Monday, December 29, 2014

Queen Mary 2 cruise to New York is a throwback to a grander time - Mirror.co.uk

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Queen Mary 2 cruise to New York is a throwback to a grander time
Mirror.co.uk
But then the Queen Mary 2 is no ordinary cruise ship. Some claim it's the only true ocean liner afloat. Prince Philip was aboard when Queen Elizabeth 2 left the UK for the final time back in November 2008, heading for retirement in Dubai (the ship, that is, not ...

Tuesday, December 23, 2014

Success in Midlife and Afterlife: At Sea with PD James - Huffington Post

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Success in Midlife and Afterlife: At Sea with PD James
Huffington Post
We had invited Levenger customers to join me on an Authors' Cruise, and they had accepted. Or at least, 25 of ... It showed how Levenger products came to be, and then invited customers (and other guests aboard ship who might be bored with shuffleboard) to guess which of those products became winners and which, dogs. ... For 3,000 nautical miles, our accidental family of five dined in elegance and discussed in intimacy, while the hull of the QE2 parted the waters of the North Atlantic at its customary 28.5 knots.

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Tuesday, December 2, 2014

Majestic liner left to rot in dockyard - Independent Online

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Majestic liner left to rot in dockyard
Independent Online
Louis de Sousa, 43, of Bitzen, Germany, who was a bartender on the QE2 for nine years in the 1990s and received these photos of her from workers he befriended on Facebook, said: “The ship is an icon, but she's just sitting there rotting. “It would have been ...

Once majestic liner left to rot in dockyard - Independent Online

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Once majestic liner left to rot in dockyard
Independent Online
Louis de Sousa, 43, of Bitzen, Germany, who was a bartender on the QE2 for nine years in the 1990s and received these photos of her from workers he befriended on Facebook, said: “The ship is an icon, but she's just sitting there rotting. “It would have been ...

Monday, December 1, 2014

QE2 remains stuck in Dubai dockyard - TTG Digital

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QE2 remains stuck in Dubai dockyard
TTG Digital
The ship, which was flagship of the Cunard fleet for 40 years, has been stuck in Dubai for six years after plans to turn it into a floating hotel have failed to go ahead. The QE2 had been due to sail to Zhoushan in China in October 2013 to become a waterfront ...

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