The ocean liner RMS 'Queen Mary', Clydebank, Glasgow Denali Mike Lorimer

Mike Lorimer

Lake District - Ullswater 19 June 1961

18th century English journalist and politician

showing the gate on fire during the Great Fire of London 1666 at the point when the walls of Ludgate Gaol fell

The ocean liner RMS 'Queen Mary', Clydebank, Glasgow Denali Mike LorimerThe ocean liner RMS 'Queen Mary', Clydebank, Glasgow, 1934 (1935). Built by John Brown & Co on Clydeside for the Cunard White Star Line, the 81,000 ton Queen Mary was the largest ocean liner in the world when she was launched in 1934. Apart from an interlude as a troopship during World War II, she dominated the transatlantic route, together with her sister, the 'Queen Elizabeth', until she was retired from service in 1967. Since then she has been a