Going to See QE2 in NYC? Send Your Photos!

[Dan Askin]

It's farewell forever to the United States for Cunard's Queen Elizabeth 2 (QE2). This Thursday morning, the storied ocean liner will make its last call in America when it stops at New York's Westside Terminal. The ship will then embark on its 806th and final trans-Atlantic cruise, accompanied on the ocean crossing to Southampton by fleetmate Queen Mary 2 (QM2).

 

QE2 is set to become a floating hotel in Dubai this November.

 

Festivities have been planned to celebrate the last hoorah in New York, and thousands of onlookers are expected to gather to bid adieu to QE2. Planning on going to the historic New York event? Send your pictures to dan@cruisecritic.com -- we'll publish them!

[sparkyrmc]

Hi i am sorry that this is not quite what you ment,But did i see the QE2 on QM2 webcam yesterday on the tandem crossing.

[thepumpdoctor]

We were on the Westbound transatlantic on QE2. What a great and memorable trip with a wonderful group. Here are a few of my pictures including those this morning when we left QE2 at Pier 90. First and sadly last time on QE2 - as Capt McNaught said - now you know what you've been missing !

 

[smeyer418]

pictures

[smeyer418]

share.shutterfly.com/action/welcome?sid=8AbsWrRu1ctGkg

 

 

I haven't loaded all my pictures and I haven't corrected them yet but here are few...

[Aoumd]

I wasn't at the Cunard-sponsored event in Lower Manhattan, but I was across the river. Taken at the pier park near Exchange Place, Jersey City, NJ

 

QM2 waiting for QE2 to come down the river...

 

QE2 passing the Empire State Building for the last time...

 

QE2 passing Ground Zero for the last time...

 

QE2 meets QM2 with a Red, White and Blue Fireboat Farewell Salute...

 

And they sail into the night...

[renne]

Here's a video of the two ships departing New York harbour on 16 October 2008

 

[Dan Askin]

Thanks for the great photos everyone. Great looking liner, that QE2.

[LOWTYD]

 

Mast of QE2 in port.

[LOWTYD]

leaving berth

QE2 passangers waving goddbye

tug turning ship

ready to go on her own

(not a great shot but..Meeting her sister

 

I was in port on the Carnival Miracle so we got to watch her leave from the best seats in town! It was awesome!

 

EDIT: Sorry you can't make these bigger by clicking on them. I guess because I copied and pasted them from my Snapfish site. If you would liketo see any larger photos I can repost in a bigger size (I think)

[Dan Askin]

LOWTYD,

 

Those photos look great, even at the small size. Would you be able to send me a few for publication elswhere on the site? (dan@cruisecritic.com)

 

Thanks,

 

Dan

[Boytjie]

I was in port on the Carnival Miracle so we got to watch her leave from the best seats in town! It was awesome!

 

Usually the carnival and NCL ship sleave New York around 4 pm so I was suprised to see the Miracle was still there when the QE2 left. I wonder why the late departure for you? When did you leave?

 

You sure had a good view of the departure!

 

EDIT: Sorry you can't make these bigger by clicking on them. I guess because I copied and pasted them from my Snapfish site. If you would liketo see any larger photos I can repost in a bigger size (I think)

 

The linkls to your pictures aren't working :(

[LOWTYD]

Usually the carnival and NCL ship sleave New York around 4 pm so I was suprised to see the Miracle was still there when the QE2 left. I wonder why the late departure for you? When did you leave?

 

You sure had a good view of the departure!

 

 

We were supposed to leave at 5, but the computer's crashed during embarkation and anyone who arrived after that had to get checked in manually so we didn't get out of port until 6:00.

 

 

 

The linkls to your pictures aren't working :(

 

I will try to get it so you can see them. It was cut ans paste and I think since Snapfish you have be invited to view picture so it wouldn't work. If you want to give me your email address I can invite you to view them.

 

Sandy

[AMScruiser]

Sorry, I hadn't noticed the "sticky" earlier, so for the sake of completeness I add the link to my video here too:

 

[Boytjie]

I will try to get it so you can see them. It was cut ans paste and I think since Snapfish you have be invited to view picture so it wouldn't work. If you want to give me your email address I can invite you to view them.

 

Sandy

 

I could not find anything on Snapfish that tells you how you can link to your photos on Snapfish on a message board. I use Webshots to upload pictures too that I want to link to individually and it works very well here. For example:

 

 

 

My photos and videos of the QE2 leaving are at http://good-times.webshots.com/album/568071713oWDnoB

 

My email address is boytjieny at yahoo dot com, I'd love to see your pictures.

[Dan Askin]

Hi everyone,

 

Thanks again to all the contributors. I've set up a special farewell gallery for QE2 in our photo gallery section, and gone ahead and sized/formatted/captioned a bunch of pictures. You can send photos (or flikr/webshot-type site links) to me if you'd like. All contributors have been given credit, of course. I'll be adding more as we head toward the final stretch.

 

http://pictures.cruisecritic.com/showgallery.php?cat=525

 

Try the slideshow function.

 

Dan