{"product_id":"queen-elizabeth-seawise-university-1940-have-to-happen-maiden-cruse-brochure-fire-clippings","title":"QUEEN ELIZABETH\/SEAWISE UNIVERSITY: 1940 - Have-to-happen maiden cruse brochure + fire clippings","description":"\u003cp\u003eCunard Line - A four-page maiden voyage announcement for the SEAWISE UNIVERSITY and two news clipping describing her demise by fire in Hong Kong. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe ex-QUEEN ELIZABETH was scheduled to take a 75-day \"Circle Pacific Cruise\" in April 1972. I would have booked the Royal Suite with two bedrooms, three sitting rooms, a dining room, and four bathrooms, all for just $13,500 p.p. ($110,000) in today's dollars). For budget-minding tourists, a miserable D Deck inner could be had for $2,250 (about what my dad paid for a new Ford Ranch wagon back then).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTwo news clipping describe her demise to an arson fire in January '72. One shows a dramatic photo of the dying liner who the other shows the QE departing New York on her final Cunard voyage.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhere have the great maritime reporters gone? I love this summation of the ex-QUEEN by Times journalist Paul Montgomery: \"Depending on time and context, she was a glittering paramour, a devoted manservant, a stately monarch, an aging mistress, a dowager down on her luck. At the end she was a jet-age anachronism, an old actress with her fingers forever to her lips in a good-by.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVery good condition.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"FOB","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52494369849625,"sku":"6452","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2236\/1411\/files\/6452.jpg?v=1780948533","url":"https:\/\/nautiques.net\/products\/queen-elizabeth-seawise-university-1940-have-to-happen-maiden-cruse-brochure-fire-clippings","provider":"Nautiques","version":"1.0","type":"link"}