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  • Опубликовано: 20 фев 2024
  • The Queen Elizabeth was built in Italy due to the closure of British shipyards. The ship's components were prefabricated off-site and assembled in a dry dock, allowing for a quick six-month construction period. Despite an eight-week delay, the shipyard aimed to meet the tight deadline, adding a night shift and emphasizing meticulous coordination.
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  • @GrumpyOldMan9
    @GrumpyOldMan9 3 месяца назад +11

    Italy building Britain's greatest ship. The 4th dimension does exist.

    • @taphiro7436
      @taphiro7436 2 месяца назад +2

      In fact i was wondering why it's getting built in Italy instead of Southampton or UK

  • @ksig219
    @ksig219 3 месяца назад +13

    I hope they make one on the Queen Anne construction too.

  • @happyslappy5203
    @happyslappy5203 3 месяца назад +7

    MS Queen Elizabeth is classified as a cruise ship, not an ocean liner. Queen Mary 2 is a true Atlantic liner, still the largest: 345 metres length (MS Queen Elizabeth: 294 metres length). Queen Mary 2 was built by French shipbuilders in St Nazaire in 2004. Some of the biggest cruise ships were built in St Nazaire: 2015 Harmony of the Seas (362 meters. 226,963 GT, world record)
    2018 Symphony of the Seas (362 meters. 228,081 GT, world record)
    2020 Wonder of the Seas (362 meters. 236,857 GT, world record)
    And St Nazaire shipbuilders will build the largest cruising sailboat in the world, 220 meters long.

  • @knutarneaakra6013
    @knutarneaakra6013 3 месяца назад +24

    An ocean liner is something quite different than this floating hotel😊

    • @MrBibi86
      @MrBibi86 3 месяца назад +4

      those huge new cruise ships look so tacky.

    • @GermanGreetings
      @GermanGreetings 3 месяца назад +2

      The bow-section... ok, although i like the rounded front of QM II far more.
      And a propos: after building Queen Mary for Cunard, WHY ist the stern of the Queen Elizabeth as ugly, as most of the modern cruiseships ?

    • @legioner9
      @legioner9 2 месяца назад +1

      @@GermanGreetings The stern of Queen Mary 2 at least is also very ugly, I agree it prettier than all cruise ship's sterns.

    • @wickedcabinboy
      @wickedcabinboy 2 месяца назад +1

      @@GermanGreetings - More passengers. More passengers = more money. It's not a big dark secret. What other reason could there be?

    • @GermanGreetings
      @GermanGreetings 2 месяца назад

      @@wickedcabinboy Did you see the video about the construction of QM II ? My comment was only about the natural stability towards waves VS bow and waves VS stern - not for the Mediterranian or the Baltic Sea of course... but for those ships, who cruise in the Atlantic...
      You are right of course: the money-making aspects are first... so the bubble gums get bigger and bigger :)

  • @marcom2248
    @marcom2248 3 месяца назад +7

    It's a shame that it was not build in the UK.

    • @nancyosterhaus5717
      @nancyosterhaus5717 3 месяца назад +1

      the QM2 was built in France.

    • @MrTomcat104
      @MrTomcat104 2 месяца назад +2

      Blame that on the decline of UK manufacturing. Uncompetitive compared to foreign shipyards which drove them all under eventually.

  • @lh8372
    @lh8372 2 месяца назад +4

    Queen Mary 2 is the only Ocean Liner in the Cunard fleet of ships. All of their other ships are Cruise Ships

  • @mdstras
    @mdstras 3 месяца назад +8

    CRUISE SHIP! She’s no superliner!

  • @JWRogersPS
    @JWRogersPS 3 месяца назад +2

    "David Linley" is really David Armstrong-Jones, 2nd Earl of Snowdon. He's the nephew of the late Queen, and 1st cousin to King Charles.

  • @marktaylor1801
    @marktaylor1801 3 месяца назад +2

    Wonderful !

  • @meadpro
    @meadpro 3 месяца назад +1

    Oh I'm gonna enjoy this episode

  • @drmarkcthompson6504
    @drmarkcthompson6504 3 месяца назад +10

    But she is not a liner

  • @andybrown6981
    @andybrown6981 2 месяца назад

    Looks wonderful cruising in the open water

  • @LMays-cu2hp
    @LMays-cu2hp 3 месяца назад

    Looking very nice!! Thank you for sharing.😊😊

  • @tonyadeney1245
    @tonyadeney1245 3 месяца назад +2

    impressive - cunard fleet now believe four ships - queen anne, mary 2, victoria and elizabeth - as a student worked on a cruise ship in holidays - not cunard but something special about cunard the history, the ships .. maybe one day will do a cunard trip - did check and a few bargains if you are flexible in booking and tour venues ...

  • @MrFroglips69
    @MrFroglips69 3 месяца назад

    Groovy episode.

  • @skenzyme81
    @skenzyme81 2 месяца назад +1

    To be truly competitive, a new true ocean liner would need to be able to make the transatlantic crossing in under 72 hours. On the full Southampton to New York route, that would require an average speed of at least 44 knots. A massive catamaran/SWATH could get the job done.

  • @DEVASTATOR478
    @DEVASTATOR478 2 месяца назад

    My favorite Is Always Queen Mary 2

  • @DEVASTATOR478
    @DEVASTATOR478 2 месяца назад

    Robert Loidd is great !!

  • @user-ni1uk4ie2w
    @user-ni1uk4ie2w 3 месяца назад +2

    Not only is the MS Queen Elizabeth a cruise ship, it looks like a Holland American ship. Lack of good looks.

    • @WitchKing-Of-Angmar
      @WitchKing-Of-Angmar 2 месяца назад +2

      5:22 really looks bad, it's not sleek, and the superstructure takes up the entire ship, with a small bowsprit section and a lack of any ship back. Whereas an oceanliner is comprised of tapered lines and elegant sculpting, juxtaposed a set a 1-4 funnels, Beautifully painted in the signature ranking strips of a modern world. I think the only modern ship to look elegant is the 1996-8 Disney magic. Truly beautiful.

    • @andrewwarcup684
      @andrewwarcup684 2 месяца назад

      Same class of ship. Standard Vista hull design.

  • @michaelbressette2599
    @michaelbressette2599 3 месяца назад

    WOW this is different, nothing like the old way of building a ship of this class. The paintings are spectacular or breathtaking almost lifelike depending how you view them. I can very much appreciate the work put into them as I once use to paint & sketch people, landscape & ships However, my ships where Starships, either way you have to be able to see what's not there IE: Shadows transparencies & illusionary alignments & of course a 3rd eye :)
    At time index 33:18 - 37:47 if you take a close look of what I meant about alignment is apparent. The Bow of the vessel doesn't quite line up with the with the bridge & forepeak, it looks kind of turned too much to the Port side & the evidence is very clear if you look at the entire bridge body & the point of the forepeak where the black. White & red paintwork meets & the stern section seems simply cut off. Other than that this painting is really beautiful.
    I am super impressed, I hope it has a safe & long sailing life.

  • @jimaccornero3688
    @jimaccornero3688 3 месяца назад +1

    I believe all the Cunard Queens have extra steel plates in their hull. Mary is the only true Ocean Liner. The other ships are built for cruising but capable of ocean crossings at a slower speed.

  • @MiniMC546
    @MiniMC546 3 месяца назад +54

    MS Queen Elizabeth is a Cruise Ship, not an Ocean Liner...

    • @jerrymartin3965
      @jerrymartin3965 3 месяца назад +2

      In olden times, they were known as Ocean Liners. It's still an appropriate term as they are Trans Atlantic. Cruise ships go on relatively short junkets, not Trans Ocean.

    • @bayousbambino427
      @bayousbambino427 3 месяца назад +15

      @@jerrymartin3965 False. Ocean liners go from one point to another as fast as possible, on a regular schedule. Cruise ships make voyages that include multiple ports and take a long as desired. Cruise ships cross oceans--how the hell do you think they complete world cruises? They just don't cross oceans during storms; ocean liners do that, on the Atlantic or any other ocean. (Again, how do you think people, before the jet age, travelled from North America to Asia or Australasia, or from Europe to Australasia, and vice-versa?)

    • @jerrymartin3965
      @jerrymartin3965 3 месяца назад +6

      @bayousbambino427 you're wrong. Schedule has nothing to do with it. It's the distance. These ships have always been known as ocean liners. Cruise ship is a much newer term for those ships that do much shorter trips, a jaunt. You can work it out anyway you want in your head. You're just being childishly argumentative.

    • @bayousbambino427
      @bayousbambino427 3 месяца назад

      @@jerrymartin3965 LOL "These ships"? You don't even have a clue how ships are built, proven by the fact I alluded to the differences in construction--ocean liners have the strength and speed cross oceans, regardless of weather (you know, to keep that schedule), whereas cruise ships are not as strong and slower and, thus, seek ports or change route to avoid storms (you know, because schedule doesn't matter so much)--and you _still_ go on as if there's no fundamental differences between RMS _Queen Mary 2_ and MS _Queen Elizabeth_ ! And, yet, you're so convinced of your expertise in this area, you think you can tell me I'm wrong. Pathetic
      Learn a thing: ruclips.net/video/w7mocEPIjjs/видео.html

    • @bayousbambino427
      @bayousbambino427 3 месяца назад +1

      @@jerrymartin3965 LOL "These ships"? You don't even have a clue how ships are built, proven by the fact I alluded to the differences in construction--ocean liners have the strength and speed cross oceans, regardless of weather (you know, to keep that schedule), whereas cruise ships are not as strong and slower and, thus, seek ports or change route to avoid storms (you know, because schedule doesn't matter so much)--and you still go on as if there's no fundamental differences between RMS Queen Mary 2 and MS Queen Elizabeth ! And, yet, you're so convinced of your expertise in this area, you think you can tell me I'm wrong. Pathetic
      Learn a thing: ruclips.net/video/w7mocEPIjjs/видео.html

  • @Mikkel-of-Lolland.
    @Mikkel-of-Lolland. 2 месяца назад

    good comment.

  • @DaveSoCal
    @DaveSoCal 2 месяца назад

    Amy is so “Los Angeles”

  • @wickedcabinboy
    @wickedcabinboy 2 месяца назад

    I'm wondering, what's the rush?

  • @iqbalindrafauzi5600
    @iqbalindrafauzi5600 2 месяца назад

    But the one and only Ocean Liner who still exist today is RMS Queen Mary 2

  • @hypercomms2001
    @hypercomms2001 2 месяца назад

    How did Fincantieri manage to survive and grow but the British yards did not?

  • @LAHRchitecture
    @LAHRchitecture 3 месяца назад +2

    A lovely Art Déco style liner…I love the interiors from the Golden Âge of Travel. No Karting, no water toboggan, 50 shops and adventure parc. For sure for a mature clientele, but it still is a ship an not an floating Adventure Park.

    • @bayousbambino427
      @bayousbambino427 3 месяца назад +2

      It's not a liner.

    • @forestghost7
      @forestghost7 3 месяца назад

      ​@@bayousbambino427no it's not, but at least it's not another hideous floating Walmart 🤮

    • @LAHRchitecture
      @LAHRchitecture 3 месяца назад +1

      @@bayousbambino427 : In fact I apologise for the mistake. Of course it is not a liner. What is the definition of a liner?
      1. : a ship or airplane of a regular transportation line. an ocean liner. 2.

    • @bayousbambino427
      @bayousbambino427 3 месяца назад +1

      @@forestghost7 True.

    • @bayousbambino427
      @bayousbambino427 3 месяца назад +1

      ​@@LAHRchitecture I was merely correcting the mistake I assumed you picked up from the video, which, wrongly, calls this ship an ocean liner. It's rather like calling a resort an airport hotel. (Only, in the pubic consciousness, the cachet is reversed--"liner" evokes more nostalgic, romantic associations than "cruise ship", despite liners having been the vessels that served a far more utalitarian purpose than cruise ships do.)

  • @leopoldodiaz2985
    @leopoldodiaz2985 2 месяца назад

    She ia Puertorican.OMG

  • @jimcameron1451
    @jimcameron1451 3 месяца назад +1

    I thought I wa going to see a launch.

  • @OllieRamone
    @OllieRamone 3 месяца назад

    She is not built for the transatlantic trade, only the Queen Mary 2 is.

  • @PeterDunnPhotographer
    @PeterDunnPhotographer 2 месяца назад

    2010?

  • @bayousbambino427
    @bayousbambino427 3 месяца назад +1

    Why keep calling this ship a liner? It's a cruise ship. The only liner in operation today is _Queen Mary 2_ .
    Also, along the same lines, but, reversed, it's gotta be worrying when your lead designer thinks Cunard had a "golden age of cruising". Is she referring to the 1980s? Glass block and pink neon light everywhere?

  • @christianhill9217
    @christianhill9217 3 месяца назад +1

    Why why why 😢put a decent stern on her

  • @porthill702
    @porthill702 3 месяца назад

    I watched for the launch, it never came.

  • @jeffpetrie7744
    @jeffpetrie7744 3 месяца назад

    The narrator refers to this ship as a liner. But she is not a liner, is she? Just checking...

  • @tadshea3011
    @tadshea3011 2 месяца назад +1

    Just sink it over the Titanic see if it splits in two

  • @geographyRyan
    @geographyRyan 3 месяца назад +4

    What was that awful thumbnail??

  • @gillianmilton9209
    @gillianmilton9209 3 месяца назад

    She's not a cruise ship, she IS an ocean liner!

  • @ianinvancouverbc
    @ianinvancouverbc 3 месяца назад

    built in Italy and owned by Americans - I blame Thatcher....

  • @waynemerlo7448
    @waynemerlo7448 3 месяца назад +2

    Owned by American company built by Italian company but it’s British………lol😂

    • @forestghost7
      @forestghost7 3 месяца назад

      does UK own anything anymore? proud to say I own 2 REAL 🇬🇧 classic cars, 80 MGB and 73 Aston Martin, no Chinese or Indian parts in em ... keeping them forever

    • @waynemerlo7448
      @waynemerlo7448 3 месяца назад +1

      @@forestghost7 Sounds like here in Canada. Our whole country has been sold off it seems.

  • @arrtee4707
    @arrtee4707 3 месяца назад

    Heh heh heh…Wouldn’t it be glorious to be a U-boat Captain back then..or even today’s modern submarine Captains…of all Navies in the world capable of having submarines…to be 1000yds away an let loose 4-6 800-1000pds warhead torpedoes…glorious indeed..

  • @MrBibi86
    @MrBibi86 3 месяца назад

    *Why do they always talk about The Queen Mary 2 but never mention the newest Queen Elizabeth?*

  • @pasqualerusso7050
    @pasqualerusso7050 3 месяца назад

    and she.s not a mega ship either...😂😂

  • @christianhill9217
    @christianhill9217 3 месяца назад

    Cheap ship 🚢 no crasmanship .6 months lol

  • @playwithmeinsecondlife6129
    @playwithmeinsecondlife6129 3 месяца назад

    American company. Italian ship. How sad for Britain.

  • @e24m6
    @e24m6 3 месяца назад

    The architects and designers missed the mark on this one. It does not do the name proud Queen Elizabeth. It’s a cheap knock off.

  • @rol1517
    @rol1517 3 месяца назад

    It's not British at all though.

  • @legioner9
    @legioner9 2 месяца назад

    The design of Queen Elizabeth is not nice. It is a cruise ship at the end of the day, which screams cheapness in manufacturing and design. And that stern section looks like crap. Shame. Cruise ships do not deserve the name of Queens.