Survivors
Of the pre-war Ocean Liners, two survive today. The RMS Queen Mary was preserved as a hotel and museum in Long Beach, California, her retirement in 1967. The other is the Japanese ocean liner Hikawa Maru, preserved in Japan as a museum ship in 1961. Other than the RMS Queen Mary 2, remaining modern ocean liners are: The United States, currently laid up in Philadelphia, the Queen Elizabeth 2, which is to be converted into a floating hotel in Dubai, the Rotterdam now moored in Rotterdam as a museum/hotel., the Veronica, (former S.S Kungsholm) which was converted into a floating hotel in Duqm Oman, and the MS Marco Polo (former MS Alexandr Pushkin) which is currently used for cruising.
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Famous quotes containing the word survivors:
“I want to celebrate these elms which have been spared by the plague, these survivors of a once flourishing tribe commemorated by all the Elm Streets in America. But to celebrate them is to be silent about the people who sit and sleep underneath them, the homeless poor who are hauled away by the city like trash, except it has no place to dump them. To speak of one thing is to suppress another.”
—Lisel Mueller (b. 1924)
“I believe that all the survivors are mad. One time or another their madness will explode. You cannot absorb that much madness and not be influenced by it. That is why the children of survivors are so tragic. I see them in school. They don’t know how to handle their parents. They see that their parents are traumatized: they scream and don’t react normally.”
—Elie Wiesel (b. 1928)