Queen Elizabeth Position

[Bigmike911]

Using the cameras of YouTuber Solent Ships. I was able to watch Queen Elizabeth depart Southampton this evening. She was bedecked in light and looked quite regal sliding down Southampton Water. 

[bluemarble]

Hurray! The Queen Elizabeth bridge webcam is back up again after a very long hiatus. To celebrate, here is the view from the Ocean Terminal in Southampton as QE is within a couple hours of departure for her next British Isles cruise.

 

[watsonbeau]

Just passing Cowes at 19:00hrs

[Bigmike911]

Using The QE Webcam and the Cruisemapper current position, QE is off the Western Isles of Scotland headed to Liverpool. She should arrive there tomorrow and we should get some good Liverpool camera shots. 

[Ray66]

QE in Liverpool today

 

https://www.wirralcam.org/wirralcam2016/waterfront2.shtml

[Liverpoolgirl175]

What a wonderful sight on our walk this morning. There across the river Mersey from our viewpoint on the promenade at Seacombe , Queen Elizabeth.

She is moored at the Liverpool Pierhead alongside the Three Graces namely , The Liver building, The Cunard building and The Port of Liverpool building.

I hope everyone on board is enjoying my wonderful city!

[Bigmike911]

QE is on her way to Southampton tonight, having left Liverpool for Belfast, and then over to Greenoch and now headed back to Southampton. I guess this is intended to giver her more 'sea' time, or perhaps to accommodate port availabilities, as there are several other cruise ships in the area. 

[bluemarble]

26 minutes ago, Bigmike911 said:

QE is on her way to Southampton tonight, having left Liverpool for Belfast, and then over to Greenoch and now headed back to Southampton. I guess this is intended to giver her more 'sea' time, or perhaps to accommodate port availabilities, as there are several other cruise ships in the area. 

 

My understanding is QE will be doing a couple days of "Scottish Isles Scenic Cruising" before heading back to Southampton. More specifically, one online itinerary lists "Isle of Mull Scenic Cruising". I figure she might be on her way to the Isle of Mull at the moment, possibly for a circuit of that island as she's done on a couple of the previous staycation cruises this summer.

Edited September 21, 2021 by bluemarble

[Ray66]

The QE was due to be in Holyhead, North Wales tomorrow 22nd September but I think someone mentioned there has been damage to the pier there. Other Holyhead dates were to have been 8th September and 11th October.

 

She's due back in Southampton on 24th September.

[Bigmike911]

11 hours ago, bluemarble said:

 

My understanding is QE will be doing a couple days of "Scottish Isles Scenic Cruising" before heading back to Southampton. More specifically, one online itinerary lists "Isle of Mull Scenic Cruising". I figure she might be on her way to the Isle of Mull at the moment, possibly for a circuit of that island as she's done on a couple of the previous staycation cruises this summer.

I think you are right Blue Marble, The Cruisemapper map showed her headed northwest from Greenoch, which is not the direct route to Southampton. I wondered if she was going to undo her track and go back over Scotland and come down the East Coast, but Scenic crusing in the Western Isles makes more sense. At present, the cruisemapper shows her off Mull and headed southeast. 

Edited September 21, 2021 by Bigmike911

[tim2go]

I can confirm that we are currently scenic cruising! Just been through the Sound of Mull.

[exlondoner]

9 minutes ago, tim2go said:

I can confirm that we are currently scenic cruising! Just been through the Sound of Mull.

 

And have you been having a very nice time?

[tim2go]

On 9/21/2021 at 3:44 PM, exlondoner said:

 

And have you been having a very nice time?

We were thank you. Back home now unfortunately. 🙁

[bluemarble]

QE appears to be skipping Vigo today. She got a late start out of Southampton Sunday evening because of the weather and as a result her scheduled arrival time at Vigo today (as reported by AIS) had been adjusted to 13:15. But now it's well past that time and she is sailing past Vigo. Her next scheduled port of call is Lisbon tomorrow.

 

By the way, the counts of those on board this cruise as reported by QE to Southampton VTS Sunday evening are 1378 passengers and 982 crew.

[bluemarble]

It's been a while since we've seen QE on a port of call webcam. She has been in Santa Cruz de Tenerife today. Here's a good view of QE as seen earlier this afternoon from the "Santa Cruz de Tenerife - Plaza de España Live cam" on the Skyline Webcams website ("www.skylinewebcams.com"). I am posting this image here with the kind permission of Skyline Webcams.

 

[Host Hattie]

Looking good

[bluemarble]

Here's a webcam image of QE in Alesund, Norway today. This is from the "Waterfront" webcam on the Alesund Port Authority website at "alesund.havn.no".

 

[Host Hattie]

Looks like a beautiful day there

[turnip eater]

It is, a bit chilly in the wind, but so sunny.Beautiful town😊

[rakkor]

2 hours ago, Host Hattie said:

Looks like a beautiful day there

It's been absolutely gorgeous - https://blog.rakkor..uk for my write up

[Host Hattie]

33 minutes ago, rakkor said:

It's been absolutely gorgeous - https://blog.rakkor..uk for my write up

I'm loving the reports, thank you

[LadyL1]

4 hours ago, bluemarble said:

Here's a webcam image of QE in Alesund, Norway today. This is from the "Waterfront" webcam on the Alesund Port Authority website at "alesund.havn.no".

 

Fortunately we are in the starboard side and had the sun all day!

[bluemarble]

Here's an image of QE's departure from Lisbon this afternoon captured from the "Câmara VTS" live webcam stream on the Tejo Live page of the Port of Lisbon website at "www.portodelisboa.pt/en/tejo-live".

 

I thought it might be worth posting this image since it is likely to be quite a few years until QE calls at Lisbon again.

 

[bluemarble]

Here's a shot of QE shining in the setting sun as she departed Southampton a short time ago for her cruise to the Mediterranean, This is a capture from the Netley Cam stream on the Solent Ships YouTube channel.

 

[bluemarble]

I don't think we've seen a webcam image from Civitavecchia on this thread yet. Here's QE (right) at Civitavecchia this morning along with MSC Poesia (left) and Azamara Quest (center right). I think you can also make out just a bit of Star Legend at the far right.

 

This image is from the EarthCam webcam at "https://myearthcam.com/darsenaromanacv". It is posted here with the kind permission of EarthCam.