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Offline Twynkle

Stowage and stores etc.
« on: Jun 04, 2009, 11:09 AM »


She must have stored absolutely everything!

Here's video clip of the Hotel Stores for starters....

It would be good to understand more about the QE2's own need for stores - parts, and other 'techie' sort of things too,
as well as where the main areas for stowage were - feeling a bit out of depth now!

mrkpnh - Thank you for this - and the 'Music while you work' bit too!

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Re: Stowage and stores etc all aboard QE2
« Reply #1 on: Jun 04, 2009, 12:03 PM »
The ships stores fall into two categories Food Stores and Dry Stores.
Food Stores are as follows Meat,Poultry,Fish,Vegetables,Wines,Spirits and Beers.

Dry Stores are Furniture,Pint,Crockery,Cutlery,Glassware,Hospital and Medical Supplies,Floral Decoration,Printed Material,Ships uniform and Working Rig and Pianos.

As many as 2300 boxes and cartons delivered to the ship contain what are termed as Technical Stores and theses are handled by the onboard dept.of that name.Anything from batteries to spanners,safety shoes to screws,all are stored onboard for immediate use at any time by any dept.The range of Technical Stores has grown so much that one of the six cargo holds withing the ship had to be taken over as a stockroom.

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Offline Twynkle

Re: Stowage and stores etc all aboard QE2
« Reply #2 on: Jun 04, 2009, 01:19 PM »



Thanks for this Louis.

I would guess that lifting, fetching and carrying must have been nearly a full time job for almost every crew member.

Everything to do with ordering must have been done electronically for some time.
Before then, requesting and ordering must have been a huge amount of work too,
as well as the physical re-stocking of goods.

Interesting about the size of the stores - I wonder what went into each of the other 5 cargo holds?
Rob's cutaway picture might come in useful here!   

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Re: Stowage and stores etc all aboard QE2
« Reply #3 on: Jun 04, 2009, 02:04 PM »
The Stores is normally out of bounds for crew.Theres a Store Manager onboard which under him work a few of the Philipino Staff.There job is store the ship on storing days that is making sure that everthing goes to right places,some stuff come onboard in small blue containers these are stored aside then opened on sea days and stored away.They also make the deliveries to bars,restaurants or kitchens when necessary.

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Offline cunardqueen

Re: Stowage and stores etc all aboard QE2
« Reply #4 on: Jun 04, 2009, 10:41 PM »
I remember being told away back in 1986 that when QE2 was half way across the atlantic bound for New York a fax/telex some 12 feet long would be sent to Cunard in Southampton with details of the stores required for her arrival in 8 days time
From the moment you first glimpsed the Queen,
 you just knew you were in for a very special time ahead.!

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Re: Stowage and stores etc all aboard QE2
« Reply #5 on: Jun 05, 2009, 08:30 AM »
The Stores Manager aboard QE2 places his order for each port of call some six in advance,so the supplies arriving today in Southampton will have been telexed ahead from the ship at least a day before arrival in New York on the previous westbound voyage.


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Re: Stowage and stores etc all aboard QE2
« Reply #6 on: Jun 05, 2009, 02:03 PM »


Thank you!
This is  interesting...

I wonder whether the contents of order are usually the same,
and the amount depends on the length of each 'stretch' between deliveries...
A degree in logistics could be useful!



Offline Chris

Re: Stowage and stores etc all aboard QE2
« Reply #7 on: Jun 06, 2009, 03:28 AM »
Page 84 in our QE2 book (for those who have it) have some shots of the stores.

Here's a shot that didn't make the book, QE2's Chocolate and Mayonnaise compliment:
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Wines aboard the QE2
« Reply #8 on: Aug 07, 2009, 06:02 PM »

Heres a link of how the wines get onboard and about the wine cellar.
I last count of the hours i spend down deep in the ship :)

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m3488/is_n1_v78/ai_19218509/

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Re: Stowage and stores etc all aboard QE2
« Reply #9 on: Nov 17, 2009, 11:10 PM »
Just to draw attention to one of Malcolm's amazing adventures during his World Cruise :

https://www.theqe2story.com/forum/index.php/topic,543.msg10911.html#msg10911

What would I have given to have been able to see the QE2 stores! Enabling a few select passengers to take this tour in return for a donation to a QE2 charity, seems an excellent idea.

Here is a quote from Malcolm's Diary :

After the lecture it was time for our Ship’s Stores tour. Warren had telephoned earlier this morning, while I was at the lecture, to say that Thomas would be conducting the tour and that we should meet him at 11-000 am in the Midships lobby. I had arranged for my father to do the tour as well so the three of us met the other couple in the lobby just before 11-00 am. Thomas was already waiting so it was about 10-55 am that we all set off.

We first caught the lift down to Five Deck (eek!) and then walked along about a third of the ship. Thomas then directed us through the big double door, just past the Car Lift, marked “Crew Only”. From there it was down another two decks to meet the officer in charge of the stores, Gregory Dorothy. Gregory then took us on a tour through the stores areas. We started in the dry goods store, then the frozen fish, raw meat, fruit, veg and ice cream freezers; the banana store, the housekeeping store and the spirits, wine and beer cellar (They still have the tanks that were used to carry beer but they are no longer used). We got to see one of the goods lifts from inside and the store under the hatch in the foredeck. It was also interesting to hear stories about the stores and to know that the ship won’t run out of butter before reaching Dubai (because of an ordering mistake).

I had thought I’d have managed to write much more than a single paragraph about the stores. I’m not sure what else I can say about them though. I do have lots of video showing the vast piles of potatoes, the storeroom with boxes of pineapples going from floor to ceiling (not just pineapples but strawberries, melons, Kiwi fruit, asparagus, cauliflowers, bananas, almost every vegetable or fruit you could name). Pictures do not do justice to the sights of the stores; you really need to be there to understand just how much stock is held there.

I did see one sight that will gladden the hearts of most Cunard passengers – there was a place in the wine cellar for keeping Pol Acker. There was only one bottle left. Unfortunately, when I commented on this, I was told that there are four places around the ship where it is stored and only this one was empty.

The entire tour lasted just over 1 ½ hours.

So many questions arise... But the first is this :

Malcolm, do you have the videos you mention here? Where can we see them?

Offline cunardqueen

Re: Newspaper Article
« Reply #10 on: Nov 19, 2009, 05:10 AM »
Interesting Louis, l recall seeing the exactly same feature in the World cruise book for QE2 passengers in 1986, guess some things dont change.But its still remarkable!
From the moment you first glimpsed the Queen,
 you just knew you were in for a very special time ahead.!

Offline dellboy

Re: Stowage and stores etc all aboard QE2
« Reply #11 on: Mar 11, 2010, 06:37 PM »
Hi can any one tell me where the cargo holds are on QE2 and how big are Ive com-across cut-away sections of QE2 but they stop short of the main beam.
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Offline cunardqueen

Re: Stowage and stores etc all aboard QE2
« Reply #12 on: Mar 11, 2010, 07:17 PM »
Alan Whicker on his programme showed a lot of the stores , not to mention the wine,champagne & Caviar stores.
From the moment you first glimpsed the Queen,
 you just knew you were in for a very special time ahead.!

Offline Chris

The Stores
« Reply #13 on: May 28, 2010, 10:24 AM »
Taken in March 2008.

1 - Caviar
2 - Chocolate Larder
3 - Duck
4 - Ready meat (for that night)
5 - Kellogs Packet Cereal

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« Last Edit: May 28, 2010, 10:27 AM by Chris »
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Re: 1996 Newspaper Article
« Reply #14 on: Jul 26, 2010, 10:05 PM »
Heres a newspaper article from 1996.
Louis

Excellent article, Louis... just shows how much is required to make QE2 and all her services "tick" along...!

I saw some of the loading of huge quantities in Southampton :

https://www.flickr.com/photos/prondis_in_kenya/3096540606/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/prondis_in_kenya/3096546778/

and some in New York :

https://www.flickr.com/photos/prondis_in_kenya/2866701758/

But then, as the article points out, there were also the crew changes, the piano tuners, the engine adjustments, the water and the bunkering... as well as so much more.

Unimaginable to think how all these logistics were co-ordinated!
« Last Edit: Jul 27, 2010, 07:40 PM by Isabelle Prondzynski »