Queen Mary 2 & Queen Elizabeth 2
The 22nd October 2008 was a very sad day.  Exactly six months earlier was Three Queens Day when QE2 met QM2 and Queen Victoria in their home.  Now it was time for Mary and Lizzie to say goodbye.  Never again would these two be in any port together.  They had completed a roundtrip transatlantic when Lizzie said farewell to her second home all these decades, New York.  Mary had arrived first at 5.50am, docking starboard in Mayflower with a normal noon departure for refit in Hamburg.  Lizzie was the usual 7am, unusually docking starboard, but in QEII.  The last time she had been that way was the 18th April after returning from her final world cruise before being taken by tug up to 105 for her wet dock.  Ever since they began to reverse into the Itchen back in June when Pam and I were on Boudicca, I wanted this for Lizzie.  When they successfully did it twice with with Mary in August, I wanted it even more just once before she left.  The HAD to do it.  The 30th September originally listed her as starboard but they changed it to port.  I was very disappointed so was determined not to get my hopes up this time until she was really like that.  I was doing my last cruise on her but first had booked a harbour tour since it was a monumental maritime day so we went over earlier on the ferry.
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