Two (Cunard) Queens Out of Three

Joanandjoe · January 14, 2008

We were in NYC for the weekend. As our bus was rounding the Weehawken curve in NJ, on our way home, we saw two cruise ships docked on the West Side. One looked like a classic ocean liner: the QE2, making its last visit to NYC. The other looked like a carbon copy of the HAL Noordam: the new Queen Victoria, making its first visit to NYC. This was around 11 a.m. yesterday.

At 7 p.m., the two ships were to rendezvous with the QM2, which was docked in Brooklyn, so the three queens could leace New York Harbor together.

We wish we had known the ships were in port, so we could have gone to the docks for one last view of the QE2; but at least we saw the ships from the Jersey side.

Did anyone else see them; or, even better, is anyone on the ships? Since the cruise calendar doesn't show ships that have already sailed, I can't look up whether we have Crazies on the ships.

KeithnRita · January 14, 2008

The QM2 was in St Thomas on New Year's Eve. We were docked at the Havensight Mall terminal and the QM2 was at Crown Bay. All we could see was her stacks. She embarked heading north about an hour before we did.

rogue · January 14, 2008

Here's a picture of the event.

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RNSANE · January 14, 2008

It's the story of my life....never in the right place at the right time....and, alas, at 63, I doubt that's going to change!

Joanandjoe · January 14, 2008

Howard, the picture was taken at night. I assume the QM2 is in the foreground, the Victoria in the middle, and the QE2 in the rear. Is that correct?

Did you take this yourself, or get it off a web site? Great picture either way.

Joanandjoe · January 14, 2008

Correction to my initial post: QE2 apparently will visit NYC again before she is retired in November.

rogue · January 14, 2008

Joe, I believe that you do have the order correct. Unfortunately, I got the picture off the net. I wish I saw it for myself.

hazelson · January 14, 2008

Wow - that would have been something to see!

Joanandjoe · January 14, 2008

Wow - that would have been something to see!

True, but you would have gotten very cold and very wet. Still, it's estimated that 100,000 people gathered in Battery and Liberty Parks to see the three ships go sailing out. (And it wasn't even Christmas Day in the Morning). First QM2, then the two queens that had docked in Manhattan sailed under the Verazzano Narrows Bridge (fascinating to see from underneath), then out to sea.