The 'Queen Mary' Sails The arrival of the Queen Mary
at New York will be hailed with hardly less enthusiasm than attended her departure from Southampton. It need not be expected that she will break records on her first voyage. A ship's engines have to be run-in no less than a motor-ear's. Nor is the creation of records her chief purpose. Comfort and security- count no less than speed.. In her combination of the three- the Queen Mary represents the greatest achievement of British shipyards, and British shipyards can still do as fine work as any in the world. In this country, her launch blessed by King George and her departure by King Edward, she has become a legend even before her first Atlantic voyage. Skilled constructors have designed her, skilled workmen have built her, the best officers and crew the greatest British line could provide are taking her across the Atlantic. But a transatlantic liner belongs in spirit to the two sides of the ocean almost equally. Americans will be as eager to see the Queen Mary and to travel in her as the sightseers at Glasgow and Southampton and the fortunate passengers whom she carries on her first crossing. No ship could have a higher destiny than to link the two nations and symbolise their common interests and mutual sympathies.
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