QM2 location (Merged threads)

[exlondoner]

20 minutes ago, sogne said:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/05/08/queen-mary-2-sets-sail-new-york-spitfire-send-ve-day-commemoration/  

As the BBC says, that was a Hurricane, not a Spitfire. You'd think the Telegraph would get that right.

[Host Hattie]

10 hours ago, bluemarble said:

 

Slightly longer version of that same story here including a quote from Captain Hashmi. Same video.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-hampshire-61370296

 

Interesting that NCL Getaway is more visible in the video than QM2 but wasn't mentioned.

Thanks for posting the longer story, I guess NCL Getaway just happened to be docked in the way while the flyover was over QM2.

[sogne]

the Telegraph photo shows the last wreath being handed to Captain Hall 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[D&N]

7 hours ago, exlondoner said:

As the BBC says, that was a Hurricane, not a Spitfire. You'd think the Telegraph would get that right.

The BBC changed the nationality of Columbian doubles tennis players to Spanish last night! Article not been edited yet. 😂

[mcloaked]

Just to add to the thread:

[Host Hattie]

Great photo

[bluemarble]

I think @mcloaked's photo may be from this article in the Daily Echo titled "21 photos show Hurricane fly over Queen Mary 2 in Southampton for VE Day".

 

https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/20123149.21-photos-show-hurricane-fly-queen-mary-2-southampton-ve-day/

[bluemarble]

QM2 had a bit of a (presumably coincidental) fireboat send-off from Southampton this evening as she approached Calshot. This is a capture from the Netley Cam stream on the Solent Ships YouTube channel.

 

[bluemarble]

Here's a view of QM2's arrival at Southampton in the morning sun today. This is a capture from the Netley Cam stream on the Solent Ships YouTube channel.

 

[techteach]

Trying to spot @D&N

[bluemarble]

1 hour ago, techteach said:

Trying to spot @D&N

 

We may have just missed @D&N. Here's a zoom-in the webcam did a few minutes later where I've circled what I believe was their balcony based on the evidence provided in their blog thread.

 

[sogne]

48 minutes ago, bluemarble said:

 

We may have just missed @D&N. Here's a zoom-in the webcam did a few minutes later where I've circled what I believe was their balcony based on the evidence provided in their blog thread.

 

Departure today is 1730

[D&N]

4 hours ago, sogne said:

Departure today is 1730

 

5 hours ago, bluemarble said:

 

We may have just missed @D&N. Here's a zoom-in the webcam did a few minutes later where I've circled what I believe was their balcony based on the evidence provided in their blog thread.

 

Ha ha ha.

You deserve the Sherlock Holmes Prize for investigation!!!

Not a washing line in sight either!

At 05:04:00 you would have caught me on the balcony in Cunard Robe photographing the sunrise!

So 5 minutes 12 seconds too late. Absolutely brilliant.

 

We're no longer there of course.

British Airways kindly advanced us to the flight 3 hours earlier than booked and we were back home at 15:15 French time

[techteach]

Yeah, I was looking for the work-out laundry hanging on the balcony!

[sogne]

1600 on board  as we approach Hamburg but rumour has it that 2200 on.next TA 

[D&N]

20 hours ago, techteach said:

Yeah, I was looking for the work-out laundry hanging on the balcony!

Most of you may have guessed that it was staged.

It had in fact dried the day before but I re-hung a selection of items intending to try and get the photo.

[techteach]

@D&N How were your cats when you got home? Were you punished for being gone so long?

[D&N]

30 minutes ago, techteach said:

@D&N How were your cats when you got home? Were you punished for being gone so long?

Well spoiled. We imported a niece & nephew (her husband) from Scotland for 9 days, who were joined and replaced by her young sister who departs tomorrow. Their Dad joined for a few days so the younger one wasn't alone too long.

They had a few days to get to know their cousins before we left and their other cousin has stayed before and they seem to recognise people who have been before and permitted them to chew their hair.

If we're away a couple of nights the neighbours drop in but for this length of time they like servants to be on hand!

[bluemarble]

I'm a bit late to the game today, but I couldn't pass up an opportunity to post another image of QM2 gleaming in the morning sun. Here is a capture showing QM2's arrival at New York this morning. In this view she has just about completed the turn to start backing into the berth at the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal. This capture is from the "New York City Harbor, Waterfront Museum, Brooklyn NY USA" stream on StreamTime Live's YouTube channel.

 

[bluemarble]

Here is a view of QM2 at Bar Harbor, Maine today. This is a capture from one of the webcams hosted by the Bluenose Inn in Bar Harbor. I am posting this image with the kind permission of the Bluenose Inn.

 

[bluemarble]

It's a rainy day for QM2 in Halifax today. Here's a view from the Westin Nova Scotian Hotel Pier 21 webcam found at "www.novascotiawebcams.com/en/webcams/pier-21/". I'm posting this screenshot per the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License on the site's copyright notice.

 

[Yaldi]

Rain or shine Halifax is one of my favourite ports. It is good to see Queen Mary 2 calling there again.

[bluemarble]

QM2 is in Cadiz today. Here is a view from another of the Skyline webcams. This is their Port of Cádiz camera hosted by La Costa de Cádiz at "www.lacostadecadiz.com/webcam-cadiz-5-puerto-de-cadiz/".

 

[bluemarble]

QM2 has arrived at Villefranche-sur-Mer. There's a reasonably good view of QM2 through the masts of the boats in the marina here on this "Webcam port départemental de la Darse" YouTube live stream.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMdjdYPEs1w

 

Unfortunately I have not yet received responses to requests for permission to post an image from this webcam from three different entities I have asked about it. So I'll just post a link to the webcam instead. With any luck, @D&N will be able to post a photo of QM2 at Villefranche-sur-Mer here later today.

[D&N]

This was QM2 a little earlier this morning on approach.  The air wasn't clear enough to get a sharper picture, and she is about 8.5 miles away.

 

The land jutting out to left is the South Western tip of the Nice Airport runway, and the spiky lighting gantries in the foreground are on the bridge over the River Loup on the departmental road RD6098.

 

I'll see what we get later.