Glasgow And Ships Of The Clyde

Arrival

Tuesday, May 11, 1943 @ 0700
DATE is correct but ACTUAL TIME is unknown : the time shown is our best estimate 		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

QUEEN MARY arrives at Staten Island in New York Harbor
Port of RegistryLiverpool (England, UK)

   It was 5th May 1943 and the middle of World War 2.

The Cunard liner QUEEN MARY, operating as a troopship, was anchored off Gourock in the Firth of Clyde and preparing to

make a trans-Atlantic crossing to New York.

 

   That evening a special railway train brought the

British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, High Military

Officers, Politicians and staffs to the pier and they

were taken to the liner.   The reason for this high-level

journey was a meeting at Washington between Churchill

and the American President Roosevelt to agree the

invasion plans of Sicily and Italy and some other

important matters.

 

   QUEEN MARY immediately weighed her anchor and

proceeded to sea to make a high-speed voyage to

New York, arriving off Staten Island on May 11, and

the important passengers were taken by special

railway train to Washington.