Cunard Fleet celebrates Queen Mary 2's 10th Birthday - Southampton 9th May 2014

[Isabelle Prondzynski]

Forum member Andy F (where have you been, these past couple of years, Andy?) was in Southampton for the celebration and his photos are to be seen in Flickr, in this album :

https://www.flickr.com/photos/andyfitzsimmons/sets/72157644809448175

If you hover your cursor over the "See more" near the top of the page, you can read his summary of the events of the day.

[Clydebuilt1971]

Rename QV & QE - Caronia and Franconia then build another TA Liner and call her QE. Dont go near Lusitania, Mauretania or Aquitania as they're  as revered as the Queens!! (if not more)

Job done!

Although I would imagine the Vista boats were given Queen names for marketing purposes they would do OK with some imaginative marketing under their new names!

Gav

[Hank Hargrove]

Rename QV & QE - Caronia and Franconia then build another TA Liner and call her QE. Dont go near Lusitania, Mauretania or Aquitania as they're  as revered as the Queens!! (if not more)

Job done!

Although I would imagine the Vista boats were given Queen names for marketing purposes they would do OK with some imaginative marketing under their new names!

Gav

I don't think you'd have to worry about them naming it Lusitania as the disaster obscures the liner and the name sadly.


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[Michael Gallagher]

Princess was originally Conquest and given the Princess name once Princess Grace had consented to name her.

And plans were drawn up for a sister to QM2...

[Hank Hargrove]

Princess was originally Conquest and given the Princess name once Princess Grace had consented to name her.

And plans were drawn up for a sister to QM2...

A sister to QM2 or QE2?


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[Michael Gallagher]

Sister to QM2. She also had a name!

[Peter Mugridge]

May we ask which Queen this would have been, and would the ship have been an exact sister?  Could it even still happen....?

[Hank Hargrove]

May we ask which Queen this would have been, and would the ship have been an exact sister?  Could it even still happen....?

I remember someone saying the possibility of another transatlantic liner could happen...either in 2044 or maybe in the near future, but it all depends on the demand.


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[Adam Hodson]

Could it even still happen....?

It would be nice if it did happen. 

[Hank Hargrove]

It would be nice if it did happen. 

Agreed.