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Topic: Queen Elizabeth Inaugural Events?
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Rex
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posted 08-24-2010 09:09 PM
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Originally posted by dmwnc1:
New pictures of QE from this past sea trials departure:http://wearecunard.com/2010/08/breaking-news-queen-elizabeth-goes-on-sea-trials/ [ 08-24-2010: Message edited by: dmwnc1 ]
It's basically the Eurodam with a Cunard funnel...the stern, she is like a barn, no?
[ 08-24-2010: Message edited by: Rex ]
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eroller
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posted 08-24-2010 09:30 PM
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Originally posted by Rex:
It's basically the Eurodam with a Cunard funnel...the stern, she is like a barn, no?
[ 08-24-2010: Message edited by: Rex ]
Yes, pretty much EURODAM/NIEUW AMSTERDAM but with different funnels, no outside elevators, and a center section of extended balconies that the HAL ships don't have. I agree about the aft end. It looks like a livestock carrier to me.
The inside of course is a different story, and I found QUEEN VICTORIA to have little resemblance to the HAL Vistas on the interior. The Cunard version is brighter, larger spaces, and with many more multi-level (grand) spaces. Ernie
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dmwnc1
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posted 08-29-2010 05:56 AM
What's to say that the new Queen Elizabeth, which is slightly larger in tonnage and carries roughly the same number of passengers than the original Queens, couldn't also "recreate the glamour of transatlantic travel"? Why is that only reserved for the much larger QM2? And I certainly don't think QE2 carried that torch from the original Queens when she first entered service? That probably didn't really happen until halfway through her career?If anything the new Queens will do it better than QE2 from the onset. And saying the new QE couldn't do it simply because she's 'just another Vista' is absurd. The exterior design of a ship no more dictates it is 'Cunard' anymore than a 'red funnel' dictated QE2 was a Cunarder when she first entered service in 1969. (She didn't have a red Cunard funnel!) QE2 broke the 'liner' mold both in her unconventional interior design and decor, as well as in her exterior design, from all her predecessors of the previous 30 years of transatlantic liners, and in comparison to them looked absolutely nothing like 'Cunard'. And for that matter the next 9 ships in Cunard's fleet (until QM2 came along) were no more Cunard on the outside that what a can of paint to the funnel could do to a bunch of hand-me-down ships along with the 6 letters spelling the name brand on the side of ship would indicate it so. Every single one of the ten ships Cunard has had in the 35 years of service from 1969-2004 were no more and no less Cunard on the outside than the Vista-class Queens of today.
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