iconic cruise liner QE2 sold as scrap to chinese

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[michael_taal]

The QE2 is set to be sold as scrap to the Chinese for £20m.

The move follows the failure of a after a last minute bid to bring it back to the famous cruise liner back to Britain as a five-star floating hotel.

The iconic ocean liner - which also served as a troop carrier during the Falklands - has been moored in a commercial port in Dubai since it was sold for £64m in 2008.

[STORMM_29]

thats really sad

[Rbsanford]

Nooo! But it's Christmas!

Oh well, I bet some Chinese scrapyard will have a pretty big present under their tree.

[goodles]

I have £1 to spare, has anyone else got money to spare we could all chip in and buy it!

[Rbsanford]

I have $8. But how will we buy the QE2 with different currency types?

[clanky]

thats really sad

I tend to look at the scrapping of ships slightly differently in that they made it through their entire lives without sinking.  All ships have to come to an end at some point, better to be run up the beach than to go hurtling to the bottom.

[VirtualSkipper]

The SS United States will be sold to Shipbreakers of Alang, India ...!

Today, the failed attempt to keep the great transatlantic failure because this movement organizers opted to sell the ship to Alang breakers by a very significant amount of money because the damage it has caused rust on the ship and in his painting exceeds several million dollars. To this figure must be added even remodeling and repair of the interior of the ship, this was one of the strongest reasons that prompted the organizers of the preservation movement of SS United States chose to sell this great ship. It's a shame to have lost two large ships in this week, QE2 and SS United States.

[danny]

Cunard have denied the sale of the QE2 to Chinese breakers, saying

 "We have noted the messages of understandable concern with regards to the recent article in the Daily Mail with reference to QE2. We remain in close contact with Dubai and can reassure you that to the very best of our knowledge this story is pure speculation - one of a number of stories and rumours as we have seen over recent months. Our best advice would be to ignore the story.

Best regards,
Cunard Line."

[Rbsanford]

Oh good, that was close!

[Stuart2007]

I can't see the problem with scrapping the old tub. Nothing special. Outdated and irrelevant.

Look at the great joy over the original Queen Mary being "saved"... Stuck in 10,000 tonnes of concrete, the interior all ripped out and used as a hotel, nightclub and dodgy souvenir shops for tourists.

[clanky]

Ships are just steel structures which (hopefully) float, they do not have personalities or auras or anything else, they have rust, cracks, mechanical problems, occasionally holes in the bottom, but never personalities.

People talk of happy ships or unlucky ships, I have sailed with happy crews and lucky crews, but never a happy ship or an unlucky ship, a ship no more has the capacity to be lucky or happy than a tin can, the QE2 may have had some great (and probably some not so great) people onboard over the years and there may have been a great atmosphere onboard at times, but that atmosphere was made by the people onboard, the steel hull is no more than steel plates welded together.

[Rbsanford]

Maybe so, but the QE2 has such a classic design that you never see in modern cruise ships, and it would make a better hotel then rusted pile on the beach.

[floatboat]

Aaaaand my day is ruined.....

[Stuart2007]

Ships are just steel structures which (hopefully) float, they do not have personalities or auras or anything else, they have rust, cracks, mechanical problems, occasionally holes in the bottom, but never personalities.

People talk of happy ships or unlucky ships, I have sailed with happy crews and lucky crews, but never a happy ship or an unlucky ship, a ship no more has the capacity to be lucky or happy than a tin can, the QE2 may have had some great (and probably some not so great) people onboard over the years and there may have been a great atmosphere onboard at times, but that atmosphere was made by the people onboard, the steel hull is no more than steel plates welded together.

Hmph... He's CLEARLY never been onboard Pride of Bilbao!

[clanky]

Hmph... He's CLEARLY never been onboard Pride of Bilbao!

OK, I can see your point there, PoB was never really steel plates welded together so much as several thousand tons of rust held together by optimism and will power!

[Stuart2007]

OK, I can see your point there, PoB was never really steel plates welded together so much as several thousand tons of rust held together by optimism and will power!

  Take care not to wrap the anchor chain of your ship around your neck, Mr Clanky. People who do such silly things are also the same sort of careless types who tend to get beaten to death for saying 'orrid fings about the worlds finest cruiseferry. 

[michael_taal]

today I saw in the Newsclippings that the QE2 wont be scrapped she will be refurbished into an 5 star hotel with 500 rooms, a maritime museum, shops and restaurants.
last thursday it was moved to Drydocks World Dubai for classification checks prior to her renovation as a luxury floating hotel the ship will be based in Asia