QUEEN ELIZABETH 



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QUEENSBERRY 



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Queen Elizabeth. British 

 battleship, nameship of a class, and 

 fleet flagship of the Grand Fleet 

 during part of the Great War, 

 1917-18. She had previously been 

 flagship successively of Vice-Ad- 

 miral Carden and Vice- Admiral de 

 Robeck at the Dardanelles, 1915. 



The Queen Elizabeth was built 

 at Portsmouth Dockyard and 

 joined the active list of the fleet 

 Dec. 22, 1914. The , 

 first British war- 

 ship to carry 15-in. 

 guns and to be 

 driven entirely by 

 oil fuel, she is 

 650 ft. long, 92 ft. 

 in beam, displaces 

 27,500 tons, and 

 has a speed of 25 

 knots. In her fuel 

 bunkers 4,000 tons 

 of oil can be car 

 ried. Her arm- 

 oured belt is 13 J 

 ins. thick ; her guns 

 and conning tower 

 are protected by 

 13J ins. armour 

 plating, and her protective deck is 

 2 ins. thick. She carries eight 

 15-in., twelve 6-in.., and four 3-in. 

 guns, and five submerged torpedo 

 tubes. The Queen Elizabeth was 

 fitted with a very powerful wireless 

 installation and with a complete 

 plant for taking cinema films and 



consort. Henry III confirmed its 

 gift by Richard, earl of Cornwall, 

 to the city in exchange for a rent 

 of 50 per annum. Queenhithe, 

 known as Cornhithe in the 12th 

 century, was the site of London's 

 first fish market. The 12th cen- 

 tury church of S. Michael, known 

 as S. Michael-de-Cornhith and 

 S. Michael ad Ripam, was re- 

 stored in 1624, burnt 1666, rebuilt 

 by Wren, 1670-83, and demolished 

 in 1876, when the parish was 

 united with' that of S. James, 

 Garlickhithe. The gilded vane on 



H.M.S. Queen Elizabeth, flagship of Admiral Beatty 

 when the German fleet surrendered 



the rectory, representing a grain- 

 ship, was taken from the old 

 church. Queenhithe gives its 

 name to one of the city wards. 



Queen Mab. Philosophical 

 poem by Shelley. It was first pub- 

 lished in 1813; parts of it the 

 poet altered and revised hi 1816 as 



for carrying out all other kinds of The Daemon of the World. Writ- 



photography. 



It was aboard the Queen Eliza- 

 beth that the surrender of the 

 German Fleet was arranged. She 

 led the Allied Fleet on the day the 

 actual surrender took place, and it 

 was in her after-cabin that Rear- 

 Admiral von Reuter made the final 

 act of submission to Sir David 

 Beatty after the German Fleet had 

 anchored off May Island. Sister 

 ships to the Queen Elizabeth are 

 the Barham, Malaya, Valiant, and 

 Warspite. Owing to her being in 

 dock at the time, the Queen Eliza- 

 beth was the only battleship of her 

 class that did not take part hi the 

 battle of Jutland. 



Queenhithe (Mid. E. hithe, 

 haven). London street and dock. 

 Early in the 10th century it be- 

 longed to a Saxon, Ethedred. In 

 the time of Stephen the property 

 of the priory of Holy Trinity, 

 Aldgate, subject to certain grants 

 to S. Katharine's hospital and 

 other charities, it became in the 

 reign of Elizabeth the chief water 

 gate of the city, and the tolls levied 

 on corn, etc., landed here formed 

 part of the revenue of queens 



ten when the poet was but eighteen, 

 it shows all his early command of 

 poetic language and rhythm in its 

 part regular, part irregular, blank 

 verse, and expresses strongly the 

 views of a youthful rebel against 

 accepted religious beliefs. See Mab. 



Queen Mary. British battle 

 cruiser, of the Lion (q.v.) type, 

 sunk by gunfire at Jutland, 1916. 

 Completed in 1913, her details 

 were : length 720 ft., beam 88 ft., 

 displacement 27,000 tons, designed 

 engine power 75,000 h.p., and speed 

 27 knots. She carried eight 13-in., 

 and sixteen 4-in. guns. Ten-in. 

 plating protected her heavy guns, 

 her armoured belt was 9f ins., and 

 her armoured deck 3 ins. thick. 

 She was present at the battle of 

 Heligoland Bight, Aug., 1914. 



Queen Mary Land. Coastal 

 tract of Antarctica. It lies E. of 

 Kaiser Wilhelm II Land (q.v.), and 

 is bounded by Davis Sea and 

 Shackleton Shelf, and holds Den- 

 man and Northcliffe glaciers. Its 

 coast line touches the Antarctic 

 Circle. It was explored by the 

 Mawson Australasian expedition 

 of 1911-14. 



Queen Mary's Needlework 

 Guild. British organization set up 

 in 1914 to arrange the provision of 

 garments for the sick and wounded, 

 comforts for men on service, and 

 clothes for the poor. The queen 

 saw at an early stage in the war 

 that much energy was likely to be 

 dissipated on useless sewing, and 

 that amateur needlewomen might 

 be taking much needed work from 

 working women. Under a small 

 committee measures were taken to 

 see that the voluntary work did 

 not interfere with ordinary em- 

 ployment, arrangements Were made 

 that there should be no overlap- 

 ping, and eventually workrooms 

 were set up where unemployed 

 women could be employed. Friary 

 Court, St. James's Palace, became 

 a great clearing house for hospital 

 requisites and soldiers' comforts. 

 In the first year of the war the 

 distribution of garments varied 

 from 21,000 to 50,000 a week. 



Queen's, AND QUEEN'S OWN. 

 Prefix given to a number of regi- 

 ments in the British army. The 

 Queen's is the popular designation 

 of the Royal West Surrey regi- 

 ment (see West Surrey Regt.), 

 and the 16th Lancers. Queen's 

 Own is a designation used in the 

 titles of the following : 4th, 7th 

 Hussars, Cameron Highlanders. 

 The 9th Lancers is officially the 

 9th (Queen's Royal) Lancers. See 

 Hussars; Lancers. 



Queens. Bor. of New York 

 City, U.S.A. It includes Long Is- 

 land City, Jamaica, Newtown, 

 part of Hempstead, and several 

 islands in Jamaica Bay. Important 

 industries are carried on in Long 

 Island City. It was constituted 

 a borough, Jan. 1, 1898. Its area is 

 103 sq. m. Pop. 379,750. See New 

 York. 



Queensberry, MARQUESS OF. 

 Scottish title held by the family of 

 Douglas since 1682. In 1633 Sir 

 William Douglas, lord of Drum- 

 lanrig, was created earl of Queens- 

 berry ; he had been a baron and a 

 viscount since 1628. His grandson, 

 William, the 3rd earl, was made a 

 marquess in 1682 and a duke in 

 1683. He was succeeded in 1695 

 by his son James, who was made 

 duke of Dover and marquess of 

 Beverley in 1708. When James 

 died in 1711 his titles passed by 

 special remainder to his second 

 son, Charles, the eldest being an 

 imbecile. Charles died in 1778, 

 when the English titles became ex- 

 tinct, but the Scottish ones and the 

 estates passed to William Douglas, 

 earl of March, a descendant of the 

 1st duke. This strange being, old 

 Q, died in 1810, when the titles 

 were separated. The dukedom, 

 and with it the estates, passed to 



