Queen Elizabeth

[Arron]

Drove down to Southampton this past Sunday to catch a ferry down to Isle of Wight. While we was there, the Queen Elizabeth 2 was sat there. It was getting ready to embark on her first journey. The queen smashed the bottle on it or something. You can get more info on this website: http://www.cunard.co.uk/

Well I got a few pictures of the £404 million beaut. Not the best, but just look at the size...



The camera was only 4.1 million pixels, so the quality probably isn't as good as a 12 mp.

edit. title error lmao

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[Phil]

That's actually one massive ship. What's it pupose? Is it for getting pople from A to B or is it a cruise ship?

[Arron]

It's a voyage I think.

[ChickenFaces]

Whoa dang, that's a big boat

I've never been on a large boat but I really want to!

[Arron]

The first sailing sold out in 20 minutes. This is no place for the poor..

[-:Undertaker:-]

Interesting pictures, although it is sad that the ship was built in Italy and not Great Britain - the former top maritime nation of the world.

[Arron]

italy? i thought it was France? if not nvm

[Apple]

I don't really like the look of it at all, it has nothing on the Queen Mary.

[Arron]

Wednesday 27th October. I just saw an advert on telly about the construction of the QE2. Worth watching on Discovery Channel

[Mathew]

Massive ships like this really do amaze me. It's simply astonishing how a great big lump of metal like this can float. Yes it's a cruise ship for holidays rather than a form of transport. Nice bit of service history (despite the lack of paragraphing!) from Wikipedia; the world cruise must be brilliant.

On Monday October 4th 2010 Queen Elizabeth was formally handed over to Cunard. Queen Elizabeth sailed on her maiden voyage from Southampton on Tuesday October 12th 2010, following a naming ceremony by the monarch on Monday 11th October 2010. Her maiden voyage will include calls at the Spanish port of Vigo before heading for Lisbon, Cadiz, Gran Canaria, Tenerife, La Palma and Madeira. Afterwards the ship will make several European cruises until she departs on her first World Cruise leaving Southampton on January 5th 2011, stopping at New York, Fort Lauderdale, Aruba and Limon before transiting the Panama Canal. She will then call at Acapulco, Cabo San Lucas and Los Angeles before crossing the Pacific Ocean to Lahaina, Honolulu, Apia, Pago Pago, Fiji, Bay of Islands, Auckland, Wellington, Sydney, Melbourne, Perth, Bali, Hong Kong, Nha Trang, Ho Chi Minh City, Ko Samui, Langkawi, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Penang, before crossing the Indian Ocean westbound for Kochi, Mumbai and Muscat. Sailing westbound again across the Arabian Sea before passing through the Strait of Hormuz to call at Dubai in the Persian Gulf, where the Queen Elizabeth will dock close to her predeccesor Queen Elizabeth 2 for the first time. After calling at Salalah and Aqaba the ship will transit the Suez Canal. Westbound Mediterranean calls will be at Athens and Rome, before passing through the Strait of Gibraltar to make a final call at Lisbon on the Atlantic coast of Portugal before returning to Southampton. The voyage is expected to take 103 days. She will then make many European cruises before September 2011 when she is expected to make her maiden Round-the-British-Isles cruise departing Southampton on the 2nd of September 2011 making her way to Edinburgh, Invergordon for Inverness, Greenock for Glasgow, Liverpool, Dublin, Cork and St Peter Port in Guernsey before returning to Southampton. Then she will make various other European cruises until departing for a Caribbean cruise in November and December 2011. She will make a European debut January 2012 and it is not known whether she will take part in a world voyage for 2012 as of yet.

The QE2 has retired now and serves as a hotel in Dubai if I'm not mistaken.

This ship was indeed built in Italy at the legendary Fincantieri ship builders (which is conveniently where the two best looking ships were made - the Disney Magic and the Disney Wonder, which we have been on 3 and 2 times respectively).