S.S. Seawise University, ex RMS Queen Elizabeth

[Stowaway2k]

Model, SS Seawise University

[Peter Mugridge]

Nice model; where is it?  The palms outside the windows suggest it's not in the UK!

[Stowaway2k]

 QUEEN ELIZABETH bell

[Stowaway2k]

Artifacts recovered from the wreck

[Stowaway2k]

Cutlery recovered from the wreck, in a presentation box

[Peter Mugridge]

I am guessing now that this is a Hong Kong museum?

Very good collection of artefacts from the looks of it.

[Stowaway2k]

Parker pen, one of 5000 fashioned from the wreck of the former RMS Queen Elizabeth

[Stowaway2k]

Hi Peter,

These items can be found at the C.Y. Tung Maritime Museum, Jiaotong University, Shanghai China

[Twynkle]

These things from on board are interesting - and thanks so much for showing them to us.
Did you get to the CY Maritime University?
Kicking myself here(!!) - as had we known this, this time last year,
whilst visiting with QM2, it would have been possible to reach there on our day in Shanghai.

If I remember correctly, there's also a small bell from RMS Queen Elizabeth on mv Queen Elizabeth,
I guess this one would be from either her wheelhouse, or foredeck...?

[Michael Gallagher]

The QE Bell on QE is from the Engine Room.

[Lynda Bradford]

Love the models of the ship.  Is there any information on who built them and when they were built.  

[Michael Gallagher]

The model is interesting as it does not feature the 1965 addition of the swimming pool aft and superstructure changes. It would have dome if it was built as Seawise University. So it looks like it's an original (pre 1965) model of QE renamed and repainted.

[Stowaway2k]

The model is interesting as it does not feature the 1965 addition of the swimming pool aft and superstructure changes. It would have dome if it was built as Seawise University. So it looks like it's an original (pre 1965) model of QE renamed and repainted.

You're right.   My first impression that this is a travel agent model dressed up in a white frock.  The model lacks a lot of detail, and I was disappointed to see that it doesn't include the obviously-not-there pool.   That said, they did a very good job dressing the model as Seawise University, it's not just some slap-dash job.

it is painted in what looks like the wrong colours, although that may just be the effect of the lighting conditions. The Hull should be White where as it looks almost a grey colour.

It is white, I failed to adjust my camera for these lighting conditions.

[Stowaway2k]

These things from on board are interesting - and thanks so much for showing them to us.
Did you get to the CY Maritime University?
Kicking myself here(!!) - as had we known this, this time last year,
whilst visiting with QM2, it would have been possible to reach there on our day in Shanghai.

Hi
With only one day in Shanghai, there are far better things to do than to seek out this small musuem.  It would have been more trouble than it's worth.
Don't sweat it.   

[rmeneses]

With regards to the anchors being brass colored, the Bassett-Lowke builder's model of the original Queen Mary (now at the South Street Seaport Museum) and this model of the original Queen Elizabeth have a lot of fittings that are polished brass that were not polished brass on the actual ship...artistic liberty?

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