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dmwnc1
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Member # 3785

posted 07-23-2010 04:45 AM

We are only 80 days away from her Maiden Voyage, 77 days from her Southampton arrival, and approximately 70 days from her final departure from Fincantieri. I haven't seen or heard anything regarding any Travel Agent 'event' cruises. Shouldn't she have already done, or getting very close to doing, her first sea trials as well? Seems like most cruise ships do their first sea trials about 8-10 weeks before delivery? That would put it right about now? We haven't seen any new pictures in two months!

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dmwnc1
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Member # 3785

posted 08-13-2010 03:44 PM

This screen grab at approx 3:35pm EST today;

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dmwnc1
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Member # 3785

posted 08-24-2010 02:34 PM

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 ]

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Rex
First Class Passenger
Member # 1113

posted 08-24-2010 09:09 PM

quote:
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
First Class Passenger
Member # 1649

posted 08-24-2010 09:30 PM

quote:
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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viking109
First Class Passenger
Member # 6280

posted 08-25-2010 04:59 AM

Got to love this report from the Mail on line. Check out the picture of the ship!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/article-1303252/Cunards-Queen-Elizabeth-Set-rule-waves-months.html

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PamM
First Class Passenger
Member # 2127

posted 08-25-2010 06:44 AM

Hilarious - but sad to think people actually get paid for this tripe. I wonder if it is in the printed version?
They haven't deleted the comments yet - usually if anyone corrects them the comment is just removed.

Pam

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Cunardcoll
First Class Passenger
Member # 1226

posted 08-28-2010 06:17 PM

They are not even showing a photo of the right ship in this article, and the comment that she will recreate the glamour of transatlantic travel, no way, that's QM2 's job, QE will be just another vista class in Cunard style, nothing more, nothing less.

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dmwnc1
Cruise Director
Member # 3785

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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dmwnc1
Cruise Director
Member # 3785

posted 08-31-2010 11:47 AM

New bow on shot of QE sitting in drydock:

http://www.shipspotting.com/modules/myalbum/photo.php?lid=1172810

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Maasdam
First Class Passenger
Member # 3858

posted 08-31-2010 12:59 PM

Who will be the godmother???

Greetings Ben.

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Conte Di Savoia
First Class Passenger
Member # 1802

posted 08-31-2010 02:20 PM

The windscreen surrounding the forward Sports Deck is capped by a rather broad band of steel, unlike that on Queen Victoria where it is more ephemeral. It looks too top heavy, IMHO. I wonder why the change?

[ 08-31-2010: Message edited by: Conte Di Savoia ]

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Thad
First Class Passenger
Member # 1224

posted 08-31-2010 02:34 PM

I think it now supports a steel and fabric awning over that deck...

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dmwnc1
Cruise Director
Member # 3785

posted 09-09-2010 09:43 AM

More pictures of QE on 2nd Sea Trials

http://wearecunard.com/2010/09/queen-elizabeth-on-her-second-set-of-sea-trials/

[ 09-09-2010: Message edited by: dmwnc1 ]

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bcscot
First Class Passenger
Member # 22351

posted 09-09-2010 09:07 PM

These ships do seem to be getting higher & higher. She is a nice looking Vista,

but does have a little of that 'Epic' high forehead look!

I would love to sail on her though. I bet that she will be beautiful & elegant inside & give a splendid cruise experience.

Graham.

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