QE2 News Stories
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.