Queen Elizabeth 2 - to be sold for scrap and broken up

[lenseman]

Queen Elizabeth II - Sold for Scrap and broken up

The MS Queen Elizabeth 2, which was purchased back in 2008 for conversion to a luxury hotel in Dubai, has reportedly been sold for scrap to Chinese interests for £20m. The original conversion plans were scuttled by a credit crunch in Dubai shortly after the ship purchase. Last July we posted about a more modest hotel conversion plan for the QE2, which has now also fallen through.

http://www.oldsaltblog.com/2012/12/...tm_campaign=Feed:+OldSaltBlog+(Old+Salt+Blog)

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[penfold]

I find that story very difficult to believe, if only for the fact her scrap value is more than double that.

 

[Dannypenguin]

Sign a petition to save qe2

Hi there,

There is a govermental petition online to save her, and bring her to London. However, it needs at least 100,000 signatures to even be considered for debate in the house of commons. The link is below, please help save one of our last ocean liners fom the scrapheap.



http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/43821



Thanks

 

[PilotWolf]

Hi there,

There is a govermental petition online to save her, and bring her to London. However, it needs at least 100,000 signatures to even be considered for debate in the house of commons. The link is below, please help save one of our last ocean liners fom the scrapheap.



http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/43821



Thanks

What would bringing her to London achieve?

The Queen Mary is in Long Beach, California and owned by a hotel chain. She is not well maintained as a ship, but used as a commercial enterprise at the expense of preservation.

Why do you think the QE2 would be treated differently in London?

PW

 

[penfold]

Parliamentary debate will achieve nowt; you need to offer the owners more money than the possibly non-existent scrap merchants. Anything else is an utter waste of time.

 

[wadget]

What would bringing her to London achieve?

The Queen Mary is in Long Beach, California and owned by a hotel chain. She is not well maintained as a ship, but used as a commercial enterprise at the expense of preservation.

Why do you think the QE2 would be treated differently in London?

PW

Better than the chinese melting her down though isn't it?

 

[Grajan]

There is a rumour floating around about bringing her back to the Clyde as a tourist attraction for Greenock!

 

[penfold]

There is a rumour floating around about bringing her back to the Clyde as a tourist attraction for Greenock!

Sshh! It's just a ruse by Clydeport; they've bought her for scrap. They have a plan to park her at Great Harbour and have a party for all the old John Brown workers; they'll kid on she's going to be refitted so all the mateys will feel obliged steal all the bits they missed the first time round, then the rest can be broken up in the drydock.

 

[Keen_Ed]

Better than the chinese melting her down though isn't it?

Why? If she doesn't wash her face, better to be scrapped than left to rot.

 

[ArchieP]

MS Queen Elizabeth 2, often referred to simply as the QE2, is an ocean liner built for Cunard and operated by Cunard as both a liner and a cruise ship from 1969 to 2008. So MS Queen Elizabeth 2 is now 43 years of existing. why don't preserved it and make it a museum and or a tourist spot. Aside from gaining a wide numbers of tourist to visit the said ship, the country can also profit more.

 

[tigr]

Petition page no longer valid,

 

[balauru_furios]

Maybe because Cunard said on Dec 24 that this is BS? https://www.facebook.com/cunard/posts/10151389239703223

 

[LuigiWriter]

Why? If she doesn't wash her face, better to be scrapped than left to rot.

I am assuming that the picture was meant as an example of "this is what is likely to happen, Just look at the SS United States after all these years" sort of thing since it is not a current picture of the QE2.

 

[penfold]

Off to China apparently.

http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/10532877.QE2_to_leave_Dubai/