Liverpool Echo | Cunard cruise liner QE2 'left to rot' after being sold to Dubai Liverpool Echo “Unless something is done soon, she will end up being scrapped which would be a terrible waste of such an iconic ship.” The Queen launched the QE2 in 1967. After the ocean liner went into service in 1969, she made at least 26 round-the-world voyages. |
Saturday, May 23, 2015
Cunard cruise liner QE2 'left to rot' after being sold to Dubai - Liverpool Echo
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Friday, May 22, 2015
Red Arrows take to the skies for Three Queens visit - Wirral Globe
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Wirral Globe | Red Arrows take to the skies for Three Queens visit Wirral Globe 2.10pm: Queen Mary 2 will depart and Queen Elizabeth will take up berth at Cruise Terminal, while the Queen Victoria will remain mid river. 10pm: Amazing projections 10.30pm: Firework display, after which the Queen Elizabeth leaves the city and Queen ... |
Thursday, May 21, 2015
A glimpse of the golden age of steamship travel: The Three Queens of Cunard ... - Daily Mail
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Daily Mail | A glimpse of the golden age of steamship travel: The Three Queens of Cunard ... Daily Mail The Queen Victoria, Queen Elizabeth and and the Queen Mary 2 will line up on the waterfront in the famous ship-building city for the landmark year which celebration of Cunard's first Atlantic crossing. Cunard's .... The £460million Queen Mary 2 is the only major ocean liner built since the Queen Elizabeth 2 (QE2), which was decommissioned in 2008, and today it docked on the Clyde, were it was built, as part of the ceremonial trip. ... Night cruise: The Queen Mary 2 arrives into Greenock on the Clyde last night on. |
In pictures: Queen Mary 2, the world's biggest ocean liner, sails up Clyde at ... - Herald Scotland
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Herald Scotland | In pictures: Queen Mary 2, the world's biggest ocean liner, sails up Clyde at ... Herald Scotland The Clyde has produced some of the most famous ship ever to go to sea and many of those have been Cunarders: Britannia, Hibernia, Russia, Servia, Lucania, Campania, Lusitania, Aquitania, Queen Mary, Queen Elizabeth, Caronia and Queen Elizabeth 2. |
Sunday, May 17, 2015
Cunard: The Man and His Company - The Maritime Executive
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The Maritime Executive | Cunard: The Man and His Company The Maritime Executive And so Queen Elizabeth 2, a true transatlantic liner with a service speed of 28.5 knots and a 1.5 inch thick hull, but which, with its ability to navigate both Panama and Suez, could be a cruise ship too, was launched by the Queen in 1967. QE2 would defy the ... |
Friday, May 15, 2015
Thousands expected on Wirral side of Mersey to watch arrival of the Three Queens - Wirral Globe
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Wirral Globe | Thousands expected on Wirral side of Mersey to watch arrival of the Three Queens Wirral Globe TENS of thousands of visitors are expected to converge along the Wirral side of the Mersey over the Bank Holiday weekend to watch Cunard's three flagship cruise liners sail down the river. The Three Queens - Queen Elizabeth, Queen Victoria and Queen ... |
Sunday, May 3, 2015
THREE QUEENS: Cunard loved by the rich and famous - Daily Echo
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Daily Echo | THREE QUEENS: Cunard loved by the rich and famous Daily Echo ROYALTY, Hollywood stars, world leaders, millionaires, politicians, captains of industry, television personalities – the list of those who have travelled with Cunard over the decades is a collection of famous names that can never be matched by any other ... |
Friday, May 1, 2015
Cunnard Celebrates 175 Years of Innovation - The Maritime Executive
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The Maritime Executive | Cunnard Celebrates 175 Years of Innovation The Maritime Executive Cruise line Cunnard is celebrating its 175 anniversary this year. Despite Samuel Cunard's initial brave gamble to ... The first shore to ship transatlantic television transmission occurred on March 7, 1928 on Berengaria while the first live TV transmission from a ship at sea took place from QE2 in July 1986. QE2 was the first ship to offer a Computer Learning Centre ... The first liner to cross the Atlantic in under five days was Lusitania which left Liverpool on 5 October 1907. She completed the voyage from Daunts Rock to ... |
Cunard releases vintage posters showcasing days of transatlantic voyages - Daily Mail
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Daily Mail | Cunard releases vintage posters showcasing days of transatlantic voyages Daily Mail ... advertising campaigns using posters first became vital to Cunard's popularity. Before the age of television, these images would be used to show the scale of the ship that was about to launch. ... Since then, the cruise liner has changed dramatically and their three big ships from 1921, the Mauretania, the Berengaria, and the Aquitania, would be dwarfed by their modern line up of the Queen Mary 2, the Queen Victoria and the Queen Elizabeth. Cunard favoured two artists in particular when it came to designing their ... |
Sunday, March 29, 2015
Cunard Line historian sails into Adelaide on Queen Mary 2 voyage - Yahoo7 News
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Yahoo7 News | Cunard Line historian sails into Adelaide on Queen Mary 2 voyage Yahoo7 News "There are a couple of cruise ships in the Caribbean that are [now] a little bit bigger than Queen Mary 2, but she is still the largest of this type of ship, that can undertake the long voyages - particularly on the trans-Atlantic - the classic voyage from Southampton ... |
Cunard Line historian sails into Adelaide on Queen Mary 2 voyage - ABC Online
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ABC Online | Cunard Line historian sails into Adelaide on Queen Mary 2 voyage ABC Online Mr Frame told 891 ABC Adelaide his love of majestic cruise liners stemmed from a special trip he made two decades ago. "When I was 11 years old, I sailed on the QE2 [Queen Elizabeth 2] and just something about that ship, the atmosphere, the history on ... |
Tuesday, March 24, 2015
Photos reveal life on board Cunard ships as cruise line celebrates 175 years - Daily Mail
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Daily Mail | Photos reveal life on board Cunard ships as cruise line celebrates 175 years Daily Mail QE2 was the first ship to have an email address. QE2 hosted the world's first Trivial Pursuit cruise. QE2 became the world's largest hospital ship during the Falklands Conflict in 1982. When QE2 arrived in Liverpool for the first time on July 24, 1990 more than a ... |
Tuesday, March 17, 2015
PHOTOS: The most famous cruise line on the high seas is turning 175 - Business Insider Australia
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PHOTOS: The most famous cruise line on the high seas is turning 175 Business Insider Australia An Australian photographer has captured life aboard some of the world's greatest cruise liners. Sydney-based James Morgan had just 175 hours last year to capture Cunard's Queen Mary 2, Queen Victoria and Queen Elizabeth across the oceans for an ... |
Thursday, March 12, 2015
What do you do with an old ocean liner? - BBC News
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BBC News | What do you do with an old ocean liner? BBC News The latest P&O "superliner" Britannia has been officially named by the Queen but what happens after cruise liners are past their sell-by date? In their heyday ocean ... SS United States - flagship of the United States Line - won the Blue Riband for the fastest transatlantic crossing on her maiden voyage in 1952 - a record the ship holds to this day. However, like her rival ... John Chillingworth, managing director of London QE2, is confident the London plan is the most viable option for the liner. He explained that work is ... |
Wednesday, March 11, 2015
MIPIM 2015: Peel Logistics confirms next wave of projects - Place North West
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Place North West | MIPIM 2015: Peel Logistics confirms next wave of projects Place North West Peel has submitted planning applications for a 280,000 sq ft pre-let logistics warehouse at Port Salford and a £50m oil refinery at QE2 Dock in Eastham at the entrance to the Manchester Ship Canal. The announcements were made during Peel's update on ... |
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