This year marks the 75th anniversary of the RMS Queen Mary's maiden voyage, when she set sail from Southampton, England to Cherbourg, France to New York for a five-day voyage in 1936.

BBC: A ghostly visit on the RMS Queen Mary hotel

About 500 passengers on a ferry from Ireland to France spent the night anchored off Cherbourg in north-west France after the vessel failed to dock.

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