Queen Eliizabeth...............Suez

[Don Rafferty]

The Queen Elizabeth is going through the Suez today and my attempts to get the 'bridge cam' to work have failed, has anyone got a working link, cheers Don.

[Ray McCerery]

Just Google QE location/web cam. Its working for me.

Ray

[Doc Vernon]

Best i can get is here Cheers

Current position M/S Queen Elizabeth Ship's position

[Don Rafferty]

Thank you both, Ray and Doc............Doc's one is working fine

[Captain Kong]

Thanks for the link Vernon,I wondered where she had got to, It is seven weeks since I left her in Sydney,
She is approaching the big bridge that runs across the Canal, built by the Japanese.
Cheers
Brian.

[Don Rafferty]

Somebodies got something wrong, they've just left Port Said!!.............and they wont get there on 315deg's



'Remaining distance to Port Said: 2.71 nm (5.02 km)
Traveled distance since Dubai: 3,226.11 nm (5,974.76 km)
Speed: 10.4 kn (19.3 km/h)
Course: 315°'

Some family joined her in Singapore.

[Denis O'Shea]

Hi Capt Kong, Having spent 18 months in Egypt at Kabret Point and sailed thro the canal for many years later I do not remember a bridge across the canal, but my last trip was in 1975. Have I missed something.
Rgds Denis

[Captain Kong]

Yes there is a huge bridge and highway across the Canal now, it must be a couple of hundred feet high, I went through in 2005, It had a Japanese flag alongside the Egyptian flag on top so I assume the Japs built it.
It showed up very clear on the sattelite picture as the QE was approaching.
I have a photo somewhere, I will post it if I can find it.

[Denis O'Shea]

Hi Capt Kong, thanks for the info about the bridge, it seems a huge task to build such a thing, but I am glad my days of transitting the canal are over. You appear to have had a very varied career at sea and your knowledge is a very welcome to the site. As you live not too far from myself perhaps we could meet up for a pint, onlyh one for i will be driving. Rgds Denis