QE2 RIP

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Posted: Sun Sep 16, 2007 6:26 pm

I was in Whitby today, when the QE2 came past on its farewell tour around the UK. It is off to Dubai to become a floating hotel, as did the original Queen mary, which I saw in Long Beach last year. No doubt it will also have its engines ripped out and be concreted into the harbour, shame.

At least it won't be going to India for scrap. I'm so old I remember watching it being launched, live on TV.

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Master of Master Baiters Joined: 26 Aug 2006 Posts: 577

It's a beauty. I sailed on the QE1 a longgg time ago. Great classic designs - not like the floating cities today.

Posted: Sun Sep 16, 2007 11:12 pm

Roycropper wrote:

I'm so old I remember watching it being launched, live on TV.

Me too

She visited Melbourne a couple of years ago and I vividly remember seeing her sailing past at sunset where she was perfectly silhouetted (sp?) against the western sky on a mirror flat bay. We get a lot of those mega cruise ships here, more like floating apartment blocks and equally ugly, and the QE2 looked so elegant (and small) by comparison. I'm sure she will be very well looked after in Dubai, unlike the QE1 that currently sits on the bottom of Hong Kong harbour.