Records of the RMS Queen Elizabeth Historical Society, Virginia, United States of America

• Drawings 1989
• Historical notes 1989
• Ships particulars 1989
• Photographs of the museum in Virginia 1989

The RMS Queen Elizabeth Historical Society manages a museum dedicated to the steam ship Queen Elizabeth in Ararat, Virginia, United States of America . The RMS Queen Elizabeth Historical Society was founded in 1981  by Harold E Philpot, essentially for the purpose of preparing documentary drawings of the RMS Queen Elizabeth, built by John Brown & Co Ltd for the Cunard company, to a scale of one quarter inch equals one foot. Co-founders of the Society were as follows: Commodore Geoffrey T Marr, navigation; Staff Captain Eric Ashton-Irvine, administration; Chief Engineer R E ("Ted") Philip, engineering; Purser John Vincent Robinson, passenger relations; Donald McKellar, of John Brown & Co Ltd, Clydebank, design and draughting; Fred M Walker, Greenwich, naval architect and consultant to the Founder; and Philip Small, Wells, Somerset, art. The society is based at the home of its founder, Harold E Philpot, who has extended a former garage to accommodate a museum dedicated to the ship. In 2002, and was unclear as to whether the society was still in operation.

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Deposit: Harold E Philpot : Ararat, Virginia : 7 November 1989

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GB 248 UCS 001Records of Upper Clyde Shipbuilders Ltd, Clydebank Division (formerly John Brown & Co Ltd)

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Much of this material is copied from that held at the museum

Compiled by Jenny Bunn , Assistant Archivist, 14 February 2000

Revised by David Powell, Hub Project Archivist, 19 December 2002