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muns

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Cunard order new liner - "Queen Elizabeth"
« on: October 11, 2007, 19:16:52 »

Just read today that Cunard have ordered a new liner to be called "Queen Elizabeth" and is to be based in Southampton and enter service in 2010.

She is to be 92000 tons and accommodate 2092 passengers.  It will be the second largest Cunard has ever built after the QM2.

http://www.cunard.co.uk/news/default.asp?Cat=&View=ViewArticle&Mode=News&ContentID=6797&Active=News (http://www.cunard.co.uk/news/default.asp?Cat=&View=ViewArticle&Mode=News&ContentID=6797&Active=News)
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Shipaddict

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Re: Cunard order new liner - "Queen Elizabeth"
« Reply #1 on: October 11, 2007, 19:22:28 »

I've heard! Great news!
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Jackal

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Re: Cunard order new liner - "Queen Elizabeth"
« Reply #2 on: October 11, 2007, 23:58:44 »

Wow, it's going to be built less than 20km from where I live! Of course, Fincantieri is one of the best yards in the world! ;D
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Shipaddict

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Re: Cunard order new liner - "Queen Elizabeth"
« Reply #3 on: October 12, 2007, 08:21:38 »

Wow, it's going to be built less than 20km from where I live! Of course, Fincantieri is one of the best yards in the world! ;D
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Hehe, I like John Brown, Clyde!
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Jackal

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Re: Cunard order new liner - "Queen Elizabeth"
« Reply #4 on: October 12, 2007, 12:29:14 »


Hehe, I like John Brown, Clyde!

Well, that shipyard has a great history too (Queen Mary, Queen Elizabeth, HMS Hood, HMS Repulse, HMY Britannia, etc...)!  :)
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Shipaddict

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Re: Cunard order new liner - "Queen Elizabeth"
« Reply #5 on: October 12, 2007, 12:33:23 »

Well, that shipyard has a great history too (Queen Mary, Queen Elizabeth, HMS Hood, HMS Repulse, HMY Britannia, etc...)!  :)
Ciao,

  Corrado
Yeah, that's why I like it! :)
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Paddy134

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Re: Cunard order new liner - "Queen Elizabeth"
« Reply #6 on: October 12, 2007, 23:34:08 »

Brilliant news, but i wish cunard would start building their ships on the clyde again. whatever happened to patriotism.
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muns

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Re: Cunard order new liner - "Queen Elizabeth"
« Reply #7 on: October 13, 2007, 08:53:52 »

Brilliant news, but i wish cunard would start building their ships on the clyde again. whatever happened to patriotism.

Economics.
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Shipaddict

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Re: Cunard order new liner - "Queen Elizabeth"
« Reply #8 on: October 13, 2007, 08:57:29 »

Brilliant news, but i wish cunard would start building their ships on the clyde again. whatever happened to patriotism.

Clyde would be good. Where the original QE was built.
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Re: Cunard order new liner - "Queen Elizabeth"
« Reply #9 on: October 13, 2007, 16:02:16 »

I realise the original Queen Elizabeth is no longer running but still, should this ship be called the Queen Elizabeth rather than QE 3 or something else altogether?  What are your thoughts?
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Shipaddict

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Re: Cunard order new liner - "Queen Elizabeth"
« Reply #10 on: October 13, 2007, 20:28:47 »

QE3 doesn't have the same ring to it me thinks :)
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Re: Cunard order new liner - "Queen Elizabeth"
« Reply #11 on: October 13, 2007, 20:30:01 »

Sounds like a computer game ::)
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Re: Cunard order new liner - "Queen Elizabeth"
« Reply #12 on: October 14, 2007, 09:19:14 »

Sounds like a computer game ::)

 :o  ::) Don't want that ;D
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Re: Cunard order new liner - "Queen Elizabeth"
« Reply #13 on: October 14, 2007, 10:08:40 »

:o  ::) Don't want that ;D

QE 3: Cunard Strike Back ;D

Uh oh, I mentioned 'strike'......sorry Royal Mail :P
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Re: Cunard order new liner - "Queen Elizabeth"
« Reply #14 on: October 14, 2007, 10:10:59 »

QE 3: Cunard Strike Back ;D

Uh oh, I mentioned 'strike'......sorry Royal Mail :P

ROFL! ;D :D

Seems they've fixed it though :)
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