Let’s Play “Name That Propeller”!

Posted on November 18th, 2009 8:31am by Wick Allison
Filed under Celebrity

Old Parkland propellerHint #1: The thing weighs 20 tons.

Hint #2: It once belonged to the Cunard Line.

Hint #3: Of a set of four, one is at the bottom of the ocean, one was salvaged for scrap, one is part of a memorial in Ireland, and the one pictured now rests behind the main building at Old Parkland on Maple Avenue.

Okay, Dallas history buffs, show your stuff.  

(Contest rules: Employees of Harlan Crow, friends of Harlan Crow, partners of Harlan Crow, relatives of Harlan Crow, anyone who has ever been to Harlan Crow’s house, and anyone who has ever asked Harlan Crow for money are not eligible to enter.)

26 comments

  1. Lusitania?

    @ 8:38 am on November 18, 2009

  2. One of the Lusitania Propellers?

    @ 8:39 am on November 18, 2009

  3. RMS Lusitania

    @ 8:44 am on November 18, 2009

  4. Too easy. Titanic prop.

    @ 8:44 am on November 18, 2009

  5. titanic propeller? that’s the cunard line.

    @ 8:44 am on November 18, 2009

  6. Lusitania

    @ 8:50 am on November 18, 2009

  7. Could be from the Lusitania, but isn’t the memorial with the propeller in Liverpool?

    @ 9:11 am on November 18, 2009

  8. contest rules exclude basically the city of dallas… maybe someone in fort worth?

    @ 9:16 am on November 18, 2009

  9. Hmm. I would say it belonged to the Lusitania, but one of its propellers is in Liverpool, not Ireland.

    @ 9:16 am on November 18, 2009

  10. The Carpathia?

    @ 9:23 am on November 18, 2009

  11. The Love Boat? The African Queen? One of the boats from the old Six Flags River Ride? The Good Ship Lollipop? Multiple guesses disqualifies me, huh?

    @ 9:41 am on November 18, 2009

  12. I am going to guess the Queen Elizabeth…it came to an end in Hong Kong harbor after a fire and was scrapped (anyone remember the James Bond movie The Man with the Golden Gun?). FYI, per Wikepedia, the ship was not named for the daughter of Henry VIII.

    @ 9:49 am on November 18, 2009

  13. Wonkatania

    The other propeller is in Gene Wilder’s backyard.

    @ 9:50 am on November 18, 2009

  14. Maersk Alabama?

    @ 10:14 am on November 18, 2009

  15. I’m, guessing the Queen Mary. Funny, I can’t remember the Cunard Line sailing the Trinity River……..

    @ 11:13 am on November 18, 2009

  16. RMS Lusitania

    @ 12:34 pm on November 18, 2009

  17. Lusitania..not that hard.

    @ 12:49 pm on November 18, 2009

  18. @Lakewoody: It was supposed to be hard? Dang.

    @ 1:20 pm on November 18, 2009

  19. Looks like the same one I saw in a California tank museum a few years ago. If I recall, the Lusitania had it’s screws damaged and replaced before it was sunk.

    @ 1:48 pm on November 18, 2009

  20. Lusitania. Very Cool! Didn’t know there was a Dallas connection.
    When is round two of “Name that Propeller”?

    @ 2:27 pm on November 18, 2009

  21. The Minnow?

    @ 2:58 pm on November 18, 2009

  22. Well, I’m out.

    @ 5:11 pm on November 18, 2009

  23. So how did it end up behind Parkland?

    @ 9:32 am on November 19, 2009

  24. my yacht?

    @ 4:06 pm on November 28, 2009

  25. Bill did see it at a California tank musuem a few years ago. It was displayed their until early November when it ended up in your part of the country.

    @ 9:09 pm on December 13, 2009

  26. Lusitania for sure.

    @ 2:18 pm on December 22, 2009

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