T
he QE2 may now be a dead ship. The MS Queen Elizabeth 2 was purchased back in 2008 for conversion to a luxury hotel in Dubai, but a worldwide recession ended those plans. Since then there are have been a variety of reports, including a more modest hotel conversion in Dubai, a luxury hotel conversation in Asia and even a scheme to bring the ship the the Thames River in London. Nothing came to fruition and last December we posted of the “Queen Elizabeth 2 Rotting Away in Dubai.”
Now reports from Dubai say that the once proud Cunard flagship is “a floating wreck” which has been moved from her berth in Dubai Drydocks World to a holding berth in Port Rashid. It appears that the Queen Elizabeth 2 is officially dead, along with all plans for her restoration and move to an unnamed city in Asia, according to a source at Drydocks World. Thanks to Alaric Bond for passing the news along.
That’s a shame, but it’s not like I’d ever go there to see it.
Maybe if I was still working in the M.E, but not now.
Yes it is a shame, one of the beautiful ships that graced the oceans. Now she and another beauty, SS United States lie rotting at their respective piers in Port Rashid and Philadelphia. Both it seems, victims of half baked schemes hatched by people not equipped to carry out same. Ships like these will never sail again. They have been replaced by hotels sitting on top of barges that do little to stir the heart. It would be better and fitting that these proud vessels were towed off shore and sunk, to be used as artificial reefs. Going to the breakers is not a fate that they deserve.
Many Inverclyde people who would love to see the QE2 brought back to the River Clyde where she was built and fitted out.
They should take it to Long Beach and dock it end to end with the QE1. Won’t happen but I think it would work.
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