QE2 News

• 16-10-2013 - The QE2 Heritage Hotel website launches to consult on designs for the refurbishment of the QE2.
• 15-10-2013 - QE2 Holdings announces the appointment of the Chinese shipyard Cosco to refit the QE2.
• 23-08-2013 - More details of plans for the QE2 emerge as her scheduled sailing for a Chinese shipyard nears.
• 07-07-2013 - A new Dubai-based company, QE2 Holding, is formed as the QE2 prepares to leave Dubai for Asia.
• 14-03-2013 - Hong Kong or Singapore is likely to be the new home for the QE2 according to the Oceanic Group.
• 17-01-2013 - The QE2's future appears secure with the announcement that she will move to Asia as a luxury hotel.
• 03-01-2013 - A last chance opportunity to save the Queen Elizabeth 2 could see her brought back to Britain.
• 24-12-2012 - Speculation mounts that the QE2 is heading for a new life in China, or to the scrapyard in 2013.
• 11-11-2012 - Four years pass since the QE2 departed her final voyage from Southampton to Dubai in 2008.
• 28-10-2012 - Rumours circulating on the Internet suggest the QE2 may be heading to the scrapyard.
• 20-09-2012 - 45 years ago Cunard's new liner, Queen Elizabeth 2, was launched by HM Queen Elizabeth II.
• 03-08-2012 - After forty years service Saga Ruby, formerly the Cunard liner Caronia, is to retire in 2014.
• 02-07-2012 - Plans are announced to convert the QE2 into a 300-room luxury hotel at Port Rashid in Dubai.
• 05-06-2012 - Cunard celebrates the Queen's Diamond Jubilee with a unique meeting in Southampton.
• 03-05-2012 - The QE2's role in the Falklands War is remembered during 30th anniversary commemorations.
• 18-04-2012 - Former master of the Queen Elizabeth 2 Captain Robin Woodall passes away, aged 78.
• 22-03-2012 - A new life in Macau, in the People's Republic of China, beckons for the Queen Elizabeth 2.
• 20-02-2012 - Learn about our planned updates for 2012 to celebrate the 45th anniversary of the QE2's launch.
• 15-01-2012 - The QE2 is set to become an exclusive Meetings, Incentives, Conferences and Exhibitions venue.
• 01-01-2012 - For the first time in three years, guests aboard the Queen Elizabeth 2 see in the New Year.
• 14-12-2011 - The Queen Elizabeth 2 is to host an exclusive New Year's Eve party at Port Rashid in Dubai.
• 22-11-2011 - Captain Ian McNaught is appointed Deputy Master and Executive Chairman for Trinity House.
• 11-11-2011 - Three years passes since the QE2 sailed on her final voyage from Southampton to Dubai in 2008.
• 29-10-2011 - Dubai begins preparatory work before the redevelopment of the QE2 as a tourist attraction.
• 28-09-2011 - Proposals surface for the QE2 to return to Britain three years after she left these shores for Dubai.
• 27-09-2011 - Dubai developer Nakheel announces plans for the QE2 to be berthed at Palm Jumeirah are shelved.
• 01-09-2011 - Anchor from the Queen Elizabeth 2 officially unveiled in ceremony on Southampton's 'QE2 Mile'.
• 24-08-2011 - A thousand days in retirement, a thousand days in obscurity: an unwelcome milestone for the QE2.
• 11-07-2011 - One of the QE2's anchors, gifted by Cunard to the City of Southampton, is installed on the 'QE2 Mile'.
• 17-06-2011 - Former master of the Queen Elizabeth 2 Captain Paul Wright retires after 45 years at sea.
• 02-05-2011 - The QE2 Story Forum posts a series of videos from an exclusive visit aboard the QE2 in Dubai.
• 29-04-2011 - Preparations are underway in Southampton for the permanent display of the QE2's anchor this summer.
• 29-03-2011 - The Queen Elizabeth 2 is voted Britain's most famous cruise ship in a survey published today.
• 16-03-2011 - Dramatic photographs show the moment the QE2 broke from her moorings in January.
• 02-02-2011 - The QE2 breaks from her moorings at her berth at Port Rashid during a violent sandstorm.
• 25-01-2011 - Ian McNaught, the QE2's final master, to join Trinity House in September 2011 as new Deputy Master.
• 01-01-2011 - The QE2's bell rings in the new year aboard Cunard's newest ship, the Queen Elizabeth.
• 15-12-2010 - Our QE2 Virtual Tour is updated with more panoramic photographs and new, detailed deck plans.
• 11-11-2010 - Today marks the second anniversary of the QE2's final voyage from Southampton to Dubai.
• 19-10-2010 - One of the QE2's anchors will go on display as part of the 'QE2 Mile' on Southampton's High Street.
• 01-10-2010 - Original historic items from the QE2 are unveiled aboard Cunard's newest ship, the Queen Elizabeth.
• 23-09-2010 - Tugs move the QE2 from her waterfront position at Port Rashid in Dubai to an inner berth.
• 08-09-2010 - The QE2's final captain, Ian McNaught, talks about our QE2 Virtual Tour on the QE2 Story Forum.
• 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.
• 24-12-2008 - Former master of the Queen Elizabeth 2 Captain Peter Jackson passes away, aged 86.
• 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.