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The Queen launched the ship with the words "I name this ship Queen Elizabeth the Second," [47] the normal short form of address of the monarch, Elizabeth II herself. The following day, the New York Times [48] and The Times of London printed the name as Queen Elizabeth II, the short form of written style of
On 20 February, she met her fleet-mate, Queen Elizabeth 2, also on her 2007 world cruise, in Sydney harbour. [78] This is the first time two Cunard Queens had been together in Sydney since the original Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth served as troop ships in 1941. [79]
Queen Elizabeth outbound from Southampton on her maiden voyage, 2010 Queen Elizabeth in Tallinn, 2012. MS Queen Elizabeth (QE [2]) is a cruise ship of the Vista class operated by the Cunard Line. The design is modified compared to earlier ships of the same class, and slightly larger than Queen Victoria, at 92,000 GT.
With attendant pomp and circumstance, Queen Elizabeth pressed a button to smash a bottle of 2009 Rothschild wine across the bow of the latest Cunard ship, the 2,068-passenger Queen Elizabeth, in ...
She was launched by Queen Elizabeth II on 16 April 1953, and commissioned on 11 January 1954. The ship was designed with three masts: a 133-foot (41 m) foremast, a 139-foot (42 m) mainmast, and a 118-foot (36 m) mizzenmast.
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Today in Southampton, England, the new Cunard Line ship, the third Queen Elizabeth, was named by the actual Queen Elizabeth. Built for $634 million, it's the third QE to be named for her. I was ...
Queen Elizabeth painted in wartime grey, having just transported troops to the Middle East in 1942 RMS Queen Elizabeth as a troopship during World War II They were to take the ship directly to New York, in the neutral United States, not to stop or even slow to drop off the Southampton harbour pilot who had embarked on at Clydebank, and to ...