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QE2 Runs aground

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  1. Cruz, Nov 11, 2008
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    Cruz

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    I assume it's OK to post news stories like this here...

    QE2 hits sandbar on voyage home

    SOUTHAMPTON, England, Nov. 11 (UPI) -- British luxury liner Queen Elizabeth II ran around Tuesday on the Brambles sand bank near the Isle of Wight as she began her farewell call to Southampton.
    The 40-year-old ship entered the Solent route between the island and the mainland in poor weather and might have been moved off-course by strong winds before running aground, The Times of London reported.

    "She has been refloated and is under way under her own power and heading back to her berth in Southampton," a Solent Coast Guard spokesman said. "She had only partially gone aground, and the tugs pulled her off."

    She later arrived in Southampton.

    The 70,000-ton ship will be being taken out of service in December and turned into a floating hotel in Dubai, the Times said. She has sailed nearly 6 million nautical miles, circled the globe 25 times, crossed the Atlantic more than 800 times and carried more than 2.5 million passengers.
  2. Fishtigua, Nov 11, 2008
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    Qeii

    As anyone familiar with the Solent will know, one day you will end up on the Brambles Bank. It does not matter how good you are or how many times you pass it, it'll catch you out.

    On low spring tides we go out in RIBS and play Cricket on it. A Land Rover has driven over it as well.

    While the QEII was in Southampton a plane flew over her and dropped 1 million red poppy leaves as a token to the end of WW1, 90 years ago today. Quite moving.

    Dave
  3. C4ENG, Nov 11, 2008
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    What makes that area difficult?
    Do the sand bars move and change possitions with tide?
  4. Loren Schweizer, Nov 12, 2008
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    ...proving once again that there are two kinds of skippers:
    Them's who've gone aground and them's who will.
  5. Capt Bill11, Nov 16, 2008
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    Don't forget the third type, those who lie about it. :)
  6. NYCAP123, Nov 17, 2008
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    But with the QE II ?! :eek: Now that's the stuff of nightmares.