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Cruise History: Is the QE2 headed for the Dubai scrapyard? Rumors are floating around the former Cunard Line ship is going to be scrapped because the Dubai economic bubble has gone bust.
By Michael L. Grace | March 26, 2009
Cruise History: Is the QE2 headed for the Dubai scrapyard? Rumors are floating around the former Cunard Line ship is going to be scrapped because the Dubai economic bubble has gone bust.
The QE 2 on her last voyage.
The Business Insider website is reporting the QE 2 is being scrapped.
Last year, once the world’s fastest liner in the world, the Queen Elizabeth 2 was sold by Cunard Lines to Dubai investors. On her last cruise, she sailed to the Middle East for Dubai and arrived in a grand procession
In classic Dubai style, the plan was to turn the famous ship into a floating hotel.
Fast forward to now and according to Business Insider editor Joe Weisenthal the dream is dead. His insider mole in Dubai states the QE 2 is being dismantled. He claims there’s no business for the hotel, and the idled ship is just sitting there, costing money and polluting the water. Hence, workers are actively pulling it apart, a sad end for such a grand ship.
A youtube video of Brits saying their final goodbyes to the possibly now doomed liner QE2.
Business Insider is looking for pictures of the dismantling.
Problems with Weisenthal’s story it could be just the beginning of the conversion.
But, it true, the QE 2 will end up like her predecessor. The first RMS Queen Elizabeth is seen below being hacked apart in Hong Kong harbor following a devastating fire.
1970s – Workmen with cutting torches have begun dissecting the great iron corpse of what had once been the ocean liner Queen Elizabeth, now a rusting hulk in the shallow waters of Hong Kong harbor.
Topics: CUNARD LINE, FRENCH LINE, FRENCH STEAMSHIP AND CRUISE LINES, STEAMSHIP LINES, UK STEAMSHIP AND CRUISE LINES, WHITE STAR - CUNARD LINE | 1 Comment »
March 26th, 2009 at 8:42 pm
The story is not true. Not yet at least.
On Sunday 22nd of March, QM2 docked immediately behind QE2, and QE2 appeared completely intact and ready to sail.
Some photos are here.
http://www.theqe2story.com/forum/index.php/board,2.0.html