To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the launch of the greatest ocean liner ever built, here are some photos of my recently-completed QE2. The ship was launched 20 September 1967 in Scotland.
The RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 immediately became the Cunard flagship, and sailed hundreds of crossings and 26 round-the-world voyages. The QE2 was Cunard's longest-serving ocean liner.
This is the Revell 1:1200 scale model of the best ocean liner ever built - the QE2. The small box kit gives a finished hull only 25 cm in length.
I sailed around the world on this ship - it is a fantastic way to spend 4 months.
Sadly the ship is now retired and decaying in the UAE.
The model shows the QE2 as she appeared after 1982 when the ship was used by the British as a military troop transport for the Falklands/Malvinas war. The funnel is still the original white. The Cunard orange/red was a later addition to the paint scheme.
The year 1967 saw the first look at Concorde, and the first flight of the Saturn V rocket.
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| Photo of actual launch of the QE2 on 20 September 1967 at Clydebank, Scotland. The Queen managed to name it after herself with these words: "I name this ship Queen Elizabeth the Second. May God bless her and all who sail in her." Cunard cleverly reworked the name and used the digit "2" in the name instead of the roman numeral "II" or the word "second". Thus was born the QE2.
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| QE2 (1967) with the new (2004) Queen Mary 2. |
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| QE2 (1967) with the new (2004) Queen Mary 2. |
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| QE2 (1967) with the new (2004) Queen Mary 2. |
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| QE2 (1967) with the new (2004) Queen Mary 2. |
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| QE2 (1967) with the new (2004) Queen Mary 2. |
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| QE2 (1967) with the new (2004) Queen Mary 2. |
