While not exactly QE2 Female Crew, these are the only photos i have of Nepalese Female security MAAs. This was taken on QV at an 'at sea' Sunday lunch Curry BBQ. My mouth is watering just looking at the spread on offer.
Following the change from NUS crewing in 1986, the MAAs were initially European, then in 1998 the first Nepalese MAAs began with Cunard, initially as a short term 'contract' and then, moving over to be permanently employed via an agency, as 98% of Cunard crew are. Firstly they were all male and then when 'gender for gender' searching came into force we had our first female Nepalese MAAs.
I remember one day when QE2 was in New York 2003 or 2004, come all aboard for crew, which was an hour before sailing in those days, we had one of our Nepalese Female MAAs missing. Checks were made onboard plus all ship announcements, but no sign of her. The ship's agent and CBP made all their usual enquiries, police, hospitals etc but came up blank, all we could deduce therefore was that she had 'jumped ship'.
Later we found an email address in her possessions and i emailed it to ask that, whoever this addressee was, if they knew her or where she was, would they reply just to let us know she was safe & well, sadly i got no reply.
Several weeks later, on a TransAtlantic crossing, i got talking to a passenger who turned out to be an attorney who had close links with the Nepalese community in Chicago, apparently it is quite large. He took her name and details, plus a photo and offered to make enquiries when he got back to the USA, sadly he was unable to find any news of her but kept trying for a year or so.
He was quite convinced that she would have been 'fed' through the Nepalese underground network to a place of safety and given a new identity, joining the huge number of 'illegals' in USA.
She was a lovely girl and i often wonder, to this day, exactly where she is and what she's doing, sadly i'll never know.