Queen Elizabeth 2 Site

[aussie]

Anyone who worked on QE2 or anyone who has an interest in her there is a new site which has been set up by one of her ex crew. Some great pics and stories. Check it out at www.qe2-the-legend-com. Cheers Aussie

http://www.qe2-the-legend.com/

Aussie
As your Link did not work,i have Edited and put this in!
A nice site indeed with loads of info and Pics!
Thanks
Vernon

[Glenn Baker]

She is certainly a Grand old Lady to me the Best looking Liner of our times. Glenn Baker Australia

[alf corbyn]

i bought a brand new badge of the Q E still on a card with cunard and the flag on it. i was very surprised when i found it was the original Q E . must be a collectors item as it looks brand new. alf

[Captain Kong]

The QE2 is still alongside in Dubai as of 11 June this year. Two years and eightmonths later.
She has a crew of 38 supplied by V-SHIPS. She has nine diesel engines, one is in use to maintain the electricity, and air conditioning throughout the ship.
All the plans Nahkeel had for altering the ship have been cancelled or put on hold. He was hit badly in the Financial Crisis, problalbly down to his last 100,000,000.

I sailed on several of her world cruises and others on the New York run.
A magnificent ship that should have been moored in a lagoon like the old Queen Mary in Long Beach, at the Pier Head opposite the Cunard Building where she was designed on the top floor.

That would have created a thousand jobs or more and a superb tourist attraction. I suggested that to the MD of Cunard, Carol Marlow but the deal had been made with Nahkeel in Dubai, for 50 million pounds.
She had more than 50, million pounds of artifacts on board. Everything had to be left behind when it was handed over, not one knife or fork had to be removed. she went as is.. What a waste.
Many of our ex` Liverpool`celebs could have bought it. peanuts to them.
She would have made a lot of money lying in Liverpool. .
All the lower decks could have been converted to Offices of local companiees, A superb business address.
another deck could have been used by the University, other decks could have been used as a Conference Centre instead of spending millions on new building on the Kings Dock. Restaurants and Bars could have been put to good use with the theatres and a Wedding Chapel would have encouraged a lot of the young ladies in Liverpool to get married there. Also plenty of good luxury hotel accommodation.
And many jobs created for all that.

[Captain Kong]

I was just repeating what the Commodore told me when he arrived in Dubai. He said she was sold as is with nothing to be taken off.
The anchor in Southampton was a spare one in store. The spare anchor was removed from the foredeck, during the 1996 refit.
As a seagoing ship with a full total of passengers on board, around 1750 ish, she would require all her compliment of anchors to make the voyage, including the planned, but later cancelled voyage to Cape Town.
The only items removed were items that were on loan..........
The tapestries that belonged to the Queen that were on loan, I believe they are now on Queen Victoria still on loan from HM.
The very large painting of the 1907 Mauretania that was donated to Newcastle Council when the QE2 visited the port on her last Round Britain Cruise.
The bust of the Queen that stood in the Queens Room is now on the new Queen Elizabeth.
There is some doubt about the Bells from the Aquitania and the old Franconia that were in the Officers Wardroom.
The Builders Plate has vanshed with no record of where it went.
There was a magnificent Memorial of carved wood, of the Falklands war and the men who died there, even that had to stay on board, I enquired about it and the Commodore told me it had to stay.

Here is me pretending to steer the QE2, the Quartermaster is in the far corner, ship is on `Iron Mike`.
Her last time at Pier 90 in New York in 2008
and the last time entering the Panama Canal on world cruise 2008

[Captain Kong]

I joined the QE2 in New York for the voyage to Southampton in October 1995 the voyage after she had hit the 98 foot wave, Captain Warwick was in Command then, he went on leave and Commodore John Burton Hall took command.
The foredeck of QE2 was badly dented in by the 98 foot wave, it was over the forard mooring deck which was underneath. It could have been a swimming pool when it was full of water. Several thousand tons of water had crushed it. Maybe the Starboard anchor was damaged when that great sea hit her. but again I dont know.
This was rebuilt when she went into dry dock