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Topic: Queen Mary - Telephones?

Malcolm @ cruisepage
Cruise Director
Member # 301

posted 08-09-2001 06:04 PM

I recall seeing a picture of the QM's cabin telephones. Each had a label on they saying something like: "Telephone anywhere in the world".

How was this achieved in an era without communication satellite?

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Jekyll
First Class Passenger
Member # 1878

posted 08-09-2001 09:00 PM

Malcolm:

Even you should know he answer to this...it's the same as the electricity questions... QM had phone cords that stretched from Southampton to NYC and the recoiled on the journey back!

I wonder if they had phone service onboard going around SA to Long Beach???????

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Malcolm @ cruisepage
Cruise Director
Member # 301

posted 08-10-2001 05:27 AM

Thankd Jekyll, that's funny?

An experts out there?

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Barryboat
First Class Passenger
Member # 33

posted 08-10-2001 11:08 AM

They used Radio for phone calls.

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Malcolm @ cruisepage
Cruise Director
Member # 301

posted 08-10-2001 03:04 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Barryboat:
They used Radio for phone calls.

Barry, I though of this but I wondered how well this would work in the middle of the Atlantic?

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Jesse C
First Class Passenger
Member # 1678

posted 08-11-2001 01:21 AM

Perhaps they put the "CALL ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD" after the ship became a hotel, and center for the West Coast STS DCI Pokemon Tournament.

Actually, there was a second transatlantic cable laid by the Graet Eastern in the 1886. In port, the Queen Mary would have used that, if the Cable remained intact?

This is confusing.

Jesse jessec@pdq.net

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Malcolm @ cruisepage
Cruise Director
Member # 301

posted 08-11-2001 05:38 AM

quote:
Originally posted by Jesse C:
Perhaps they put the "CALL ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD" after the ship became a hotel...

No, this was during her Transatlanic days?

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Marina
First Class Passenger
Member # 1664

posted 08-11-2001 11:07 AM

Malcolm,
you are treading on dangerous turf here.
The reason the Queen mary sailed always across the atlantic NY><Southampton was because, she was actually attached to the undersea telephon cable. this was laid after the titanic incident, to ensure that no company was sending their ships in a too much northerly route, chasing the blue ribbon. Thus the udnerwater line which linked the ship to the cable, was also then used for the telephone service!!!
Cheers.

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Malcolm @ cruisepage
Cruise Director
Member # 301

posted 08-11-2001 12:21 PM

Hang on, it's not April 1st yet, is it?

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Jesse C
First Class Passenger
Member # 1678

posted 08-12-2001 12:16 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Malcolm:
No, this was during her Transatlanic days?

Perhaps there was a disclaimer that read, "Only if you were in Port!"

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Frank X. Prudent
First Class Passenger
Member # 1723

posted 08-13-2001 02:04 PM

A 1957 brochure for the S.S. NORTH AMERICAN and S.S. SOUTH AMERICAN, which operated on the Great Lakes during the summer passenger season, touts that both ships offered ship to shore calls too. Perhaps it was the same technology used aboard the R.M.S. QUEEN MARY?

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Malcolm @ cruisepage
Cruise Director
Member # 301

posted 08-13-2001 05:08 PM

Ah, Frank at least someone is talking sense to me!

It must simply be Radio, but I just though that the claim "Phone anywhere in the world" was very impessive for the era, especially when the QM was several thausand miles from land in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean!

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JohnM
First Class Passenger
Member # 1246

posted 08-13-2001 08:19 PM

With communications satelites and cell phones, we get used to line-of-site communications which to which those high UHF frequencies are limited. But in the good old days, the long wave, low frequency waves used could propogate over the curvature of the earth due to the effect of the ionosphere. Communication is possible from the middle of the atlantic.
A former radio engineer
JohnM

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Guest
First Class Passenger
Member # 1157

posted 09-08-2001 11:14 AM

Where can we see this photo?

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