RMS Queen Mary, Located in Long Beach California

Loved by millions, and world famous, the Queen Mary is one of Long Beach’s best-known attractions. While staying at the Best Western Long Beach California Hotel, you’re only minutes away from this popular Long Beach attraction. Our hotel shuttle will be pleased to drop you off and pick you up from this Long Beach attraction.
By all measures RMS Queen Mary was truly "titanic." Bigger, faster and more powerful than her predecessor the Titanic, Queen Mary lived a long life that included 1,001 successful Atlantic crossings. Built at the John Brown shipyard on the Clyde, Scotland, in 1937, the Queen Mary held the record for the fastest-ever North Atlantic crossing, and for three years she carried the rich and famous across the Atlantic in great luxury.

Now Queen Mary rests in the Long Beach harbor, converted into a tourist attraction. Guides' voices echo in the now-empty engine room, where 27 boilers once generated 160,000 horsepower. On the dining room wall, a map tracked the position of the Queen Mary and her sister ship the Queen Elizabeth as passengers anticipated their passing in mid-ocean. Now they are still.
While not so big and sleek as today's mega-cruise liners, the Queen Mary is an elegant reminder of a bygone era. There are several options for visiting the Queen Mary:

• Self-guided Shipwalk tours take visitors over the 1020-footQueen Mary, from the engine room to the wheelhouse.
• Daily guided tours explore the glorious past of Queen Mary, from the luxurious dining room to the indoor fresh water swimming pool.
• The Ghosts and Legends of the Queen Mary tour dramatizes paranormal and historic events over the last sixty years.
  
  RMS Queen Mary : Statistics

• Overall Length: 1019.5 feet
• Height: 237 feet
• Weight: 81,237 gross tons
• Number of portholes: 2,000
• Number of rivets holding the ship together: Over 10 million
• Horse Power: 160000
• Cruising Speed: 28.5 knots (55.17 km./hr.)

During her lifetime The RMS Queen Marry crossed the North Atlantic Ocean 1001 times and gained a special place in 20th centaury history. Some famous guests aboard the Ship included King Edward VIII, Her Majesty Queen Mary, Queen Elizabeth and Winston Churchill.

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