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Retired from the sea now 45 years, the hotel and special event venue has been visited by millions of tourists.
Cunard Line has never forgotten their famous former flagship and
over the years has sent their ships to pay tribute to their first
Queen. In the early 1980’s
Cunard Princess was with the Queen Mary, and more recently in 2006 their current flagship the magnificent
Queen Mary 2 was there, as well as the lovely
Queen Victoria in 2011.
However, the upcoming Royal Rendezvous with the beautiful new
Queen Elizabeth will be the most poignant of all.
From 1947 to 1967 the glorious sisters
Queen Mary and
Queen Elizabeth crisscrossed the North Atlantic on their appointed schedules, many times sighting one another in mid ocean.
This wonderful oceanic interlude was relished by passengers,
captains, and crew alike for there was no finer sight than to witness
the largest and most beautiful ships of the era in their natural
element, splashing the sea aside as they passed.
The last time the two sisters met was September 25, 1967 in the small hours of the morning, when the
Queen Mary was Eastbound on her last trans-Atlantic voyage in the Cunard Service.
In the cool, starlit, autumn darkness, Commodore Geoffrey Marr stood at attention on his flying bridge of the Westbound
Queen Elizabeth; Captain Treasure Jones was in the same position on the
Mary.
As the two great Queens closed on one another, the
lights were flashed on, scattering the indigo Atlantic night in Cunard
red; porthole pearls were in regal array.
Each captain doffed his hat as the mighty Tyfon whistles pierced the ether in a fantastic farewell salute.
It is with a great sense of history that Cunard Line will send their newest liner, the 90,000 ton namesake
Queen Elizabeth, to rendezvous with the
Queen Mary in Long Beach Harbor on March 12th, and for a
brief moment in time the two most sanguine names in the history of
mankind and the sea will be together again.
Joining these
maritime icons high above will be the famed Goodyear blimp, the Spirit
of America. The presence of a Goodyear blimp overhead lends a special
appeal at major sporting and red carpet events and
will add to the historical significance of this Royal Rendezvous.
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Free Access to the Queen Mary will be offered from 4PM-9PM on March 12th, 2013 for this historic meeting.
The Queen Elizabeth will sail into the Long Beach Harbor at 6:30PM and a ceremonious fireworks display will begin at 7:30PM.
For more information, visit: http://queenmary.com/events/royalrendezvous.php
For more information on Cunard, visit:
http://www.cunard.com
For more information on GoodYear blimp, visit: http://www.goodyearblimp.com
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