QE2 News Stories

• 19-08-2010 - Hundreds of mourners attend the funeral of former Glasgow shipyard union leader Jimmy Reid.
• 21-07-2010 - Ian McNaught, the QE2's final captain, talks about the liner in a BBC Radio Scotland interview.
• 25-06-2010 - Members of 'The QE2 Story' forum meet to celebrate the world's most famous ocean liner.
• 29-05-2010 - The QE2's former running mate, Saga Rose (ex Sagafjord), heads to the breakers yard at Jiangyin.
• 08-04-2010 - The QE2 was allegedly used to smuggle weapons from New York to Britain in the early 1970s.
• 16-03-2010 - Photographs of an "abandoned and unchanged" QE2 in Dubai appear in a British newspaper.
• 08-02-2010 - Istithmar confirms the QE2 will not be positioned in Cape Town for the 2010 Football World Cup.
• 22-01-2010 - Captain Ian McNaught, the QE2's final captain, leaves Cunard for the Yachts of Seabourn cruise line.
• 12-12-2009 - The on-going global recession forces Dubai World to delay debt payments for six months.
• 11-11-2009 - One year ago today the QE2 departed from Southampton on her final voyage to retirement in Dubai.
• 21-10-2009 - Nine hundred visitors to this QE2 Farewell Tribute website in the two months following our launch.
• 16-09-2009 - Uncertainty surrounds plans for the QE2 to sail to Cape Town for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.
• 29-08-2009 - Reports state that the QE2 has been registered by her owners in the South Pacific islands of Vanuatu.
• 20-07-2009 - Nahkeel have confirmed rumours that the QE2 may be temporarily moved to Cape Town in South Africa.
• 23-06-2009 - The local press in Southampton reports that QE2 may make a dramatic return to Southampton.
• 26-05-2009 - After six months in Dubai the QE2 remains largely untouched as rumours about her future continue.
• 02-05-2009 - The QE2 marks the fortieth anniversary of her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York.
• 27-11-2008 - Ownership of the QE2 is transferred from the Cunard Line to Nakheel during a ceremony in Dubai.
• 26-11-2008 - The QE2 arrives in Dubai to be greeted by a flotilla of boats and a fly-past by an Emirates Airbus A380.
• 11-11-2008 - The QE2 makes her final departure from Southampton en-route to retirement in Dubai.