Queen Mary 2 recalls maiden arrival of original Queen Mary into The big apple
Queen Mary 2 sailed into Big apple on Saturday 1 June 2013, she arrived at the 77th anniversary of the maiden call of the unique Queen Mary in The big apple in 1936. Queen Mary’s Maiden Voyage began in Southampton on 27 May 1936 and she or he left to the sounds of bands and ecstatic crowds. On board were the famous bandleader, Henry Hall , scheduled to present a sequence of live radio broadcasts in the course of the crossing; the virtuoso harmonica player, Larry Adler ; and a well-known singer of the time, Frances Day , who performed a song written specially for Queen Mary by Henry Hall , ‘Somewhere at Sea’. And, much as she can have liked being at sea, Miss Day didn’t trust the ship’s...
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