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When it comes to people from the other world, human imagination tends to paint ancient medieval castles and Gothic Victorian mansions. However, ghosts can, figuratively saying keep up with technological progress, mastering, say, large sea vessels.
Giant Liner
Transatlantic liner “RMS Queen Mary” was built Scottish shipbuilding company “John Brown & Company” in the first half of the thirties of the last century, when the world swept the economic crisis. The colossal ship had a length of 310.7 meters, width 36.1 meters, height 55.2 meters, displacement 81237 tons and capacity of 160 thousand horsepower. Just the wheel of it The giant weighed 150 tons. The equipment of the liner required the use of 6437 kilometers of electric cable and over 30 thousand lamps. Crew “Queen Mary” was 1035 people, and the passenger capacity – up to 15 thousand people.
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The ship boasted a main dining room that eclipsed the size of the halls of many royal palaces. For decoration the premises of Queen Mary went velvet, silk and the most noble breeds wood. The ceilings and walls here were decorated with sculptural sculptures, tapestries and paintings, due to which the interior of the ship resembled more art gallery. No wonder the liner was named in honor of Mary Tekskoy – wife of the British King George V.
Queen Mary, a giant even against the background of the legendary The Titanic completed its first voyage on June 1, 1936. The whole world recognized that it was the most advanced and ambitious at that time transatlantic liner, incorporating all the traditions and world shipbuilding innovations. It turned out later that was the last “great liner” that was able to make up competition for passenger aircraft.
In August 1936, the ship completed its sixth voyage, during which crossed the Atlantic Ocean in less than 3 days and 21 hours at a speed of 56.72 kilometers per hour. This record was broken only in the fifties.
Queen Mary Sunset
When World War II began, Queen Mary stopped carrying civilians and was adapted to transport troops. FROM the goal of making the ship less visible to enemies was repainted from black, white and orange to gray. Liner served the british army until 1947, after which the military returned it to its former owners, and the vessel again began to service the line United Kingdom – United States.
However, with the development of air links between Europe and North America sailing on liners has ceased to be so popular as before. The terrible war made many people reconsider your attitude to luxury, making cheaper and fast flights on planes have become for most travelers are much more preferable and more rational.
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Annually the number of people who wanted to cross the Atlantic for four days instead of flying it in a few hours, rapidly declining. Queen Mary’s half-empty swims ceased pay off. Craftsmen “John Brown & Company” equipped the ship pools and for a while turned it into a cruise ship, however, this did not help – in particular, because cruise ships were very much in demand on the route running through Panama channel, however, Queen Mary couldn’t walk on it because of her exorbitant dimensions.
In 1967, the ship made its one thousand first voyage, and on this his ocean service is over. “Queen Mary” bought at a price scrap metal entrepreneur from the American city of Long Beach and installed in a local dock, providing restaurants, a museum, a cafe, a hotel and ballrooms. To this day, it is one of the most popular. tourist attractions of the city, and not only because entertainment. Among the one and a half million people who visit annually this place, there are many who want to see something here supernatural.
Deaths on the liner
Not everyone knows that the once glorified and having made many successful trips, the superliner also has dark side of the past. This information, hidden from the ears of ordinary people, to many it will seem unsightly, sinister, or even truly terrifying. The fact is that Queen Mary is responsible for many deaths, and it’s believed that the spirits of all these dead are still walk around the ship, which is today a kind of park entertainment.
Already during the launching of the ship, September 26, 1934, on shipbuilding slipways killed four workers. “Very bad omen, ”experienced sailors sighed. Then a good deal followed other deaths.
Amazing but luxurious and amazingly beautiful the transatlantic liner for some reason turned into a real Mecca for suicides. It is constantly thrown overboard bankrupt businessmen, debt to the mafia gamblers, husbands left by wives, as well as broken-hearted ladies. Among wanting to take their own lives began to take a ticket to one end to the “Queen Mary”, laying hands on herself in the middle Atlantic. Those who did not crash on water usually froze in ice water, bringing the plan to the end. According to rumors translucent human silhouettes rushing overboard, has long been anchored, here you can see to this day.
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When the war started, things got worse. Once a ship transported 16 thousand soldiers across the Indian Ocean, which exceeded permissible limit per thousand people. No indoor ventilation was, and the military, rammed in cabins like herring in a barrel, began to die from a lack of oxygen. According to one of the survivors eyewitnesses, it was a real nightmare, because every seven minutes on the ship was dying soldier. When the liner arrives at its destination, the number of its passengers was reduced by several hundred. Soon after that, Queen Mary was nicknamed the “Gray Ghost” – not so much because of his camouflage coloring how much because of the habit of the ship take human lives.
Once during World War II on the “Queen Mary” of England to the States transported several dozen German and Italian soldier. The captives were only seventeen to eighteen years old. Naturally, they were isolated. When the next morning the camera was open, they all turned out to be dead. Young people preferred mass captivity suicide. According to the captain of the liner, he was to the core shocked that these boys did this. They say that with since then on board the ship you can see the ghosts of these young soldiers with hands and throats cut.
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In 1942, Queen Mary was attacked by a Nazi submarine and was forced to abruptly change course. As a result of this unexpected the maneuver the liner at full speed cut into two parts the following near the military cruiser “Curacao”. The cruiser drowned, taking with him to the abyss of more than three hundred people. After that, Queen Mary became periodically hear a loud noise indistinguishable from a tragic clashes with Curacao.
The Ghosts of Queen Mary
The first reports of immigrants appearing on “Queen Mary, “began to arrive back in the late thirties, and in the post-war the time of living on the ship from phantoms did not at all. Many experts say that this was the reason for the conclusion to 1967 liner out of service. People didn’t just refuse sail on this ship – they frankly feared angry ghosts of people who died through the fault of this fateful ship.
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American professor of psychology Peter James became interested devilry on the liner after being personally in 1991 I ran into a ghost here. A man in the deck approached the scientist old-fashioned captain’s suit. Stranger who had unnatural pale complexion, politely greeted James and unexpectedly disappeared into the air, going over the nearest bulkhead. Shocked the American told the guide about this, and he said that on this place was really found at one time dead then the captain of the ship by the name of Stark.
Notably, Queen Mary has exactly 365 cabins – as many as days in a normal year. And in each of these premises you can find something that defies logical explanation. If you add all the devilry going on over here outside the cabins, it becomes clear that “Queen Mary” is one of the most haunted places not only in America but also in all over the world.
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