Last of the Liners

[boatone]

Anyone else watch this programme on BBC4 this evening ? Took me back to my seagoing days and the magnificence of the real ocean liners I came ashore around the time the QEII was brought into service and actually delivered the first electronic calculator into the Pursers office before she embarked passengers in Southampton for her inaugural transatlantic passage.

 

[rotrax]

Anyone else watch this programme on BBC4 this evening ? Took me back to my seagoing days and the magnificence of the real ocean liners I came ashore around the time the QEII was brought into service and actually delivered the first electronic calculator into the Pursers office before she embarked passengers in Southampton for her inaugural transatlantic passage.

My fathers firm supplied all the armoured portlights, windows and decorative glass and mirrors on the QE2.

First Mate and I accompianied my parents on a visit to the Southampton Ocean Terminal to visit the ship before she took any paying passengers.

She was magnificent.

I had been on both the previous Queens as my Grandmothers friends family nearly all worked for Cunard.

The Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth were art deco masterpieces.

First Mate and I had a meal and took in the film at the restored art deco cinema The Roxy, in Miramar, Wellington a couple of years ago.

Reminded me very much of the Queen Elizabeth.