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Welcome Home QE2 by Gordon Bauwens. - Cranston Military Prints

Welcome Home QE2 by Gordon Bauwens.


Welcome Home QE2 by Gordon Bauwens.

Featuring Queen Elizabeth 2 on her first homecoming to the river where she began her illustrious career, this painting captures the supreme elegance of the liner in the beautiful Firth of Clyde. As a backdrop, Hunters Quay and Dunoon nestle beneath the hazy blue hills of the Cowal peninsula, enjoying this brief reminder of when the river was one of Britains busiest shipping thoroughfares. In over 250 years of shipbuilding on the Clyde some 35,000 new vessels witnessed this lovely vista. The occasion which brought about QE2s only appearance on these waters for over 20 years was Cunards 150th Anniversary celebrations in 1990. Four years later the mighty QE2 again returned to the Clyde as part of her Silver Jubilee cruise programme. At the end of a memorable day, with the sun glistening off her giant hull and superstructure, the majestic Queen glided past those same blue hills.
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Throughout her later years on the North Atlantic, Cunard's <i>Queen Elizabeth 2</i> cut a lonely swathe across the waters she was designed to traverse. Thanks to her foresighted dual-purpose design, clever marketing and iconic appeal as the 'last true liner', <i>QE2</i> outlived all her sea-going competitors and seemed destined to be the last ever passenger liner to regularly ply the Atlantic. She also looked to be the final <i>Queen</i> in service for Cunard. However, in 1999 a decision was made to build on <i>QE2</i>'s unique success by adding a giant new transatlantic liner, <i>Queen Mary 2</i>, to the Cunard fleet. Then, almost four years after <i>QM2</i> entered service in 2004 as the new Company flagship, she and <i>QE2</i> were joined by another new ship, MV <i>Queen Victoria</i>. Thus, since <i>QV</i>'s maiden voyage in December 2007 until <i>QE2</i>'s retirement in late 2008, three mighty Cunard Queens sailed concurrently for the first time ever. Unlike all previous <i>Queens</i>, which were unique one-off vessels, <i>Queen Victoria</i> was adapted from an existing design first created for Holland America Line's Vista-class cruise liners. While at 90,000 gross tons she is the second largest Cunarder ever built, <i>Queen Victoria</i> is in length and beam very similar to <i>QE2</i>, allowing passage through the Panama Canal. Built as a 5-star floating hotel, <i>Queen Victoria</i>'s magnificent interiors boast many pieces of artwork by some of the world's leading artists. Gordon Bauwens is honoured to be represented by 12 maritime works commissioned and selected for public areas aboard this latest Cunarder. In addition to these, this latest painting, <i>Royal Rendezvous</i>, features the debutante <i>Queen Victoria</i> and legendary <i>Queen Elizabeth 2</i> passing at sea, contrasting two distinct generations of <i>Queens</i> proudly flying the colours of one of the world's greatest shipping lines. As the much-loved <i>QE2</u> retired in November 2008, the preceding months proved to be the last these two majestic Cunarders served together.

Royal Rendezvous by Gordon Bauwens.		DHM810P. The Queen Elizabeth 2 Leaving New York by Robert Barbour.

The Queen Elizabeth 2 Leaving New York by Robert Barbour 		The elegant lines of the famous Cunard liner Queen Elizabeth II contrast against the ragged rocks of the Needles soon after departing Southampton in the late 1980s.

Queen Elizabeth II by Ivan Berryman. 		DHM810. The Queen Elizabeth 2 Leaving New York by Robert Barbour.

The Queen Elizabeth 2 Leaving New York by Robert Barbour.
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