Wednesday, October 15, 2008

QE2 bids farewell to America this week

Possibly of interest to some, and you know who you are...

LATimes

After leaving New York for the last time, the Queen Elizabeth 2, the world's best-known passenger ship, will eventually head to Dubai to become a floating hotel and museum.

A pipe and drum corps, flotilla of pleasure craft and other fanfare in New York will give Cunard Line's QE2 a nostalgic send-off for her 806th and final transatlantic crossing on Thursday (Oct. 16). Accompanying the ship on her six-night voyage to Southampton, England, will be her glamorous younger sister, 4-year-old Queen Mary 2.

For details on the QE2's New York farewell, visit the "Royal Rendezvous" page of Cunard's website.

Bon Voyage to a beautiful, classy old lady.

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