"Meet the Captain" photo gallery

[KEV]

Rob
How did you blag the Bridge Invite? (sorry you didn't make it too)
Rumour has it that the funnel lights did get switched on during Force 10 night one when Capt Pugwash (no offence but my wife calls anyone who 'drives' a boat be it a pedalo or The QE2 that) accidentally knocked the lightswitch whilst grabbing the helm from the 10 year old who had taken over whilst he was meeting everyone for the  Captains pics

[KEV]

PS courtesy to Bob-hope you dont mind the use of your great pic

[Isabelle Prondzynski]

As we are reminiscing about Nick Bates, here he is in 2004, on Caronia :

https://www.flickr.com/photos/prondis_in_kenya/2201561511/

I am there wearing my favourite West African dress and am holding a red shawl in my hands.

[cunardqueen]

Meeting the Captain


And this one


And one the really has pride of place goes to this photo , As a young lad on my first trip in 1986 never in my wildest dreams did l imagine the QE2 would have such a hold over me and that one day l would be eating with the crew.

To be seated here on what was probably my best cruise with great table guests enjoying the best of service on what is simply the best ship in the world, to reflect on who has gone that way before,and to think of her future  can and does bring tears to my eyes, it was for me, personally a great honour to take my seat at the Captains Table and is something l cant even begin to thank Cunard and Captain Bates for.

[Andrew W]

You know, this thing on the lady shakes hands first ....

Very funny that. I had the same thing happen to me - with Capt. McNaught - I stepped forward to shake hands with him first and he said "ah, ah, ladies first" and shook hands with my wife then me.  I remember feeling a bit embarrassed but then I am from the lower classes and don't understand things like that. Anyway, we have a nice picture but I do always think what an oik I am when I look at it !

I will post the picture but will need to scan it.

My wife after 20 years is now used to travelling around with someone with no manners and so she was not surprised.

So my question is - do they learn this in Captain's school? - I suspect it's actually quite amusing to do this to passengers (they probably count how many victims they get each evening). Possibly the ladies in question are pretty pleased to have their partner's lack of manners illustrated so plainly ?

Andrew

[Louis De Sousa]

On the bridge with Commodore Warwick,photo taken in 1997 in the middle of a Boat Drill

Louis

[Malcolm]

So my question is - do they learn this in Captain's school?

Is it the correct etiquette?  I would think it dates from Victorian times when the man would have been head of the household and would have been introduced first. The woman would then have been introduced as Mrs [Man's Christian name] Surname. 

I suspect it's actually quite amusing to do this to passengers (they probably count how many victims they get each evening).

I suspect that you're right and that is the main reason for doing it! That and the fact that the etiquette concerned is now so well forgotten nobody can correct them on it for sure

Of course when two men go up together you can have a genuine fight to see who gets there first!

[Twynkle]

Please - may I interrupt?

Hasn't it always, always been 'Ladies first'?
Through doors, sitting down to dinner, and to leave afterwards.
Captain Mac Naught has said in his midday announcement,  'QE2 always goes first'; she's a Lady too.

[Malcolm]

Hasn't it always, always been 'Ladies first'?

No - I doubt Mr Ug held the door open for Mrs Ug in prehistoric times! ( )

I wish I'd not asked about the order of precedence for men and women! I've just spent a very enjoyable half hour on the Debrett's website learning seating orders at dinner, correct forms of address, the order used by the Queen and the Lord Mayor of London walk through the City of London, etc. However there is no mention of ladies (or gentlemen) first.

I did find a section that reads:

"Certainly in a preamble to a speech, for example, at a function where a number of illustrious guests are present, it is not inevitable that the usual sequence of precedence is followed. Adjustment may need to be made in order to give due respect to a patron, president or guest of honour, and courtesy and common sense will overrule conventional good form."

and I wonder if that isn't how any variation could be justified

[Twynkle]

While you were looking at Debretts, I found this!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Columnists/Column/0,,336932,00.html

Maybe it was the general air of respect for Ladies and Gentlemen, and in my experience  - towards all those aboard her -
this was one of the main reasons that I, together with lots of us here, love QE2!

PS - Isn't it always 'Ladies and Gentlemen, pray silence for....' until there's a 'My Lord(s)' in the room?!!!
And it's always 'Your Grace...' ( a male of the species!)
And  'Your Royal Highness.....'  (could be either!)

By the way - did anyone ever make a speech on QE2?
By this I mean - anyone -  apart from Senior Officers, Carol Marlow et al)

[capt.ilc]

Good morning all,

Here just 2 out of a few pictures from the old good days. I have some more recent but those may well be more interesting...
The first from a South African Trip back in 2000, when Capt. Warwick just got the news about QM2. The second is from the World Cruise 1997 and the first Officer ball. I had the single chance to open with Capt. Bates, at the time as Staff Capt.

[highlander0108]

Meeting the Captain

And this one

And one the really has pride of place goes to this photo , As a young lad on my first trip in 1986 never in my wildest dreams did l imagine the QE2 would have such a hold over me and that one day l would be eating with the crew.

To be seated here on what was probably my best cruise with great table guests enjoying the best of service on what is simply the best ship in the world, to reflect on who has gone that way before,and to think of her future  can and does bring tears to my eyes, it was for me, personally a great honour to take my seat at the Captains Table and is something l cant even begin to thank Cunard and Captain Bates for.

Myles, we have to talk about that kilt!  Very sharp!  Why did you not have it on the final voyages?  Too much to carry?  What clan tartan is that?  I had frantically tried to get one made, as I remember you did say all true Scots should have one, and I jsut could not get a nice one made In MacLeod dress tartan in a guaranteed time before we sailed.  I settled with wearing the tartan ties.....

[eddy666]

Looking at this picture is a little bit odd.

It was back in 2002 on a very rough late december crossing (story will follow) with Captain Paul Wright as the Master of the QE2.

The subtitle can be :Funny how time slips away !!

cheers

Martin

[MiamiCunarder]

 
  You know..that's odd...tons of Cunard crossings and cruises over a span of 8 years and I never got to doing the whole "meeting the captain" pose. I do have a personal shot of me with Captain Heath on a random December crossing but it's fuzzy.
There is the one below. It was taken during a special Cunard Line shore side employee only ship gala in Ft Lauderdale just a day after QM2's maiden arrival in Jan. 2004.

Ron

[Kathy M.]

My "Meet the Captain" photo - why can't I still be 22?!