Yeah.. been slung out of there for letting fire extinguishers off too Happy Days I fell in love with a red Fender Strat in their shop. It was only £200 too but £200 quid in 1974 was a hellofa lotta dosh and I was always skint the day after pay day
Garry.. the QE wasn't used by baddies mate.. it was a secret HQ for MI5 and they're not baddies Yes btw.. it was used in 'The Man with the Golden Gun'
The Chinese chap picked 007 up at gun point and they boarded a boat out to the wreck. 007 is instructed to board it and indoors is Moneypenny in all her finery and 'M' in his lightly wonky office. I couldn't tell you how many times I've seen the film. Not only that but I have it (and all the others) on VHS and DVD
DaveB wrote: You used to be able to go on boat trips up the Solent to see the 'liners' in port in Southampton.. perhaps you still can but you won't see many liners these days. We went on one one year
Dave, my uncle worked at Fawley refinery for many years and I think I must have been about five or six when we went down to visit him. We went on one of those boat trips, and the ship we saw was Queen Mary. It sticks in my mind because there was a little old lady sitting next to me, waving a white handkerchief at the people up on the QM's decks . As a child I didn't understand the hankie, but of course, it was so that her waving could be seen. I myself sailed into Southampton a few years later aboard the P&O liner Orsova after a trip from Australia, via South Africa, Brazil, Morocco and Lisbon.
What a way to treat a Queen, its enough to make you weep!!
If i remember right they reckon it was arson as there were fires on board in more than one place though out the ship, strange how the chap that bought her for $3 Million insured her for $8 Million, or is it just me!
Cheers,
Roger.
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
Co-incidentally, of course, the fire came at a time where all previous ideas to use her had come to nothing and the actual project that did take place in the Everglades had failed and this looked like it's success was not assured.
It certainly looked like multiple arson but there is no way of ever knowing as the destruction was total. As I mentioned in an earlier post and is seen in the pics, the fire was so intense that she either melted or at least was hot enough to soften the metal enough to collapse and fold in on itself.
She never enjoyed her rightful place in life, she was even faster than the Mary but they kept her back so they could sell the fastest and the biggest and luck saw her have an undignified and very public death.
Those who had worked her and even built her, well, one can only try and imagine how they must of felt.
I cam across this collecting info for my Airfix model which I will make one day. Always a favourite of mine as a kid, I've had a few too over the years. When it was re released in about 1999 or 2000 I snapped one up for nostalgia.
Sea travel has moved on and the QE2 well represented the transition to cruise ship/liner. Because there will never be a NA liner in the true sense again the QE is assured of it's place as the greatest of it's class.
Garry
"In the world of virtual reality things are not always what they seem."
Gary thanks for posting that link! The RMS Queen Elizabeth was the ship my family and I sailed to the Colonies on in late 1959. Quite an adventure for a young lad.
Happy Days 
