Model Queen Mary moves into new home (From Daily Echo)
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Model Queen Mary moves into new home
4:30pm Saturday 25th February 2012 in News
By Patrick Knox, Senior Reporter
Model Queen Mary moves into new home
A MODEL of the Queen Mary has taken pride of place at Southampton's new SeaCity Museum.
Moving the 26ft-long, one-tonne scale model into its new home was a Herculean task in itself.
Windows had to be removed and cranes deployed to hoist the ship into the exhibition space at the museum at the city's Civic Centre, where it was welcomed by leisure and tourism supremo Cllr John Hannides.
But the biggest task of all was to bring the massive model into ship-shape condition.
Two conservation technicians were tasked with cleaning the exhibit - using tiny cotton buds.
The job took four days to complete, which is about the record time the real 81,961-tonne liner took to sail to New York during her sailing career which spanned from 1936 to 1967.
The ship, carved from one log of white mahogany, was previously berthed in the old maritime museum.
It is the first artefact in the new museum which opens on April 10.
Comments(4)
lightsouth
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8:58am Sun 26 Feb 12
TEBOURBA
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2:10pm Sun 26 Feb 12
Interesting as this and the other exhibits maybe, it is hardly the attraction that I am likely to visit more than once in every three or four years at best.
I really cannot see where sufficient visitors will come from, to make this a viable proposition, particularly bearing in mind the proposed high cost of admission and the fact that all Southampton's Council Tax Payers are getting a one off, free entry.
Certainly no privately financed organisation has stepped up to the plate to run it which speaks reams.
I fear it will sink as quickly as the ship it commemorates.
fuzzyfelt
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7:25pm Mon 27 Feb 12
loosehead says...
9:24pm Sat 25 Feb 12