exlondoner Posted June 1 #5376 Share Posted June 1 I imagine that, given it was an RN base, it is possible that requisitioned Cunard ships may have called there in one of the world wars. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluemarble Posted June 1 #5377 Share Posted June 1 12 minutes ago, Eddie99 said: Here’s my pic from the cruise-specific thread The little friend is the French ship Renaissance (1100pax) Thank you. That's a much better view than mine! Welcome to our game, @Eddie99. It's always good to see new contributors to this amazing thread. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Eddie99 Posted June 2 #5378 Share Posted June 2 Final pic, from a local Facecloth site. See the kite-flyers having a good look! Looking forward to joining QM next year, and hopefully travelling further than Portland 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare babs135 Posted June 2 #5379 Share Posted June 2 Okay, I'll admit that this one is just for fun and doesn't truly fit the criteria but it's a Sunday afternoon and I'm bored!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exlondoner Posted June 2 #5380 Share Posted June 2 Leith perhaps? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare D&N Posted June 2 #5381 Share Posted June 2 53 minutes ago, exlondoner said: Leith perhaps? Think you are right. Initially thought the quay there is much more substantial and she's facing the wrong way, but there is a photo showing this less substantial structure on her starboard side with that motor launch. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare babs135 Posted June 2 #5382 Share Posted June 2 Correct it is Leith. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Eddie99 Posted June 2 #5383 Share Posted June 2 My apologies I know I said it was my last pic of Queen Mary 2 in Portland, but this is such a good picture from Friday (was it Friday? - I lose track) If any Queens make it to Portland again, this will be a useful picture to identify their location. See the harbour walls and the Jurassic Coast in the distance 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Host Hattie Posted June 2 Author #5384 Share Posted June 2 Great photo, thanks for posting 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare NE John Posted June 24 #5385 Share Posted June 24 @sfred and @bluemarble Here are some maiden plaques I found on QE… 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfred Posted June 24 #5386 Share Posted June 24 Thanks @NE John. I also noticed QE's Port Lincoln South Australia plaque during our February voyage. That one went up on the wall rather quickly. Perhaps QE never got any plaques from the five maiden calls to to Fiji/Vanuatu/New Caledonia in February. The two new Japan ones look very nice! Thanks again, and also for your Alaska postings. Hope your trip continues to go well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare NE John Posted June 24 #5387 Share Posted June 24 1 hour ago, sfred said: Thanks @NE John. I also noticed QE's Port Lincoln South Australia plaque during our February voyage. That one went up on the wall rather quickly. Perhaps QE never got any plaques from the five maiden calls to to Fiji/Vanuatu/New Caledonia in February. The two new Japan ones look very nice! Thanks again, and also for your Alaska postings. Hope your trip continues to go well. I don’t also see any “Pearls of the Black Sea” maiden call plaques we went on in Oct. 2012. The Japanese ports of call artwork is second to none. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare NE John Posted June 26 #5388 Share Posted June 26 View of QE from Douglas Island across from Juneau. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare 2BACRUISER Posted June 27 #5389 Share Posted June 27 (edited) Don't think a Cunard ship has called here but was new to us on our most recent cruise this month. Edited June 27 by 2BACRUISER Add info 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfred Posted June 27 #5390 Share Posted June 27 (edited) 1 hour ago, 2BACRUISER said: Don't think a Cunard ship has called here but was new to us on our most recent cruise this month. Thanks @2BACRUISER. This is Taranto, Italy. Very nice photos. The first is the Castello Aragonese, and the second and third are of the Monumento al Marinaio. I think you are correct that the current Cunard fleet has not been to Taranto. However, I suspected that perhaps some Cunard ship had been there in the past, particularly during WW1 or WW2 as a hospital or troop ship. I found the following reference in Wikipedia for MV Britannic, which although originally a White Star Line ship, also sailed for Cunard after the 1934 merger. She was requisitioned during WW2 as a troop ship. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MV_Britannic_(1929) "Between November 1943 and May 1944 Britannic made four transatlantic round trips: two to New York and two to Boston. She then took 3,288 troops with Convoy KMF 32 from Liverpool to Port Said in Egypt. She made two round trips between there and Taranto in Italy and then took 2,940 troops to Liverpool, where she arrived on 11 August." On this basis, perhaps we can count Taranto as a "seen" Cunard port? @bluemarble is currently on QM2 returning to NY, but will perhaps see this at some point and provide a ruling. Thanks again, @2BACRUISER. Edited June 27 by sfred 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluemarble Posted June 27 #5391 Share Posted June 27 (edited) 6 hours ago, sfred said: Thanks @2BACRUISER. This is Taranto, Italy. Very nice photos. The first is the Castello Aragonese, and the second and third are of the Monumento al Marinaio. I think you are correct that the current Cunard fleet has not been to Taranto. However, I suspected that perhaps some Cunard ship had been there in the past, particularly during WW1 or WW2 as a hospital or troop ship. I found the following reference in Wikipedia for MV Britannic, which although originally a White Star Line ship, also sailed for Cunard after the 1934 merger. She was requisitioned during WW2 as a troop ship. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MV_Britannic_(1929) "Between November 1943 and May 1944 Britannic made four transatlantic round trips: two to New York and two to Boston. She then took 3,288 troops with Convoy KMF 32 from Liverpool to Port Said in Egypt. She made two round trips between there and Taranto in Italy and then took 2,940 troops to Liverpool, where she arrived on 11 August." On this basis, perhaps we can count Taranto as a "seen" Cunard port? @bluemarble is currently on QM2 returning to NY, but will perhaps see this at some point and provide a ruling. Thanks again, @2BACRUISER. Based on your research, @sfred, I think we should add Taranto, Italy to our seen Cunard ports list with the double asterisk footnote notation indicating "wartime service call" similar to our entry for Luderitz, Namibia. Edited June 27 by bluemarble 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clewgarnet Posted June 27 #5392 Share Posted June 27 I may be cheating a little, especially as it isn't even a Cunard ship in the photo, but it was taken from a Cunard ship, so I think it counts! (Even if the Cunarder in question had swapped her RMS for an HMS at the time.) 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare 2BACRUISER Posted June 27 #5393 Share Posted June 27 Thanks @sfred and @bluemarble really interesting history lesson. I was impressed by Taranto although we docked in the industrial port shuttle buses were provided to the castle think it was €5 each all day use. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare NE John Posted June 27 #5394 Share Posted June 27 Another picture of QE from the picture perfect town of Haines, Alaska: 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfred Posted June 27 #5395 Share Posted June 27 10 hours ago, bluemarble said: Based on your research, @sfred, I think we should add Taranto, Italy to our seen Cunard ports list with the double asterisk footnote notation indicating "wartime service call" similar to our entry for Luderitz, Namibia. Thanks @bluemarble. Port 661 in the Where in the World game, number 32 in Italy, and number 197 in the former Roman empire. MV Britannia was rather interesting research. Built in 1930 for White Star Line prior to the Cunard merger, she was powered by two diesel engines, which were new maritime technology in that day. It made for efficient operation in contrast to coal or oil fired steam boilers, and she was one of only three White Star ships (along with Georgic and Laurentic) to be retained by Cunard until finally being scrapped in 1961. Taranto looks like a nice port. Coincidentally, Mrs. sfred was watching one of the Stanley Tucci "Searching for Italy" shows earlier this week, and the episode was in the Taranto/Bari/Brindisi region of Italy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfred Posted June 29 #5396 Share Posted June 29 On 6/27/2024 at 7:56 PM, Clewgarnet said: I may be cheating a little, especially as it isn't even a Cunard ship in the photo, but it was taken from a Cunard ship, so I think it counts! (Even if the Cunarder in question had swapped her RMS for an HMS at the time.) It's been a few days, so I'll go ahead and identify this photo from @Clewgarnet. This is RMS Olympic at the White Star Pier in New York. Smoke is visible from funnels 2 and 3, so she may have been either preparing for departure or recently arrived. An interesting operational question - most historic photos I've seen of liners at the old Manhattan west side piers are bow-in. Was there a particular reason for this? What made it easier for the ship and tugs to arrive forward and depart backward, versus the other way around? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare D&N Posted June 29 #5397 Share Posted June 29 5 minutes ago, sfred said: An interesting operational question - most historic photos I've seen of liners at the old Manhattan west side piers are bow-in. Was there a particular reason for this? What made it easier for the ship and tugs to arrive forward and depart backward, versus the other way around? I've really no idea. I thought perhaps to reduce risk of damage to rudder or screws? And nowadays the azipods on modern ships? I was thinking about it earlier when someone commented that QM2's bow would stick out into Hudson and thought she wouldn't be that way round. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exlondoner Posted June 30 #5398 Share Posted June 30 11 hours ago, sfred said: It's been a few days, so I'll go ahead and identify this photo from @Clewgarnet. This is RMS Olympic at the White Star Pier in New York. Smoke is visible from funnels 2 and 3, so she may have been either preparing for departure or recently arrived. An interesting operational question - most historic photos I've seen of liners at the old Manhattan west side piers are bow-in. Was there a particular reason for this? What made it easier for the ship and tugs to arrive forward and depart backward, versus the other way around? Which Cunard ship was it taken from? Perhaps it is simply that there is more space to aim at when backing out? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfred Posted June 30 #5399 Share Posted June 30 22 hours ago, sfred said: It's been a few days, so I'll go ahead and identify this photo from @Clewgarnet. This is RMS Olympic at the White Star Pier in New York. Smoke is visible from funnels 2 and 3, so she may have been either preparing for departure or recently arrived. Edit: Apologies, I didn't do enough google research when finding the photo that @Clewgarnet posted. This is not RMS Olympic at NY, but rather Olympic at Halifax. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clewgarnet Posted June 30 #5400 Share Posted June 30 10 hours ago, exlondoner said: Which Cunard ship was it taken from? Perhaps it is simply that there is more space to aim at when backing out? Caronia, during her time on the Halifax station in WWI. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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