you folks have no clue, those seas would make life a living hell for a modern cruise ship. the way the qe2 is taking those seas is very reasonable for the size of those swells. like others have said, stabilizers are for roll not forward to back pitching.
She doing exactly what she was designed to do. Cutting through huge seas at near or full speed. No cruise ship could ever keep pace with her in those seas!
The titanic is taller than the qe2 and its bow is deeper. The Qe2 is not that big of a ship. The first Queen Mary is bigger than this ship and the SS Normandie
Yes, it's smaller than the ships you mention, but still pretty big. I didn't like the QE2 much when it was launched. It was a let down from the old Cunard Queens, but I grew to like it more as the years passed. It's always a shame to see a great ocean liner retired. Today's cruise ships are so downright ugly! They make my eyes burn!
Almost all ships have the same exterior design. It wouldn't hurt for ships to have elegant and a beautiful exterior design. Like the old liners. You could tell them apart from each other by looking at its exterior design.
+g bridgman It is true that Titanic had a deeper draft and was also higher because of her tall funnels but QE2 is 24.5 m longer, 4 m wider and her tonnage is almost 20 000 GRT more. She is the sixth largest ocean liner of all times (QM2 included) Only QM2, QE, QM, Normandie and France were bigger.
Pity she was sold and not retained in Southampton or the clyde or London as a floating hotel or museum. This Falklands veteran certainly deserved to be preserved in the UK. Sad end for her. Mighty ship!
I agree, but at least, after years of decay, they are actually converting her into a floating hotel now. It will most likely open this year. A new website about her exist, the home page is still under construction, but you can look at this: qe2hotels.com/facilities.php
@scaper3 AGREED!!! Fond memories of a truely great liner. It was the best 18th birthday gift money could buy, a ticket to sail on a QE2 westbound transatlantic at the start of its 40th Anniversary Year on its 25th World Cruise. I only wish I could have sailed on her again before she retired.
I was lucky to have spent most of my teenage years wandering her decks for a month or more several times a year. I was also lucky to be on her for the 40th Anniversary Voyage, which was incredible. Was so sad to see her go, but now happy she's FINALLY the floating hotel people wanted. Glad you got to have this experience, and thanks for the video! She sure could handle the seas well!
I was fortunate to be a passenger on board for this final crossing. I had been aboard the QE2 once before and could not pass up the opportunity to be part of history on her final crossing from Southampton to New York. Majestic, and memorable ...... is truly was.
This video footage of my beloved QE2 is nothing less than SPECTACULAR!! THANK YOU! It is so wonderful to see this incredibly elegant ocean Queen in her natural element. For a VERY special treat, reduce the sound on this clip, ( only slightly to reduce the wind noise, but still loud enough to hear the waves ), then overlay the hauntingly beautiful song, SAILING, by Christopher Cross over the top for a treat that will be guaranteed to give you tingles!!! The QE2 Is THE most beautiful liner.PERIOD!
I’m curious: @ 4:20, the bow of the QE2 seems so low in the water. Is this typical of ‘rough seas’? Was she ever in any real danger? This video is fascinating to watch, yet I admit to feeling fearful for the passengers aboard, as well as captain and crew.
That's exactly what she was designed to do, and more. Notice the breakwater in front of the superstructure, that's to handle waves that goes over the bow.
Awesome video. How was this filmed, and where was this filmed? ?The two liners sailed the entire Atlantic side by side? The way she took those swells was magnificent.
Yep! I was on their first tandem crossing in April 2004; both ships follow each other across, a distance apart, and sometimes switch positions. This was taken from Queen Mary 2 on her Boat Deck
I am very surprised at the level of pitching of the QE2 in what only looks like a moderate sea. She has obviously weathered the north Atlantic for 39 years successfuly but I never knew she pitched so much.
There were long swells, the QE2 behaved actually a lot better in these waves than any average modern cruise ship of the same size would behave. There is a true story from january 2008 when QE2 and the new MS Queen Victoria did a Transatlantic crossing together, when a storm hit them. There was a little chaos onboard the QV but the journey on the QE2 was still pretty smooth.
No more pitching than any other similar length ship in the long swells shown. My Dad was onboard QE2 for the January 2008 tandem and a family friend was on QV. There was and is no contest as to which ship faired better in the long swells that also occurred on some days of that transatlantic. My parents and I were onboard QM2 for the return (Eastbound) tandem in October 2008 (the voyage after the one shown in this video and QE2's final transatlantic) which had it's choppy moments too with long swells which both QM2 and QE2 cut through effortlessly as designed and with similar levels of pitching (QM2 also yawing a lot with her lack of rudder and despite her massive skeg). Looks can be deceiving when viewing the sea/ocean from high up onboard too, normally looking much calmer than it actually is, something that becomes very clear when tendering at anchor ports and can make for "interesting" experiences. My Dad's channel for his videos including QM2 and QE2 being: JimJamPixel The above is spoken through experience from 6 voyages on QE2 between 2003 and 2008 inclusive (including one transatlantic), and a Force 9 gusting Force 10 passage through the Bay of Biscay in October 2004 at 29 knots in order to make up time on leaving Southampton 6 hours late which we did - arriving in Vigo on time. I have also travelled on QM2 5 times between 2008 and 2014 inclusive including three transatlantics for an almost identical number of nights onboard each ship over the years. I will always be very grateful to my parents for their hard work in allowing us to go on these voyages as they were all made in childhood and my first at 6 years old in 2003.
@scabbycat The addition of the penthouses on the top decks and the larger funnel changed the QE2's centre of gravity (moved it forward), and increased the pitch. You are right these are moderate seas and the QE2 is pitching noticeably.
unstable? you put any modern cruise ship aside of the QM2 in those seas and watch how bad they ride. the QE2 is and an ocean liner built for those conditions.
orlando carr Actually, 9 months earlier, I was on QE2 sailing in tandem with Queen Victoria. The seas were much rougher than depicted here - pics from the QV show the bulbous bow completely airborne!. The QV didn't fair so well... lots of water over her bows and friends on her reported water flooding forward staterooms and passageways with a great many sea sick. I have to say that though pitching was felt and the old girl creaked and groaned, at no time did the QE2 ever feel unstable to me and I neither saw nor heard a single person experience seasickness
I'm sorry if I was not there to sale on the QE2 at that time. I'm going by what I see on the video Baritonebynight watch ya mouth!!! I'll say some profane words that will hurt your feelings!!!!! :-)
