The Queen Mary 2 Leaves Cobh

henna · 23-10-2009 2:03am #1

The Queen Mary 2 passing Roches’s Point after making her maiden call to Cobh, Co.Cork.

Commodore Bernard Warner, the Master of the Queen Mary 2 guided the huge luxury liner towards Cork Harbour in the late morning and the Queen Mary 2 berthed at the Cobh Cruise Liner Terminal at lunchtime. She sailed again at 6 pm that evening.

Cunard Line President, Peter Shanks who traveled on the voyage and an official from the Port of Cork, laid a wreath at the Lusitania Peace Memorial in Cobh Town Centre in memory of those who died when the Cunard liner was torpedoed off the Old Head of Kinsale in 1915.

More pictures of the liner can be seen in The Gallery.

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rymus · 23-10-2009 8:33am

Great shot, very (however dodgy this is to say) titanic. James Cameron would be proud of you

Valentia · 23-10-2009 9:00am

Excellent. Well done.

emul · 23-10-2009 9:25am

Very nice set John, I'd thought about heading to the same spot - hindsight is a wonderful thing!

hopelessOne · 23-10-2009 1:19pm

emul wrote: »

Very nice set John, I'd thought about heading to the same spot - hindsight is a wonderful thing!

Yeah, I also thought about heading over to Roches Point but couldn't make it. As always, ideas are worthless... you've actually got to get out there to achieve anything