Some of The QE2 Anniversaries!

[Twynkle]

  9th April 2006:  Final (and Maiden??) call to Safaga, Egypt

  10th April 2006: Final  call to Aqaba, Jordan


(Rob - if poss - please don't delete this post just yet! -
There could well be more to add to it when time allows!)

[Twynkle]

 

  16th April 1982: Maiden call at Arrecife, Lanzarote, Canary Islands.

[Twynkle]

22.4.2008
Hey Rob,
This was the date that QE2 was due to enter drydock at Bremerhaven,
What happened, was it 'cancelled' or changed'?

Many thanks!

[Michael Gallagher]

23 years ago today (25 April) that QE2 was handed back to Cunard after her re-engining - the biggest conversion job in history. 1.7 million man hours. £100 million. 179 days.

And Rob the anniversary of your first trip is dawning....

[Rob Lightbody]

23 years ago today (25 April) that QE2 was handed back to Cunard after her re-engining - the biggest conversion job in history. 1.7 million man hours. £100 million. 179 days.

And Rob the anniversary of your first trip is dawning....

I remember it like it was yesterday, i can't believe its been 23 years.  This photo was taken that first night.

[cunardqueen]

Happy Anniversary Rob
 Your first date with the Queen.. 

[Kathy M.]

Great photo!  You were so lucky to have "met" her at such a young age; I was in my 20s when I made her acquaintance!

[Twynkle]

Congratulations, Rob!
To you and your family.

Can you remember when your first ever memories of QE2?
Maybe she was  always around - in the air, as it were!

Great colour co-ordination, too btw!

[Lynda Bradford]

What a fantastic photo that must bring back many memories.  You were very lucky to have been there at such a young age and at that time you could never have imagined that all these years later you would start a forum aimed at keeping the legend alive. 

[Twynkle]

 
  2nd May 1969 Official maiden Voyage from Southampton to New York.
                       (Already noted in the Timeline!)

  1st May 2007: Final Call at St Thomas, Virgin Islands
 
  2nd May 2007: Final call at St Kitts, West Indies
 
  3rd May 2007:  Final call at Grenada, Carribean Sea
 
  4th May 2007:  Final call at Barbados, West Indies
 
  5th May 2007:  Final call at St Lucia, Carribean Sea
 
  6th May 2007:  Final call at Antigua, West Indies
 
  10th May 2007: Final call at  Ponta Delgada, Azores

[SaraSteiner]

I have the Daily Express article of the Yalta incident, unfortunately I don't have a scanner at present.

World Cruise: Yalta. Soviet authorities suddenly demand that only passengers with a Soviet visa or pre-paid tour be allowed ashore.
Realizing that more than half his passenger would never make it ashore, Captain Arnott orders a full tender to return to the ship, orders the Soviet authorities off the ship, and to the strains of "Rule Britannia" and "Stars and Stripes" ringing throughout the ship, pulls up anchor and sails away.
Passengers send masses of flowers and hundreds of messages of support to the captain's quarters, and Captain and Mrs. Arnott receive a standing ovation upon entering the restaurant that evening.

[Twynkle]

Wednesday 20th September 1967

43 years ago today - A fine day!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY to QE2

and A Great Big Thank you, too!
http://www.thecunarders.co.uk/QE2%20Special%20Articles.html

[Isabelle Prondzynski]

As I imagine that no one will bake her a cake today, she might like to remember her last one, from two years ago, in Britannia Grill :



https://www.flickr.com/photos/prondis_in_kenya/2886147091/

And here was her other cake, from Princess Grill :

https://www.flickr.com/photos/prondis_in_kenya/3354297133/

And her Anniversary Ball :

https://www.flickr.com/photos/prondis_in_kenya/3356322382/

But of course, we are thinking of her here -- and Rob will be spreading his enthusiasm to more people too

[Lynda Bradford]

Happy Birthday QE2.

Thanks Rosie for the web site link and Isabelle for the  photos of the cakes.  You are right Isabelle  she will not have a cake baked for her today but she has had some wonderful celebrations on many of her anniversaries.  I have attached a link to a photo of a cake that was baked for her by the City Bakeries in Clydebank to celebrate her launch in 1967.  I remember this cake being on display in the shop.  


http://www.scotlandsimages.com/Respages/Preview.aspx?Trans_No=1000460&vfrom=search&sword=AAA00203&pos=0&curr=0

[Cruise_Princess]

Happy Birthday to Me.


Today it is my Birthday...now I'm Forty Three
Oh it is so different ...nobody to congratulate me
I always had a party a great big birthday bash
But now It feels as though I've been thrown into the trash

There's been no flag waving no shouts of I love you
Has everyone forgot about this old ship  the QE2?
I used to be the IT girl the 'POSH' of ships afloat
But now I sit here all alone  with not even a special note

So I'll just have a quiet day reflecting on the past
Wondering just how long in this awful heat I'll last
I'll have a little drink or 2 just to celebrate my day
will you also raise a glass to me  though you are so far away.?


Does nobody loves me...on this my special day...
But I think I know there are some folks who are so very far away
I'd love you all to come over and have a great big party
 It'd be just like the old days we'd all be hail and hearty


I sure hope that I'm still not sitting here when I turn forty four
Its' been 2  very long years now.. and.I  JUST CAN'T TAKE ANY MORE!
Seeing as it IS my Birthday can someone tell me when
I can get on with living and just be myself again.