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10 unusual facts about Queen Elizabeth 2


Alzek Misheff

He is well known in the international art world for the project Swimming Across The Atlantic, which was executed in the swimming pool of the ocean liner Queen Elizabeth 2 in 1982 while traveling on the route between London and New York.

Carmen Cusack

After completing university, she accepted a job on the MS Queen Elizabeth 2, which changed the course of her career.

Gerald Guterman

In September 1986, Guterman drew media attention when he chartered the famed ocean liner RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 along with a crew of over 1,000, for his 13yr old son's Bar Mitzvah party.

Ian Belsey

Belsey has appeared in opera and the works of Gilbert and Sullivan at major theatres and concert halls throughout the United Kingdom and in France, Germany, Holland, Spain, New York, Bermuda, the Far East and aboard the QE2 on the World Cruise.

Jeff Harnar

Jeff has also brought his performances to the high seas on such ships at the QE2, QM2, Crystal Regent Cruises and Holland America Lines.

John Timmons

He played his part in ensuring that the contract for the RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 liner went to the Clyde shipyards rather than the Tyne.

Joseph Vassallo

Vassallo sailed around the world multiple times on board the luxurious ship QE2, where he worked as a Chef De Rang.

Leonard Tose

Mr. Tose flew to Eagles home games in a helicopter, was married aboard the liner Queen Elizabeth 2 and fed reporters filet mignon and shrimp cocktail.

Mike Pender's Searchers

In 1994 Mike Pender's Searchers were the very first 1960s band to be invited to play on board the QE2 as part of the ocean liner's 25th anniversary celebrations.

MV Royal Daffodil

In 1991, she was used until the two sisters returned in time for the QE2's first visit to Liverpool.


Nakheel Properties

The company also owned the retired ocean liner, Queen Elizabeth 2, which it acquired for $100 million and planned to convert into a luxury hotel, that was to have been moored at the Palm Jumeirah.

Nautical chart

A similar incident involving a passenger ship occurred in 1992 when the Cunard liner Queen Elizabeth 2 struck a submerged rock off Block Island in the Atlantic Ocean.