I'm going to make this a separate topic as otherwise the more fascinating events in QE2's unique story will be 'drowned out' by them.
Please reply to this topic with any edits, which I will then incorporate before deleting your post.Thank you to everybody who put so much effort into the original topic to bring out these dates. Because the members of this forum worked out this information, it is not to be re-used without permission and a credit back to this topic. I am also going to put a page for this information on the main site.January 2 January 1969: Arrives in Southampton for the first time.
15 January 1972: Maiden call at Norfolk, Virginia, USA.19 January 2008:
Final call at Barbados, West Indies22 January 1993: Maiden call at Port Stanley, Falkland Islands
24 January 2008:
Final call at Salvador, Brazil25 January 1986: Maiden call at Callao, Peru
26 January 2008:
Final call at Rio de janeiro, Brazil29-30 January 2008:
Final call at Montevideo, UruguayFebruary 1 February 1971: Maiden call at Freeport, Bahamas
1 February 2008:
Final call at Port Stanley, Falkland Islands2 February 1998-Maiden call at Lautoka,Fiji.
3 February 2008:
Final call at Punto Arenas, Chile4 February 1979: Montevideo
5 February 1975: Maiden call at Mombasa, Kenya
6 February 2008:
Final call at Valparaiso, Chile9 February 1979: Tristan da Cunha
9 February 1983: Maiden call at Moorea, Tahiti
9 February 2002:
Final call at Port Chalmers, New Zealand11 February 1975: Maiden cal at Bombay, India
10 February 1996-Maiden call at Ambon,Indonesia.
14 February 1978: Maiden call to Auckland on St Valentine's Day!
14 February 2008:
Final call at Papeete, Tahiti18 February 1995: Maiden call at Guam18 February 2008:
Final call Nuku'lofa, Tonga19 February 2005:
Maiden and final call to Exmouth, Australia20 February 1978: Maiden call at Hobart, Tasmania
21 February 2008:
Final call at Auckland, New Zealand24 February 1978: Maiden call at Sydney, Australia
24 February 2008:
Final call at Sydney, Australia (exactly 30 years since 1st)27 February 2004:
Final call at Guam27 February 2008:
Final call at Hobart, Tasmania29 February 2008:
Final call Melbourne, AustraliaMarch 2 March 2008:
Final call Adelaide, Australia 4 March 2008:
Maiden and final call at Albany, Australia5 March 1978: Maiden call at Kobe, Japan
5 March 2008:
Final call Fremantle, Australia6 March 2007:
Final call to Yokohama, Japan*10 March 2008:
Final call at Singapore12 March 2008:
Final call at Vung Tau, Vietnam14 March 2008:
Final call at Hong Kong19 March 1975: Maiden call at Los Angeles, USA
19 March 1977: Maiden call at Nagasaki, Japan
19 March 2008:
Final call at Osaka, Japan22 March 1997: Maiden call at Dubai25 - 26 March 2008:
Final call at Honolulu30 March 2008:
Final call to Los Angeles, USAApril2 April 2008:
Final Call Acapulco5 April 2008:
Final Panama transit6 April 2008:
Final Call Cartagena, Colombia (Not Puerto Moin as Sam Warwick records)*
6 April 2008:
Final call to Puerto Moin, Costa Rica7 April 1976: Maiden call at Alexandria in Egypt
8 April 2003:
Final call at St Helena, Atlantic Ocean*8 April 2007:
Final call at Capetown, South Africa8 April 2008:
Final call at Montego Bay, Jamaica*9 April 2006:
Final (and Maiden??) call at Safaga, Egypt*10 April 2006:
Final call at Aqaba, Jordan*10 April 2008:
Final call at Port Everglades, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA*12 April 1976: Maiden call at Odessa, Russia
12 April 2007:
Final call at Walvis Bay, Namibia*16 April 1982: Maiden call to Arrecife, Lanzarote, Canary Islands*
28 April 1969: Maiden call at Lisbon, Portugal
May1 May 2007:
Final Call at St Thomas, Virgin Islands*2 May 2007:
Final call at St Kitts, West Indies*3 May 1995: First call at Plymouth as part of VE Day anniversary
3 May 2007:
Final call at Grenada, Carribean Sea*4 May 2007:
Final call at Barbados, West Indies*5 May 2007:
Final call at St Lucia, Carribean Sea*6 May 2007:
Final call at Antigua, West Indies*7 May 1969 - QE2's maiden Arrival in New York.
9 May 1975: Maiden call at Bremerhaven, Germany
10 May 2007:
Final call at Ponta Delgada, Azores*11 May 2008:
Maiden and Final call to Sami, Kefalonia*14 May 2008:
Maiden and Final call to Split, Croatia*21 May 1983: Maiden call at Genoa, Italy
24 May 1997: Maiden call at Corfu, Greece
June6 June 1973: Maiden call at Messina, Scicily
13 June 1993: Maiden call to Edinburgh
6th June 2008. maiden call at Gravdal, Lofoten Islands (and possibly last call?)
8th June 2008,
final call at Longyearbyen, SvalbardJuly 7 July 1981: Maiden call at Tromsø, Norway
8/9 July 2005 :
Final call to Hamburg, as the
intended final call on 8 December 2007 did not happen due to inclement weather.10 July 2005: Maiden call to Göteborg (Gothenburg), Sweden*
14 July 1997: Maiden call at Dún Laoghaire, Ireland
18 July 2008: Finall call to Rotterdam23 July 1981: Maiden call to Bar Harbor
23 July 1990: Maiden call to Cóbh - 60,000 people turn out
24 July 1990: Maiden call to Liverpool, Cunard's spiritual home - more than 1 million people turn out:
24 July 2008:
Maiden call (and only call) to Propriano, Corsica*25 July 1990: Maiden call to Greenock, 1st return to Clyde since 1968.
28 July 2008:
Final call to Monte Carlo, Monaco30 July 1996: Maiden call to Rostock, Germany
August1 August 1996: Maiden call at Helsinki, Finland
1 August 1998: Maiden and final call at Kirkwall, Orkney Islands5 August 1992: Maiden call at Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada
7 August 2008:
Final call to Hellesylt and Geiranger, Norway10 August 2008:
Final Call to Oslo, Norway*28 August 1988: Maiden call at Torbay, Devon, England
31 August 1991: Maiden call at Monte Carlo, France
September 2 September 1994: Maiden call at Waterford, Ireland
3 September 2005 : Maiden call St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada (anchored off Foxtrap in Conception Bay South).
Planned final call on 26 September 2008 did not take place due to unfavourable weather conditions.4 September 1995: Maiden call at Invergordon,Scotland.
5 September 1995: Maiden call at Newcastle,England.
7 September 2002: Maiden call at Civitaveccia, Italy
7 September 2008 :
Final call to Valencia*17 September 2008:
Final Call Newport Rhode Island*18 September 2008:
Final Call Boston, USA*19 September 2008:
Final Call Bar Harbor, Maine, USA*20 September 2008:
Final Call Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada*21 September 2008:
Final Call Halifax, Canada*23/24 September 2008:
Final Call Quebec, Canada*26 September 2008:
Final Call (aborted) - St Johns, Newfoundland, Canada*October1 October 1971: Maiden call at Boston, USA
1/2 October 2008:
Final call at Cóbh, Ireland3 October 2008:
Final call at Liverpool - Liverpool Cathedral Commemorative Service[/url]
4 October 2008:
Final call at Belfast (Red Arrows Fly Over to salute the ship)*
5 October 2008: Final call to Greenock & the River Clyde which gave birth to her7 October 2008:
Final call to Queensferry, and to Scottish waters11 October 1973: Maiden call to Halifax, Nova Scotia
16 October 2008: Final call to New York City20 October 1989: Maiden Call at Cadiz, Spain
22 October 1997: Maiden call at Ponta Delgada, Azores
24 October 2008
Final call Bilbao, Spain25 October 2008:
Final call in France, Le Verdon Sur Mer*26 October 2008:
Final call to St. Peter Port, Guernsey cancelled because of bad weather*29 October 1998: Maiden call to Valletta/Malta
31 October 2008:
Final call to CagliariNovember 3 November 1970: Maiden call at Luanda, Angola
3 November 2008:
The last tender port was Dubrovnik*7 November 1970: Maiden call at Durban South Africa
10 November 1970: Maiden call at Cape Town, South Africa
11 November 2008: Final departure from Southampton13 November 2008;
Final call at Lisbon, Portugal14 November 2008:
Final call at Gibralter16 November 2008:
Final call at Civitavecchia, Italy17 November 2008:
Final call at Naples, Italy18 November 2008:
Final call at Valletta, Malta19 November 1968: Maiden call Greenock, Scotland (sort of!)
20 November 2008:
Final call at Alexandria, Egypt. Her last port of call.22 November 1969: Maiden call at Bridgetown, Barbados
27 November 2006: Maiden call at New Orleans, USADecember 8 December 2007:
Final call to Hamburg cancelled due to inclement weather, making
8/9 July 2005 her actual final call10 December 1991: Maiden call at Agadir, Morocco
13 December 1995: Maiden call at Amsterdam, Holland.
17 December 1970: Maiden call at Castries, St. Lucia.
21 December 1971: Maiden call at Port Everglades, USA.
25 December 1981: Maiden call at Kralendijk, Bonaire
28 December 1989: Maiden call at Tokyo, Japan - spends 6 months there as a charter