3rd April 1929
The RMS Queen Mary was a transatlantic which that sailed on the route Southampton-Cherbourg-New York from 1936 to 1967.
Its construction was ordered in 1929 and the ship was launched five years later, in 1934. The Queen Mary was extremely fast for that period indeed in 1938 it reached a speed of 30,99 Knots winning the Blue Riband.
In 1940 it came to Sydney and in order to make it useful for the war the transatlantic was converted in a troop transport ship, it was colored gray and called the Grey Ghost.
After the Second World War, The Queen Mary returned to be a civilian ship and after its last trip itwas transformed in a floating museum, hotel and restaurant.