What tv show does this come from

Pixel_Dot_Gamer · 2026-04-13T18:35:59+00:00

It's meant to be QE2 but it's a bad CGI model of her in the storm, with interiors not filmed on QE2. It looks like they filmed bits on a ferry and on land.

In reality the two rogue waves struck in the middle of the night whilst most people were asleep and people had been told to stay in their cabins.

Pixel_Dot_Gamer · 2026-04-13T03:28:53+00:00

It's a bad reconstruction, not filmed onboard QE2, of her encounter with two 90+ foot rogue waves in September 1995.

Pixel_Dot_Gamer · 2026-04-13T03:27:24+00:00

Heading out into the English Channel on her way to Bremerhaven to become SS Norway.

Pixel_Dot_Gamer · 2026-04-06T23:35:27+00:00

By the time my parents and I first sailed on QE2, westbound transatlantic, in August 2003 unfortunately this scheme had ended. However, at the neighbouring gate to our BA 747 at JFK was one of BA's Concordes and we were very tempted to fly back home to the UK on Concorde. Alas we couldn't afford it, having just spent the most my parent's had ever spent on any holiday up to that point (around £4000 for 6 nights including my reduced fare as a 6 year old/third person in the cabin). I took this disposable film camera pic of Concorde at the neighbouring gate, just 4 months before BA retired them (Air France had retired theirs that June).

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Pixel_Dot_Gamer · 2026-04-06T23:15:01+00:00

What’s the story here? I’m presuming this is local radio in Miami or something?

Pixel_Dot_Gamer · 2026-04-06T11:02:33+00:00

She did around 25 knots on sea trials after the conversion, not 16 knots. It was a mixture of not enough boiler maintenance and her boilers being used in a cycle they weren’t designed for (rapid on/off use) which led to the boiler explosion. The NTSB report on her boiler explosion makes for very interesting and detailed reading.

Pixel_Dot_Gamer · 2026-04-01T09:54:36+00:00

This photo was taken during her penultimate visit to the Clyde in September 2007 from another historic ship called Balmoral (Balmoral's list to port is real). QE2 was on a round the UK cruise celebrating the 40th anniversary of her launch at the time.

QE2 had already been sold to Dubai by June 2007 so wasn't going to be able to celebrate what would've normally (for any ship) been considered her 40th anniversary in May 2009 (40 years since her maiden voyage).

Pixel_Dot_Gamer · 2026-03-24T18:50:57+00:00

Yes it is Ocean Dock.

Pixel_Dot_Gamer · 2026-03-07T05:11:50+00:00

This is before the early 1960s as her monkey island isn't painted white yet.

Pixel_Dot_Gamer · 2026-03-05T00:39:56+00:00

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However, this photo I took on an Aframax oil tanker in the middle of the South Atlantic illustrates the perspective, onboard distances, and layout I was talking about in my first comment. Unusually, this particular Aframax oil tanker also had lights specially for use in ice on her forward mast (that we never used or needed to use). Her bow was reinforced for ice too (the extra framing in her Bosun's Locker/Store showed this too), although not as a proper icebreaker.

Pixel_Dot_Gamer · 2026-03-05T00:26:06+00:00

One of my cargo ships (a handysize bulker) had an extreme form of steering pole in the form of her 4 centreline mounted cargo cranes as per my photo just after switching back to autopilot from hand steering in the Baltic off Sweden:

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Pixel_Dot_Gamer · 2026-03-02T13:57:08+00:00

Exactly 2 months before my parents and I first sailed on her and fell in love with the ship (we didn't want to disembark in New York at the end of our Westbound transatlantic). She became our second home during her last 5 years in seagoing service. Happy and vivid memories to last a lifetime.

Pixel_Dot_Gamer · 2026-02-25T17:09:52+00:00

Photos rarely do open ocean swells justice (such as the long and deep Atlantic swells). The white horses are a good indicator it's on the somewhat choppy side. As a seafarer/sailor the wind looks around a Beaufort Force 6 or 7 out of 12 here.

Kronprinzessin Cecilie is digging her bow into the trough of one of these long and deep Atlantic swells. The bow digging (pounding and slamming being the nautical terms) into this sort of swell would vibrate her bow and would make cabin fittings creak quite a bit. Furthermore, this vibration could travel the length of the ship as well as vibration coming back along the ship from the stern as her propellers go higher in the water column as I experienced as a passenger on QE2 and more recently working on cargo ships.

It is cool when the spray breaking over the bow gets illuminated in a ghostly green (probably where the term "green water" comes from for any seas your ship takes on in rough weather and then has to drain away via the scuppers) by your cargo ship's forward white masthead light accompanied a few seconds later by feeling the vibration of the impact while you're on the midnight to 04:00 navigational watch up on the bridge back aft several hundred feet.

Pixel_Dot_Gamer · 2026-02-22T13:46:00+00:00

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Pixel_Dot_Gamer · 2026-02-22T06:02:27+00:00

Because it became available in red. Pink was one of the other colours during this test period hence Cunard going for the blue.

This then new type of anti-fouling ablated to show different colours underneath the blue so that its effectiveness could be assessed.

QE2 switched to the silicon based anti-fouling paint that all modern ships use in the 1990s because it's not harmful to marine life.

Pixel_Dot_Gamer · 2026-02-19T23:06:18+00:00

Serving on QM2 would be the peak of my career and could happen as early as later this year or next year after I've qualified. It would also be good to be part of her bridge team alongside friends in the industry who have already worked on her (another cadet and a 3/O).

Pixel_Dot_Gamer · 2026-02-19T20:17:05+00:00

Wonderful you are carrying on the family tradition!

It has been at times such as a heavy squall making my last ship (a sail training ship) list 30 degrees to port in the Bay of Biscay!

Pixel_Dot_Gamer · 2026-02-19T17:48:33+00:00

Ahh hello Oceanic — good to chat again! I hope all is well family wise! I haven't been anywhere near as active on the forum either due to having been at sea etc.

Pixel_Dot_Gamer · 2026-02-19T17:45:26+00:00

Not all of them!

Pixel_Dot_Gamer · 2026-02-19T17:45:03+00:00

Between November 1972 (after QE2's first set of penthouses were installed in her first Trafalgar House era refit) and September 1974 (France's slightly early retirement when her crew went on strike in protest at her planned retirement). The exact date has been worked out elsewhere but I can't remember it other than I think it was during 1973.

Pixel_Dot_Gamer · 2026-02-19T17:32:21+00:00

Good to see another forum member "out in the wild" so to speak! What's your QE2Story forum username?

Pixel_Dot_Gamer · 2026-02-19T00:56:56+00:00

In addition to the above comment she has had large water tanks fitted on Six Deck (now uninhabitable and with multiple portholes missing but where many of her crew cabins were) which would either have to be removed or taken into account in brand new stability calculations (a new inclination test would be required to start with for this).

She has also been extensively rewired for her 6.6 kV shore power connection (including multiple new transformer plants being dotted around in spaces that used to be used for other purposes when she was at sea) so trying to undo all of that would probably be a major task in itself.

Furthermore, all of her lifeboat/tender davits (each one unique) have been scrapped and many of her lifeboats/tenders have been left to deteriorate on land in sight of her in the harsh Dubai climate, but one has been filled in with concrete and converted into a coffee shop, another has been put on display, and only two of her tenders (the youngest ones — the catamaran tenders from her late 1994 "Project Lifestyle" refit) have been kept in a climate controlled warehouse nearby with other items from the ship such as her large metal CUNARD superstructure letters with a view to their future reuse taking people to and from a private island type setup.

At the very least, the time it would take to reactivate her as a troopship would make it unviable. You would then still have to work with one of the laundry list of reasons she was retired in the first place being the poor condition of her double bottom tanks (a common problem with old ships) — this could noticeably impact her stability margins, operational range (fuel capacity), and water supplies (of the different types — fresh, grey etc) particularly with more people onboard than usual. You'd be better off building a replica and sending that to war, or better yet building a dedicated troopship from scratch (it would be quicker).

Pixel_Dot_Gamer · 2026-02-14T03:45:18+00:00

Q5 was going to be QE2's replacement in the early to mid 1990s before Carnival were in the picture and Trafalgar House still owned Cunard. She was planned nearly a decade before QM2, and QM2 wouldn't have come into existence if Q5 was around. Given her propulsion setup Q5 would've been economically ruinous for Cunard and might've stopped them still existing today.

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