Model Boat Mayhem

Mess Deck: General Section => Chit-Chat => Topic started by: Faraday's Cage on October 10, 2007, 05:02:37 pm

Title: Cunard announces new Queen Elizabeth build.
Post by: Faraday's Cage on October 10, 2007, 05:02:37 pm

Check the link out below for more information.  8)

http://www.cunard.co.uk/news/default.asp?Cat=&View=ViewArticle&Mode=News&ContentID=6797&Active=News (http://www.cunard.co.uk/news/default.asp?Cat=&View=ViewArticle&Mode=News&ContentID=6797&Active=News)

Title: Re: Cunard announces new Queen Elizabeth build.
Post by: Colin Bishop on October 10, 2007, 05:10:22 pm

Interesting, but it rather sounds like it will be another  standardised cruise ship with a fancy paint scheme like Queen Victoria rather than a true ocean liner like QE2 or QM2.

Title: Re: Cunard announces new Queen Elizabeth build.
Post by: Bunkerbarge on October 10, 2007, 05:34:56 pm

Agreed, and if it is build by Fincantieri it will not last fourty years either!!

Title: Re: Cunard announces new Queen Elizabeth build.
Post by: Colin H on October 10, 2007, 10:14:42 pm

Our QE 11 should tell them to bu--er of unless its built in a BRITISH ship yard and if we haven't got a yard big enough build one.

Colin H.

Title: Re: Cunard announces new Queen Elizabeth build.
Post by: Colin Bishop on October 10, 2007, 10:18:07 pm

Cunard is owned by Carnival Corporation - American. And the skills to build a large cruise liner no longer exist within the UK. Essentially, like the Queen Victoria, the new Queen Elizabeth is just a marketing exercise.

Title: Re: Cunard announces new Queen Elizabeth build.
Post by: The long Build on October 10, 2007, 10:37:27 pm

"Furthermore we are delighted that Her Majesty The Queen has given her blessing to our calling this new Cunarder ‘Queen Elizabeth’, after our first vessel of that name. ”

Would it have made any difference if The Queen had not given her blessing ??

Title: Re: Cunard announces new Queen Elizabeth build.
Post by: Ghost in the shell on October 10, 2007, 11:17:49 pm

probably not.  However one thing that I hope it doesnt turn out like, is a sister style of the QM2, having said that, if she looks like one of the Carnival boats then at least it will have some styling.

Title: Re: Cunard announces new Queen Elizabeth build.
Post by: Peter Fitness on October 11, 2007, 12:25:49 am

Colin, I think, sadly, that the days of the true ocean liner are gone, and any new ships will be of the glitz and glamour variety.
Peter.

Title: Re: Cunard announces new Queen Elizabeth build.
Post by: Ghost in the shell on October 11, 2007, 12:28:47 am

that glitz and glamour era probably started with the normandie as well