Queen Mary 2 salutes Queen Mary 1 in Long Beach

The Queen Mary 2 super ocean liner braves the shallow waters within the Long Beach breakwater to salute the original Queen Mary on February 23, 2006. Video taken on board the Queen Mary.

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[scott93257]

Long live the Queens

[mickrise]

Perhaps you poms could look after her like you did RMS Olympic (Titanics twin sister). Oh thats right,you sold her for scrap in 1935

[77elvistheking]

@mickrise Fuckers, they don't care for nothing but money!

If only they weren't stupid enough, Olympic could have been with us now!!

[mickrise]

Sorry I meant the Tyne,no the Clyde.

[mickrise]

cont. She performed admirably and valuably throughout WW1, even earning the nickname "Old Reliable' I believe, and the fact she was the only ship left out of the original 3 is even more reason she should have been kept. The only real positive I can see in her demise, was she proved invaluable to the workers on the Clyde still realing from The Great Depression.

I hope this helps clarify my original point. All the Best, I will never forget my time on the QM1. Long may she live on. Regards



[mickrise]

To everyone that keeps complaining,I was only pointing out to someone who stated the English would have taken care of QM1 better than the Americans,that the British have a less than perfect record in looking after her ships. As for not being a ship of any note, she is all but identical to Titanic, built during the same period, by the same men, and would be only the second last original White Star vessel afloat after the SS Nomadic (Titanics tender out of Cherborg) currently undergoing a refit.

[queenmarykid]

@mickrise If the Cunard line hadn't sold the Olympic, then the Queen Mary 1 would have never been made.

[thebttfchannel]

@Gryphonalia you are Correct. the Queen Mary 2 is sounding her combination of two brand new horns and an original 1934 Queen Mary horn here (on loan from the City of Long Beach)

[HeartGold356]

@mickrise Prade rainer

[Gryphonalia]

A British icon, the QM II is part of what is now a California based corporation!

[Gryphonalia]

If I'm not mistaken, doesn't the QMII have one of the QM's horns? I used to live in LB and I have to say, hearing that magnificent whistle blow was something I always looked forward to. The Tuesday noon Disaster Warning SIren in San Francisco just isn't quite the same...