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[North West Newbie]

91. Ny-Alesund

 

Sorry @exlondoner, I am working late into the early hours and couldn't resist the temptation.

[bluemarble]

Thanks to everyone who joined in for any of the rounds of our port name anagram game. I hope you found it enjoyable. I found it intriguing to devise the anagrams even with the assistance of an anagram generator web site for the longer port names and to check my work on the shorter port names. I would not have figured out you can make the word "Madagascar" from "Las Palmas de Gran Canaria" on my own, I can assure you.

[sfred]

7 minutes ago, bluemarble said:

Thanks to everyone who joined in for any of the rounds of our port name anagram game. I hope you found it enjoyable. I found it intriguing to devise the anagrams even with the assistance of an anagram generator web site for the longer port names and to check my work on the shorter port names. I would not have figured out you can make the word "Madagascar" from "Las Palmas de Gran Canaria" on my own, I can assure you.

A big thanks, @bluemarble, for being our anagram game show host.  Much appreciated.  It was really good fun.

[bluemarble]

Here's another Cunard itinerary trivia question as promised.

 

Where and when have any of the current Cunard ships spent three or more consecutive nights (four or more consecutive calendar days) at the same location with guests on board?

 

It's not at all unusual for a ship to overnight in a port. It's also not out of the ordinary for a ship to spend two consecutive nights in the same place (some of Cunard's calls at Venice for example). But it is unusual for the current Cunard ships to spend three or more consecutive nights (four or more consecutive calendar days) in the same location.

 

I am only looking for situations where guests were accommodated, beginning with the maiden voyage for each of the current ships through the suspension of operations earlier this year. I'm not considering any time spent in refit/drydock or any time spent in layup after the last guests disembarked on March 15th of this year for QE, March 28th for QV and April 15th for QM2.

 

Also, I'll be very lenient about the "when" part of this question. I'm not necessarily looking for exact dates. The month (or even approximate time of year) and the year will be good enough.

 

I know of only three such instances, two scheduled and one unscheduled, but it would not surprise me at all if you come up with other cases that I am not aware of.

[sfred]

Not sure if this complies with the contest guidelines, but here goes...

 

From 27 March 27 to 2 April 2020 (six nights), Queen Mary 2 was at the port of Durban South Africa.  She was heading home to Southampton from Fremantle Australia after the original world cruise itinerary was suspended.  She was in Durban to disembark several crew members and replenish stores and fuel, and it took a little longer than anticipated to obtain the necessary clearances.  There were 264 passengers onboard, although the usual entertainment and onboard activities had been cancelled.

 

I think this might satisfy the rules, as @bluemarble specified only that guests had to be accommodated onboard during the port stay, not that they also had to be able to get on or off.

 

QM2 also spent an extra night in Fremantle before leaving Australia, departing the evening of 16 March rather than the original schedule of 14 March, but only for a total of three days and two nights, so that doesn't count.

[bluemarble]

Well done @sfred. QM2's time at Durban earlier this year is one of the instances I had in mind (the unscheduled one). If I have it figured correctly, my count is four nights for QM2 just outside Durban at Durban Anchorage, which satisfies the criteria for the question, and then two additional nights within Durban Harbour itself.

[exlondoner]

7 hours ago, North West Newbie said:

91. Ny-Alesund

 

Sorry @exlondoner, I am working late into the early hours and couldn't resist the temptation.

 

I suspected I wouldn't be in time. 😀

[Yaldi]

Queen Mary 2 was based in Piraeus as accommodation during the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens.

 

[bluemarble]

Very good, @Yaldi. QM2 was in Piraeus on Aug 11-30, 2004 serving as accommodation for the 2004 Olympics. That's one of the two scheduled instances I am aware of.

 

[exlondoner]

7 hours ago, bluemarble said:

Thanks to everyone who joined in for any of the rounds of our port name anagram game. I hope you found it enjoyable. I found it intriguing to devise the anagrams even with the assistance of an anagram generator web site for the longer port names and to check my work on the shorter port names. I would not have figured out you can make the word "Madagascar" from "Las Palmas de Gran Canaria" on my own, I can assure you.

 

Perhaps we should think of you as Mule Rabble hereafter.

[Colin_Cameron]

Following her Maiden Crossing QM2 was in New York from 22nd - 25th April 2004.

 

However on 23rd and 24th she went out for day-trips with press and travel agents aboard (they really were guests, not passengers😁) so I'm not sure if you're going to count this one.

[exlondoner]

Did something happen after 9/11? Did QM2 get stuck in, say, Halifax with passengers on board? I'm just trying to think of unusual circumstances.

[North West Newbie]

QM2 in Rio de Janeiro 21-24 February, 2004.

Edited December 1, 2020 by North West Newbie
To identify the ship

[Colin_Cameron]

47 minutes ago, exlondoner said:

Did something happen after 9/11? Did QM2 get stuck in, say, Halifax with passengers on board? I'm just trying to think of unusual circumstances.

Unlikely as 9/11 was two and a half years before QM2 sailed. (Twenty years next year!)

[exlondoner]

33 minutes ago, Colin_Cameron said:

Unlikely as 9/11 was two and a half years before QM2 sailed. (Twenty years next year!)

 

Oooops, wrong ship.

[bluemarble]

1 hour ago, Colin_Cameron said:

Following her Maiden Crossing QM2 was in New York from 22nd - 25th April 2004.

 

However on 23rd and 24th she went out for day-trips with press and travel agents aboard (they really were guests, not passengers😁) so I'm not sure if you're going to count this one.

 

I should count this if QM2 was back in port in New York each night. The itineraries I have from qm2.org.uk show her in New York on April 22nd and 23rd, at sea on the 24th, and then back in New York on the 25th. But if those were just day trips each day and she was back in New York to overnight with guests on board (press, travel agents or otherwise) on each of those dates, then that does qualify according to the criteria I laid out of consecutive nights in the same location. That's one I was not aware of.

Edited December 1, 2020 by bluemarble

[Colin_Cameron]

How long did QM2 sit in Ft Lauderdale after scraping the side of the channel and damaging one of her pods? (Jan 2006?)

[bluemarble]

1 hour ago, North West Newbie said:

QM2 in Rio de Janeiro 21-24 February, 2004.

 

This is the other case I was aware of. QM2 was in Rio for four days, three nights for Carnival in 2004.

[Colin_Cameron]

5 minutes ago, bluemarble said:

 

I should count this if QM2 was back in port in New York each night. The itineraries I have from qm2.org.uk show her in New York on April 22nd and 23rd, at sea on the 24th, and then back in New York on the 25th. 

Hmm. Now I'm beginning to doubt my memory. 

[bluemarble]

12 minutes ago, Colin_Cameron said:

How long did QM2 sit in Ft Lauderdale after scraping the side of the channel and damaging one of her pods? (Jan 2006?)

 

The news reports I'm finding have QM2 returning to Fort Lauderdale on January 17th, 2006 after damaging one of the pods but then was intending to sail again using the remaining functional pods on January 18th. Subsequent reports I'm seeing indicate she may have actually departed Fort Lauderdale again early on the morning of January 19th. In either case I don't think this one qualifies, but it was certainly worth mentioning as a possibility.

[bluemarble]

29 minutes ago, Colin_Cameron said:

Hmm. Now I'm beginning to doubt my memory. 

 

Here's a webpage I found which tends to indicate that QM2 may have been planning to be at sea during the night of April 23/24, 2004. I certainly can't vouch for what actually happened though.

 

Queen Mary 2 Public Viewing - NYC.gov

 

Quoting the pertinent portion:

• April 22: QM2 will arrive at Statue of Liberty at about 6:45 a.m. and sail up the Hudson River to the New York Cruise Terminal (formerly Passenger Ship Terminal) for 8 a.m. arrival. FDNY Fireboats will escort the ship with colorful water display
   
• April 23: QM2 will depart the cruise terminal at about 11:30 a.m.
   
• April 24: QM2 will arrive in the harbor close to 6 a.m. and at the cruise terminal by 7 a.m.
   
• April 25: both QM2 and QE2 will depart from the cruise terminal, at 7:30 p.m. and 7:45 p.m. respectively, sail down the Hudson River and slowly pass the Statue of Liberty at 8:30 p.m. with a fireworks display by Grucci.

[Colin_Cameron]

2 hours ago, bluemarble said:

• April 22: QM2 will arrive at Statue of Liberty at about 6:45 a.m. and sail up the Hudson River

Yup. I definitely remember that bit.

 

2 hours ago, bluemarble said:

• April 23: QM2 will depart the cruise terminal at about 11:30 a.m.

And that bit. We were on Ellis Island.

 

2 hours ago, bluemarble said:

• April 25: both QM2 and QE2 will depart from the cruise terminal, at 7:30 p.m. and 7:45 p.m. respectively, sail down the Hudson River and slowly pass the Statue of Liberty at 8:30 p.m. with a fireworks display by Grucci.

And that bit. We were on the Circle Line sightseeing trip to watch the sailaways and the fireworks.

 

This is the bit that makes me wonder:

2 hours ago, bluemarble said:

• April 24: QM2 will arrive in the harbor close to 6 a.m. and at the cruise terminal by 7 a.m.

I have a memory (real or imagined?) of watching her sail past, from somewhere on the Manhattan shore, at some point. And I can guarantee it wasn't at that time of the morning😄. 

 

But no matter. If people were only out for day trips then they probably didn't stay aboard at night anyway.

 

 

[ExArkie]

2 hours ago, bluemarble said:

 

Here's a webpage I found which tends to indicate that QM2 may have been planning to be at sea during the night of April 23/24, 2004. I certainly can't vouch for what actually happened though.

...

The New York Times article from April 23, 2004, indicates that the planned outing was an overnight out of the harbor. In the part about the harbor pilot, who apparently retired on the day after he brought QM2 into New York harbor: "...But not before he takes the Queen Mary 2 out this morning for an overnight invitational cruise, out of the harbor he brought it into yesterday..." This aligns with the schedule that you cited. There wasn't a follow-up article in the Times indicating that something different happened, which may or may not mean anything.

 

I don't know if this is a subscription-only page (I am a subscriber, so it showed it to me regardless), but the article is here: https://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/23/nyregion/a-queen-arrives-and-even-in-jaded-new-york-jaws-drop.html

 

 

Edited December 1, 2020 by ExArkie
Corrected "fat finger" typo

[Colin_Cameron]

OK, so it's not the first time I've been wrong (so I'm told), and no doubt it won't be the last.

[bluemarble]

@Colin_Cameron, regardless of whether or not it qualifies as answer to the trivia question, I appreciate you mentioning QM2's first trip to New York City. It's a part of QM2's early history for which I don't recall learning many of the details before now. This discussion we've had about it here has been very helpful from my perspective.