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It was he RMS Queen Elizabeth pulling into New York with service men returning home after the end of World War 2, 1945. The photo was taken just before the RMS Queen Elizabeth's sea trials, having been completed and fully repainted in Cunard livery. When they were fully converted, each could carry well over 10,000 troops per trip. Between the Spring of 1940 and May 1945, the Queen Mary and the Queen Elizabeth phantom-like in their grey war paint had steamed over 930,000 miles - the equivalent to 38 journeys around the world - to bring safely over the oceans some 1,250,000 fighting men of the United Nation. After lengthy negotiations between Sir Percy Bates, chairman of Cunard, and the Government a formal contract for what was known as job 535 was signed on 6 October 1936. Three unidentified men possibly on board RMS QUEEN MARY near Port Jackson in Sydney, May 1940. The Queen in September 1938, was being completed at Clydebank, Scotland, United Kingdom, and in normal circumstances should have joined the Queen Mary on the North Atlantic service in July, 1940. The RMS Queen Elizabeth pulling into New York with service men returning home after the end of World War 2, 1945. The RMS Queen Elizabeth was the second of the two oceanliners which Cunard had built for the New York service. [1] This conversion work was carried out in April.

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