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| On February 10th, 2009, Cunard's current flagship Queen Mary 2 arrived on her world cruise. It was a little sad for me because this was the first year that I couldn't come down and see QE2 make the same arrival but it seemed like every ship geek in Los Angeles was looking forward to seeing her. There were two boats chartered to watch her departure, the Rocket Boat out of Long Beach and the Spirit out of San Pedro. Since the Rocket Boat was a fundraiser for the Steamship Historical Society of America's youth education program aboard QM I decided to take that charter. The members of the group, some of us pictured in the following, had a great time discussing the differences and similarities of the two QMs as we whittled away our three hour cruise, culminating in the lovely five year old liner's departure from our home port. As we departed Long Beach I couldn't resist a few snapshots of Queen Mary. | |||||||||
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| It took us about an hour to work our way around to the inside of the breakwater and then with great excitement it was time for the main event! The little boat you can see passing us is the Spirit and the others admiring QM2 waving at us as we pass each other in front of the Queen. Ships geeks of the world unite! | |||||||||
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| (C) Copyright Amy Blume 10th & 28th February 2009 Not to be reproduced without permission |
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