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Preserving the history of retiring cruise ships

by trevin on 10/30/24, 1:08 PM with 65 comments

• by jimnotgym on 11/3/24, 9:54 AM

  No mention that the British Cunard liners, like the Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth, were subsidised by the government.

  The government loved having big fast ships it could requisition as troup carriers. The two queens were too fast to be intercepted by uboats. Mary moved 800k troups in WW2

  As late as 1982 the Canberra was requisitioned and sent to the Falkland Islands conflict.

• by lobochrome on 11/3/24, 8:27 AM

  Not actually saving them. Just collecting souvenirs and mementos before they are scrapped.

• by rbanffy on 11/3/24, 1:17 PM

  I'll remind my wife that my vintage computer collection hobby could be a whole lot worse...

• by moffkalast on 11/3/24, 10:45 AM

  I was half expecting our friend, Mike Brady, from Oceanliner Designs.

• by drewm1980 on 11/3/24, 7:40 AM

  No mention of how cruise ships are essentially entire cities powered by fossil fuels that dump their waste directly into the ocean?

• by HL33tibCe7 on 11/3/24, 10:16 AM

  Couldn’t make it past the second paragraph. So pretentiously written