Yes it's true, sold and going to Dubai based investors







































The QE2 has been sold by it's American owners to a Dubai company to become a floating hotel in the "Palm" luxury resort developement. Carnival got $100million for her which isn't bad when you consider the age (40 years old) and the pretty awful state she is now in. But still another British Icon has gone. It will be interesting to see what name they give her as I believe the current name and callsign cannot be transferred to new owners under a special agreement that Carnival/Cunard have with HRH and the UK government. You can read about it here:
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Tim in Scotland wrote:

when you consider the age (40 years old) and the pretty awful state she is now in. But still another British Icon has gone.

I thought I was older than 10 when I watched her being towed down the Clyde, My father was at the launch but he wasnt allowed to take the kids with him so we had to watch from afar. Got a row in school the next day for taking the day off to watch it

Alicatt so many of the fathers of pupils at Drymen Primary School where I spent part of my schooling, worked at John Brown's that the headmaster even got a telly in the school so we could all watch the launch. We got a day off school for the opening of the Forth Road Bridge though! 2020 Pangea Green 1st Edition D240 New Defender 110 is here and loving it
2018 Melting Silver Mini Countryman PHEV - soon to be replaced
2015MY Corris Grey SDv6 HSE Dynamic, the best car I have ever owned, totally reliable only a cou0le of rattles in 3 years, now no longer in my care
Also in my garage is a 1996 TDi300 Defender 90 County HT made into a fake CSW

My dad served his time with Denny's ship yard as did his father ..... all the way back to 1730ish when Denny first opened. I was in the Vale academy when the QE2 was launched, I never got any punishment or that as the rector was at the launch with my dad
Now Drymen I know very well, I used to go to the Croftamie riding school just up at the crossroads there, long gone now I think as there is a big cottage built on what was our sand-school.
I also used to go in and explore around Buchanan Castle before catching the bus back to Balloch.
I don't remember having a day off for the Forth road bridge, my dad's cousin was a civil engineer on that project, I remember him coming back from Africa to start on the Forth bridge.

i lived in roysth for a good few years and have walked the forth road bridge many times  

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Brian Mason wrote:

Weren't you a Jarrow Marcher too???

An I thought it was just the "short arms and deep pockets" of the Geordie

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I can hear the Hovis music playing in the background as Tim and Alli and aljo are reminiscing  some of my Previous cars
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RRS 3.0 L494 Autobiography
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Al the 1st school I went to in Scotland was Croftamie School while our house in Drymen was being built. We lived in the house at Drymen Bridge throughout the build period. Croftamie School is the only school I went to where the lads wore skirts as the school uniform....... I was there from November 1963 till summer 1964, the winter that Loch Lomond completely froze over.
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2018 Melting Silver Mini Countryman PHEV - soon to be replaced
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Also in my garage is a 1996 TDi300 Defender 90 County HT made into a fake CSW

ENVOY wrote:

I can hear the Hovis music playing in the background as Tim and Alli and aljo are reminiscing

the first school i went to in glasgow we had the SAS to control playtime  

Eeee when a wer a lad...

I started primary in Haldane in 1961 and I remember going on the Lake of Mentieth in my dad's car that would be 63/64. Most of Loch Lomond was frozen over but you couldn't walk to Inch Murin as it was too thin. We kept a boat at Balmaha but that wasn't until 68.

Well................................................... , my sister and brother-in-law own the Oak Tree Inn in Balmaha. 2020 Pangea Green 1st Edition D240 New Defender 110 is here and loving it
2018 Melting Silver Mini Countryman PHEV - soon to be replaced
2015MY Corris Grey SDv6 HSE Dynamic, the best car I have ever owned, totally reliable only a cou0le of rattles in 3 years, now no longer in my care
Also in my garage is a 1996 TDi300 Defender 90 County HT made into a fake CSW