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Sunday, March 31, 1957 @ 2000
DATE is correct but ACTUAL TIME is not known - any TIME SHOWN is our estimate for guidance only
QUEEN MARY (1936-1940 Passenger liner 1,019.4 ft (310.7 m) of Cunard Line: 1940-1946 Troopship: 1946-1967 returned to service with Cunard Line, Liverpool) Own Page

Cunard Liner QUEEN MARY is "blacklisted" in Southampton and may give her passengers to IVERNIA

Ship's locationCherbourg (France)Port of RegistryLiverpool (England, UK)

   A dispute involving dockworkers on strike at Southampton has resulted in the Cunard passenger liner QUEEN MARY being “blacklisted” at the port, apparently because the ship was being overhauled there and had sailed without the work being completed and also because Naval tugs had been used in assisting her to leave for New York.

   QUEEN MARY was on her return passage from New York and was scheduled to call at the French port of Cherbourg to disembark some passengers before returning to Southampton.

   However, with QUEEN MARY now being unable to return to Southampton with her 1,150 Britain-bound passengers, the Cunard Line have had to make alternative arrangements.

   QUEEN MARY usually calls at Cherbourg for three or four hours before leaving for Southampton, and Cunard have arranged for the liner to remain at Cherbourg for four days and then return direct to New York.

   For the passengers Cunard Line have two options available.   One is to have four special railway trains to take them to Calais and catch cross-channel ferries back to England.   The other option is to have the liner IVERNIA come from Plymouth and take them to Southampton.

   The 1,250 members of crew of QUEEN MARY have sent a message from the ship to the National Union of Seamen in London asking for their assistance in having the “blacklisting” removed from the ship.