rallyrocks
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Post by rallyrocks on Feb 6, 2007 3:15:34 GMT -5
The The Queen Mary 2 was in SF over the last 30 hours, man talk about one monster of a machine! My night time pics hardly covey just how outrageously gigantic this ship is    The top of the stack passes only 30 feet under the golden gate bridge. By the time she passed under the bridge she was moving at too good a clip for the timed exposure to grab;  |
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rollingstone
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Post by rollingstone on Feb 6, 2007 4:26:36 GMT -5
That is HUGE! I kind of like the time exposure of it going under the bridge -- makes it look like it was going to warp speed at the time. ;D
-Don
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Post by takilasunrise on Feb 6, 2007 10:35:56 GMT -5
Cool! I bet that was pretty exciting, especially when it went under the bridge. I'm sure there was some doubt that it would make it! I got to tour the "original??" Queen Mary that's docked in Long Beach when I was a kid. That was pretty impressive.
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Post by lbowman1 on Feb 6, 2007 13:10:54 GMT -5
Wow!  I never realized it was that big. Lori |
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Post by LCARS on Feb 6, 2007 13:29:18 GMT -5
We had the Abe Lincoln here a few times and MAN, THAT is a BIG boat!
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rallyrocks
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Post by rallyrocks on Feb 6, 2007 13:46:59 GMT -5
We had the Abe Lincoln here a few times and MAN, THAT is a BIG boat! not as big as the Queen: USS Abraham Lincoln CVN 72 length 1092 ft Height keel to mast 206.6 ft displacement 97,500 tons Cunard Queen Mary 2 length 1132 ft Height keel to funnel 236.2 ft displacement approx 150,000 tons (actually Abe's fight deck has 110 ft over QM2's 147 ft beam which is measured at the bridge wings, and with less displacement, I think the mast on the Lincoln actually rides a few feet higher than the funnel on the QM2) and for historic perspective: RMS Titanic Length - 882 feet 6 inches. Beam - 92 feet 6 inches. Height - 175 feet from keel to stack 46,328 Registered Tons. |
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Post by stefan on Feb 6, 2007 14:42:06 GMT -5
The Titianic was a big boat too??? Awesome pix- I'm just not a boat person
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Post by Cher on Feb 6, 2007 14:48:54 GMT -5
Wow that's amazing. LOL Don, I was thinking the same thing, that's a cool pic.
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Post by BAZ on Feb 6, 2007 23:14:14 GMT -5
Nice pics!
Yep, we went on the Queen Mary a lot growing up in So. Ca., my uncle has sailed on the QM2 twice now and says there is no other way to travel. Having been on a Carribbean and Baja crusie I would have to agree. Even without the pampering I would rather take 10 days to get to Hawaii on a ship rather than 5 hours in a L-1011 any day. Commercial air travel has become just another bus ride.
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I never realized it was that big.
