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QF Focus Magazine


Page 11


Maritime News by Michael Walter Smith, photo by Dave Souza.


Due to the winter months, there haven’t been many visits from cruise ships to Cartagena to allow me to place something in from our home waters in the South of Spain.


However, some exciting news from the waters of the Clyde in Glasgow, Scotland, as just before Christmas saw the return of the TS Queen Mary. The TS Queen Mary is currently on the same quayside as the Waverley at the Science Centre, Glasgow. She arrived back on the Clyde in May, however reached her current berth on 9th November 2016. She had previously been berthed at the Port of Tilbury in Essex.


The TS Queen Mary has been brought back to Glasgow by the Charity, Friends of the TS Queen Mary who launched an appeal for its return with the aim to have it restored.


The TS Queen Mary is one of the oldest Clyde-built Steamers, being built in 1933 in Dumbarton. The last time the TS Queen Mary was in the Clyde was in 1977, so this clearly is an amazing achievement for such an ‘old lady’ and with such enthusiasm to have her restored, I am sure a truly amazing site to be worth waiting for.


After such an amazing cruising life on the Clyde for the TS Queen Mary, especially through the War years, the aim of the Charity is to restore the vessel in order to open her as an Arts and Culture Venue. Already £300,000 has been gathered for the essential repairs but the full cost to get the vessel open as an Arts and Culture Venue is reported to be around £2 million. Definitely worth a visit to see such a Grand Old Lady!


Personally it grieves me to see this vintage vessel as a Culture Centre when built to ply the waters and think she would be much more of an attraction operating together with "Waverley".


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