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PostPosted: Sat May 14, 2022 5:37 pm 
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Long Beach: City begins demolishing historic Queen Mary lifeboats.

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For the Queen Mary’s lifeboats, it was a rather unceremonious ending.

Workers in protective gear early Friday were scraping away lead paint and an excavator with a large metal claw ripped apart the vessels for easier removal on a flatbed truck. It marked the final journey for most of the lifeboats after no qualified bidders stepped up to buy them from Long Beach.

As part of several critical safety projects for the Queen Mary, Long Beach this week began the process of disposing of 14 of the lifeboats that hung from the deteriorating ocean liner.

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The boats, which measure about 36-feet long and weigh around 12,000 pounds, were removed from the ship in February via a large crane after the city determined they were a safety hazard and in danger of falling.

Of the ship’s 22 total lifeboats, three were identified for preservation, including two that were left on the ship. Five have been set aside for future consideration, city officials said.

“The removal of nearly 100 tons of weight has alleviated significant stress from the side shell of the ship and has allowed for further critical repairs to the internal support system to be conducted,” the city said in a statement Friday. “Additional work for internal structural repairs began this month and are anticipated to be completed later this year.”

The city was disassembling the boats per safety and environmental regulations, while working to identify some parts that could be saved and creatively repurposed, including props, rudders and other artifacts of interest, officials said.

Long Beach put the boats up for auction for museums, preservation groups and developers who might want to take one or all of the boats for restoration. The city said it also engaged with local, regional and national historical and preservation organizations, but in the end, only two proposals were submitted, and neither met the city’s requirements to show how they would safety transport and repair the vessels.

In a costly caveat, any winner would have needed to provide their own transportation to cart the vessels off the Queen Mary parking lot, and they also would have had to sign a liability waiver since the boats contain lead paint.

Completed in Clydebank, Scotland, in 1936, the Queen Mary originally had two smaller rescue boats and 22 lifeboats, which could fit as many as 145 passengers.

An assessment from architectural consulting firm Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates found that 15 of the boats are original to the Queen Mary, while the others may have come from other ocean liners.

The Queen Mary remains closed to the public while the city completes $5 million in critical safety repairs. The city plans to reopen the ship later this year.…

More here: https://lbpost.com/news/video-city-begi ... -lifeboats

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PostPosted: Sun May 15, 2022 12:27 pm 
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Sad to see! RMS Queen Mary has been mismanaged since the day Cunard sold her. Hopefully there is still a future for this beautiful ship.

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PostPosted: Thu May 19, 2022 2:16 pm 
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wow you can even see paint peeling throughout the full length of her upper superstructure... a sad and sorry sight indeed!

Hopefully they can save the rest of the ship for generations to come.


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