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...Queen Elizabeth 2, flagship of the Cunard Line and the last of the great passenger liners of the North Atlantic, was less than a day from Southampton last week on a trip out of Philadelphia when its owners received an urgent message from the British government: the 67,500-ton liner was being requisitioned immediately for military service. Its likely mission: to carry to the South Atlantic some 3,000 to 4,000 men of the Fifth Infantry Brigade and support units, a force that would probably become the nucleus of a permanent garrison in the Falklands if the British...
Conversion of the QE2, a floating luxury hotel with seven cocktail bars, four swimming pools and a casino, was a some what more complicated task. Most of the luxurious furniture and fittings from the public rooms were removed. Cunard decided to store ashore the bone china, the crystal glassware, the potted plants, the 17,000 bottles of champagne and the half-ton of caviar. Passengers had hardly disembarked at Southampton before vases and linens, cycling machines and weight-lifting equipment from the ship's gymnasium, and countless other items were packed in crates and hauled away. The paintings were...
Throughout the night the ship blazed, lighting up the harbor and causing the Cunard Countess to cast off from its neighboring berth and head for the safety of the open sea. The intense heat melted through the blue-and-white vessel's metal plating and buckled its superstructure. Authorities considered towing the ship out to sea in case it exploded, but were afraid it might capsize in the 20-m.p.h. wind. By early the next morning, the ship had settled to the bottom, its unsubmerged topsides still flaming. None of the passengers or 360 crewmembers were seriously hurt...
...empire in June, a wealthy English businessman named Victor Matthews said that his only injunctions to his staff were that they believe in Britain and seek to publish good news. These two demands he thought so commonsensical that he anticipated no trouble. Matthews may be competent at running the Cunard Line and London's Ritz Hotel-two of his company's many properties-but he just doesn't understand reporters and editors. They may believe in their country but recoil at the suggestion that they should play Goody Two-shoes...
...Serene Highness Princess Grace of Monaco graced a three-ringside seat at the opening night of the Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey Circus in Manhattan last week. The official reason for her presence in New York was the christening of a new, 750-passenger luxury liner, the Cunard Princess. Grace, 47, hurled the traditional bottle of bubbly with impressive brio. "Wonderful arm," quipped New York...