RMS QUEEN ELIZABETH 2 (QE2), 293,5m/ 65.863gt/ 28,5kn; 04/1969 completed by John Brown & Co., Clydebank, for Cunard Line, Liverpool; 12/05/1982 requisitioned by government for Falklands war as a troop transport, she started sail for St. George with 3.000 troops onboard. 11/06/1962 she arrived safely back in Southampton; 10/1986 starts in Germany on the conversion from steam to diesel engines; 07/08/1992 hits uncharted rocks off Vineyard Sound, Massachusetts; 1996 following the sale of the Trafalgar House to Kvaerner, Cunard Line ownership was transferred to Norwegian shipbuilding company; 06/1998 Kvaerner sell Cunard Line to the American owned Carnival Corporation & plc; 04/2004 QE2 completed a tandem crossing of the Atlantic with new QM2; 27/11/2008 QE2 was officially handed over from Cunard Line to new ownership Nakheel and berthed presently in port Rashid, Dubai, as and floating hotel.
Seen in Biscay Sea in 1986. Photo taken by captain D. S. Pyatt, master of container vessel COMMODORE ENTERPRISE in transit Portsmouth/ Lisbon. |
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