This Great Ship Had... Some Quirks
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In this video, Mike Brady from Ocean Liner Designs interviews designer and engineer Steven Pay to explore the unique design characteristics and historical quirks of the original Queen Mary. Pay explains that ship design involves a constant tension between passenger comfort and commercial profitability. The discussion covers several specific engineering challenges, including the destabilizing effect of the well deck in rough weather and the initial lack of handrails in passenger corridors. Pay details the ship's massive operational requirements, such as the gargantuan amount of laundry and the prodigious daily fuel consumption. The conversation also touches upon the technical aspects of the ship's stability, the purpose of the different funnel rakes, and the maintenance difficulties posed by large air intake vents. Additionally, they discuss the transition from riveted to welded hulls and the evolution of safety features like gravity davits. The video concludes by comparing the original Queen Mary to the modern Queen Mary 2, noting how advancements in computer modeling and structural engineering have addressed many of the historical issues faced by the original transatlantic liner.
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the Queen Mary is remembered as one of history's greatest ships - but her designs was far from perfect!
there's no such thing as a perfect ship the reason being that a ship is a commercial Enterprise there basically to make money
the world deck forward and to be honest I don't know why they introduced that world deck because what it tended to do in rough weather water would come over the bow of the ship and would fall fall into that well deck and would literally destabilize the ship
Queen Mary was the only ship of state of the 1930s so of Europa Breman Normandy Rex cont seya she was the only one that turned a profit without a government subsidy
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