizabeth!

[werksdesign]

You're absolutely correct, they both have the same classic lines, and the difference is the Queen Mary has three stacks and the Queen Elizabeth has two. Other than that, the two ships were almost identical beauties.

[terlitsky]

@werksdesign Don't forget the Queen Mary had a raised Forecastle deck too. :)

In my opinion, the Queen Mary's 3 funnels and raised Forecastle made her even more beautiful than her younger sister. Too bad most of these ships are gone. At least the Mary is still hanging in there. And hopefully, the Gov. will do something to save the SS United States.

[Maasdam1993]

As Holland America Line fan. I conclude that the RMS Queen Elizabeth is Cunard's most handsome liner ever.

[zoly675]

when the ship arrive in southampton...

[zoly675]

what is the song name at the begining?

the orchestra...

thanks

[Maxobillion]

I am wondering what the name of the song is too. I remember hearing it in the beginning of Nazi German news.

[lasuvidaboy]

It was arson as fires were set in several different locations at the same time.

[simonsteam]

Wow! Thankyou for posting this.its amazing to see the work that went into the running of the ship.the ammount of painting etc.

[Titanic0002]

It's such a shame someone set fire to her in Hong Kong. She was such a beautiful and majestic ship.

[theshipman]

Arson? I thought it was classified as an accident. Havn't looked up the Queen in years.

[queenmarykid]

@Titanic0002 It's an even bigger shame she got sold to Hong Kong. They should have kept her in Miami.