With the Blue Boot Top

[Chris]

Two lovely photographs here of QE2 in her less than popular Blue Boot Top.



https://www.flickr.com/photos/vinceneale/3457023563/

[Malcolm]

Two lovely photographs here of QE2 in her less than popular Blue Boot Top.

At least she still had her black hull

[KEV]

Forget the blue boot-look at that great view of the funnel steaming away!

[Andy F]

Great find there Chris

[highlander0108]

Great find too!  Did anyone else notice that the bridge glass recessed area was NOT painted black?  I could not put my finger on why the bridge looked odd until I looked at the full size pic.  I also noticed that the horizontal band of aluminum plating reinforcing had been added by 1979 below the Upper Deck windows.

[Louis De Sousa]

Heres one more taken in 1981

[Andrew Collier]

Hey, thanks for sharing those awesome pics, i've never been ashamed to go against the flow, and never been ashamed to say i didn't mind the blue boot topping when everyone else seems to hate it, but the more I look, the more I like it even more, it actually has a very real appeal of its own....dedicated fan 

[KEV]

Yes I also think it looks nice. Like the red aswell of course!

[Isabelle Prondzynski]

Here's another bright blue boot top, also from vinceneale :

https://www.flickr.com/photos/vinceneale/3472856726/

Bow anchor already gone, nostrils open 

[QE2_MATTHEW]

Hey, thanks for sharing those awesome pics, i've never been ashamed to go against the flow, and never been ashamed to say i didn't mind the blue boot topping when everyone else seems to hate it, but the more I look, the more I like it even more, it actually has a very real appeal of its own.... 

Im with ya Andy2...

[Trevor Harris]

Typical of me to resurrect such dead topics lol.

I like the blue boot top because it (at the time) made the ship look modern. Why did they go blue?

[Isabelle Prondzynski]

Typical of me to resurrect such dead topics lol.

There are no dead topics in this Forum. We are invited to add more information, more memories, more questions and observations to any topic at any time. The more the better .

This goes for all topics, even the archived ones!

[Bob C.]

There are no dead topics in this Forum. We are invited to add more information, more memories, more questions and observations to any topic at any time. The more the better .

This goes for all topics, even the archived ones!

Per Isabelle's comment - here is one of QE2 arriving at Cherbourg on a westbound transAtlantic in July 1979.  To be honest, I was extremely disappointed in Cunard for using the blue boot topping and registered a complaint back then.  Blue has no historic meaning with any Cunard ship that I can recall.  Perhaps they were trying to set a trend like the Green Goddess but this blue did not and does not work for me.

[Trevor Harris]

It just looks so nice. Lol. Blue is a favorite color for me.

[Peter Mugridge]

I would agree that blue is a nice colour - but I would disagree about it being used in that circumstance; it just doesn't look right...