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Subject: [Leica] Queen Elizabeth in town
From: richard at imagecraft.com (Richard Man)
Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2011 22:59:05 -0800
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Isn't this QE III or QE IV or something? I remember QE I burned while I was
growing up in HK. Big news!!!

On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 10:50 PM, H&ECummer <cummer at netvigator.com> wrote:

> Hi Luggers,
> The new Cunard liner Queen Elizabeth was docked at the Ocean Terminal in
> Tsim Sha Tsui today and I took some pictures as I rode across from Central
> on the Star Ferry. Taken with the Panasonic GH2 and the 14 - 140 zoom and
> lightly processed in CS4.
> A couple of them are in this folder:
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/QE/
>
> Some info on the ship:
> Launched Oct 2010 by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth
> Country of Registry Great Britain
> Speed 23.7 knots
> Gross Tonnage 90,900 GRT
> Guest Capacity 2,068
> No. of Crew 996
> Length  964.5 feet  (the Empire State Building is 1,250 feet tall including
> the antenna that King Kong swings from)
> Width 106 feet
> Draft 25.9 feet
>
> Tsim Sha Tsui was humming with the 2000 passengers from the Queen competing
> with the Mainland tourists to see who could be fleeced the fastest. :-0
> I bought what I had to and got out of there.
> C&C always welcome.
> Cheers
> Howard
>
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