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Queen Elizabeth II - Cunard
On Tuesday, 11th November the QEII will leave Southampton for the final time, bound for Dubai. An enormous send off is planned with a vast amount of people expected to see her leave. Southampton & Solent Webcams
Facts
The RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 (QE2) is a Cunard
Line ocean liner named after the earlier Cunard liner RMS Queen Elizabeth.
She was the flagship of the line from 1969 until succeeded by the RMS Queen
Mary 2 in 2004. She was considered the last of the great transatlantic ocean
liners prior to the construction of the QM2, and, before she was refitted
with a diesel power plant in 1986, she was the last oil-fired passenger
steamship to cross the Atlantic in scheduled liner service. During her service
as the Cunard flagship, the QE2 traveled the world, and now operates
predominantly as a cruise ship sailing out of Southampton, England.
QE2 set to become floating hotel Dubai is to buy the Queen Elizabeth 2 cruise ship for $100m (£50.5m) and turn it into a floating hotel off the Gulf emirate's man-made islands. The 70,000-tonne vessel, launched by the Queen in 1967, is to be sold to the Dubai World firm by Carnival, the world's largest cruise operator. Dubai government-owned real-estate developer Nakheel is building three palm-frond shaped isles off its coast. The ship will be berthed from 2009 at a pier at the Palm Jumeirah development.
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