2-715-420 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Workers leaving the shipyards after construction of 'Cunarder 534' was suspended, Clydebank, Scotland, December 1931, (1935). Work on the Cunard ocean liner 'Hull Number 534' was halted because of economic conditions during the Great Depression (or Great Slump). The ship, which was to become the RMS 'Queen Mary', was eventually launched in 1934. From "The Silver Jubilee Book - The Story of 25 Eventful Years in Pictures". [Odhams Press Ltd., London, 1935]