Queen Elizabeth II (QE2)

Cruise History: Is the QE2 headed for the Dubai scrapyard? Rumors are floating around the former Cunard Line ship is going to be scrapped because the Dubai economic bubble has gone bust. The QE 2 on her last voyage. The Business Insider website is reporting the QE 2 is being scrapped. Last year, once the world’s fastest liner in the world, the Queen Elizabeth 2 was sold by Cunard Lines to Dubai investors. On her last cruise, she sailed to the Middle East for Dubai and arrived in a grand procession In classic Dubai style, the plan was to turn the famous ship into ... Read Full Story

The liner Queen Elizabeth 2 arrives in Dubai, escorted by the UAE Coast Guard, Nov. 26, 2008. More than 60 naval vessels and private boats have met the 70,000-ton ship in the Persian Gulf as it heads for its new home, moored next to an artificial island. One by one they appeared on the horizon today in Dubai, circling and sounding their horns, white sails bobbing on the waves. More than 100 yachts, navy frigates and speedboats were giving chase, like paparazzi pestering an A-list starlet. In their midst, dwarfing all around, its size still enough to take your breath away, was the Cunard ... Read Full Story

The luxury liner Queen Elizabeth 2 made her final call at Malta’s Grand Harbour yesterday on her way to Dubai where she will be converted into a hotel. Photo: Darrin Zammit Lupi. MALTA - It was a “sad but special” day for the world’s most famous ship, its crew and those who have voyaged on it. It was time to say goodbye after four decades of service and Cruising The Past (http://cruiselinehistory.com) salutes the great liner. Queen Elizabeth 2, the last of the great ocean liners, called at Valletta for the last time yesterday before it is transformed into a floating luxury hotel in ... Read Full Story

Front menu cover picture: Her Majesty The Queen, with Captain Warwick and Cunard Chairman Sir Basil Smallpiece, inspects the Britannia figurehead in the Britannia restaurant (now Mauretania Restaurant). 1 May 1969 To recognize the 2008 Farewell Season of QUEEN ELIZABETH 2, Cunard’s UK Public Relations Department presented to passengers commemorative and informative menu covers detailing some of the special events and history of the ocean liner. For the next several days, while the ship is enroute to her final destination in Dubai, I would like to share the information found within the pages of the menu. These menus were presented during her 806th and ... Read Full Story

Full Name: Elizabeth Alexandra Mary DOB: 21th April 1926 Religion: Anglican (Church of England) Current Occupation - Queen of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms - Head of the Commonwealth - Supreme Governor of the Church of England - Duke of Normandy - Lord of Mann - Paramount Chief of Fiji List of Crimes - Signed the EU treaties removing our soverignty - Breaking the royal coronation oath to defend Britain - Collaboration with the Zionist crime network Threat level Category One (high level threat) Read Full Story