Steamships
by Walter Thomas
Cunard/Queen Elizabeth/Queen Mary
The two massive oceanliners, with the Queen Elizabeth in the foreground.After World War II, the Cunard Line was finally able to put both of its Queens into service. Although the Queen Mary had taken to the seas in 1936, she left Great Britain in 1940 without a single passenger in order to escape the potential devastation of German bombing; her maiden voyage with customers arrived in October 1946, which would explain her prominent placement in the fore of this Thomas design.