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You are so right. Thank God, though, that they at least designed the
new Queen Mary to transAtlantic standards. Someone at Cunard most
have a bit of institutional memory. Interestingly Cunard absorbed the
White Star Line which had built the "Titantic."

(Big snip)

Hanging on my wall at this very moment is an official travel-bureau Cunard
Line picture of the last of the White Star ships, the M.V. Britannic. The
funnel colors are buff and black though the identity is "Cunard MV
Britannic." The earlier Britannic was a sister ship of the Titanic, which
had been converted to a hospital ship in World War I and was sunk in the
Adriatic, I believe, by A. a mine, B. a torpedo or C. a coal explosion. I
crossed the Atlantic on the MV Britannic in 1947.

The Michelangelo and her sister ship had no hull openings below the main
deck, very unusual but a huge safety factor. Outside cabains below the main
deck were thus nothing special. Didn't help Andrea Doria, though.

My most interesting crossing was on the US Lines SS President Roosevelt in
1939. This was a strange looking ship with a two-island superstructure. The
crossing was in late October 1939 from Cobh to New York. WWII was on but the
US was neutral. The ship had US Lines in huge letters on the hull with
American flags also painted and floodlit at night. Considering the the first
U-boat sinking of WWII was of the Cunard liner Athenia, a wise precaution.

Check out thisd website: http://www.greatoceanliners.net/index2.html