TS Queen Mary to leave the Thames

[snapper]

The wonderful old Queen Mary, the Clyde Steamer moored for so many years on the Thames at Waterloo Bridge is to leave London.

She will depart her moorings at 10.00am on Monday 9th November and will be manoeuvered and towed by three tugs.

Queen Mary's funnels have already been dismantled and are lying flat on her deck. She is a ship of some size so the sight of her leaving should be quite impresssive.

Her destination is La Rochelle where there are plans for her to be converted into a luxury boutique hotel. I suppose that's no worse than her role as a floating pub dor the last two decades; at least she's not being scrapped.

I though this post might be of interest for those in London on that day who may be near the river and would be interested to see her go.

[Andrew_Fanner]

Couple of photos would be nice. Surprised she's not on any historic ships/cant take her away list, thought all those along the Embankments were.

[TamarMike]

I don't think any of the historic vessels registers have any legal status. To preserve the City Adelaide she had to registered as a listed building but the museum owning her could still apply for and got permission to demolish her.

[ctelfer38]

I understand she will be towed to Tilbury and then shipped from there on something a but larger than she is!!

[62roome]

Interesting - I see that there's nothing on the Tower Bridge lift schedule for Monday next .... are we sure of this info? (No intention of impugning your sources, merely suprised that they haven't notified the lift).

I will be in the area and will aim for pics at Tower Bridge - sadly, the boat is at Penton Hook at the moment so no chance of following QM down the river - a couple of shots at the barrier may be possible from the park though ..... we shall see.

[Minn]

Is she coming back again after the refit?

[CapMar]

The following link can be copied & pasted in the navigation bar to the website of the company co-ordinating the delivery of the Queen Mary.

http://capitalmarine.net/news_item2.htm

Photos and further details will be added after the delivery has been completed.

[LiquidHighwayBen]

A few pictures & and a video of the tow that i took yesterday can be seen here :

http://turbinesteamers.awardspace.co...2009%20BEN.htm

[TrueBlue]

Originally Posted by LiquidHighwayBen

A few pictures & and a video of the tow that i took yesterday can be seen here :

http://turbinesteamers.awardspace.co...2009%20BEN.htm

Lovely -
The embedded version stopped part way through for me, but the YouTube site worked well.

Great engine sound from the tug, it must be a big Gardner, 8LW perhaps, though I didn't see any smoke ( )

[DownWest]

Don't often look on this site, but the local paper has been talking about the arrival a couple of weeks back. And dispelling the natural assumption about the name and transalantic similar named ship.
Andrew