Qe2 where is it now

The ship's warm lay-up ended, and after a brief dry docking in January , the ship was placed in cold lay up, afloat, within the Dry Docks facility of Port Rashid. Ambitious plans were announced to relocate QE2 to Asia to become a floating hotel, however no firm location, operator or finances were announced, and no significant work was confirmed to have been carried out , leading us to conclude they were empty announcements. Most online disagreed with us at this stage This made it clearer than ever that the plans noted above, would not be happening.

The ship was filthy, the plans were off. This stunning photo was taken February 22nd Click the photo to see more including the photographer. In , things finally started to look more positive for QE2, and by she had been moved round to the Dubai Cruise Terminal, the very cruise terminal which which she herself inaugurated on her maiden call to Dubai in March during her world cruise.

She was being washed down, and workers were seen going aboard. August brought the surprising news that her lifeboat davits had all been cut off. We disagreed with this move, even if, as suspected, it is to improve the space on boat deck. The boats can be seen above, as can the "naked" boat deck.

Rob Lightbody wrote a feature for Maritime Matters about this, published in January It also became apparent that the aft swimming pool had been removed or covered over. The vessel has languished in Philadelphia since One of the few grand ocean liners we still have, the famed Queen Mary , was purchased by Long Beach, California, in the late s.

Though launched in —a high-water mark in ocean liner travel—the ship's interiors date to the years after World War II. The preservation of the Queen Mary has not been optimal. Much of the ship is now shabby or disfigured, and some of it has been reported to be in such disrepair as to be a danger to staff members. Frommer's has covered major scandals involving poor maintenance. This week, though, the issue reached a crisis point when the directors of the trust that controls the Queen Mary were arrested in Singapore for allegedly failing to disclose information to investors.

But there is some good news about at least one antique ocean liner: After many delays, the world-famous Queen Elizabeth 2 is officially back. Built for the Cunard line in , the ship made more than crossings of the Atlantic Ocean and carried some 2. Now it has just reopened as a floating hotel in Dubai's Mina Rashid port district, where the vessel has been docked since Originally, the QE2 was intended to make a jubilant return to tourism by housing attendees of the now-postponed Dubai Expo September 24, Total Views: Sign up for gCaptain Daily Get the latest gCaptain articles and breaking news.

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