QE2 Grounding

[Guest]

Hi All

I see that the Marine Accident Investigation Board (MAIB) have produced their Preliminary Report into the grounding of the QE2 in the Solent back in November:

'Completed PE Summary

Queen Elizabeth 2

Category:    Merchant vessels
Vessel name:    Queen Elizabeth 2
Manager:    Carnival plc
Ship Owner:    Carnival plc trading as Cunard Line
Port of Registry:    Southampton
Flag:    UK
Classification Society:    Lloyd's Register
Type:    Passenger
Built:    1969
Construction:    Steel
Length overall:    293.52m
Gross tonnage:    70,327
Date & Time:    0500 UTC, 11 November 2008
Location of incident:    Solent
Incident Type:    Grounding
Persons onboard:    1725 passengers; 1000 crew
Injuries/fatalities:    None
Damage/pollution:    None

Synopsis

At 0500 UTC on 11 November 2008, the Queen Elizabeth 2 ran aground in Stanswood Bay, in the Solent, during her final arrival to her home port of Southampton.

The bridge team

[ChasB46]

The webmaster at ais.live has produced a video of the plot of the grounding at http://www.ais-live.co.uk/Videos/qegrounding.html
the black icons are the tugs

[Guest]

What an excellent and if I so myself, highly entertaining thing to produce  :-)

Regards

[Kelvin Davies]

Nice!
It was rather hilarious to watch the antics of the SP launch when the ship grounded; round and round, back and forth in a proper tizz wozz!
Kelvin