MS Queen Elizabeth: How The Luxurious $450M Cruise Ship Was Constructed
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- The Queen Elizabeth will be one of Britain’s greatest ships. The new pride of the Cunard Line is being built at a cost of £350 million. This documentary gives privileged access to the construction of an exciting new generation of ocean-going liners; a 92,000-tonne ship designed to double as a transatlantic express and a cruise ship. Our cameras were there at the laying of her keel; we follow the building of her superstructure, the installation of the massive engines, the fitting out of sumptuous staterooms, recruitment of exceptional staff - from the captain down. This is a story of great engineering endeavour, brought alive by unique archive film of the first Queen Elizabeth and the legendary Queen Mary. It will intrigue and fascinate those who love tales of the sea; of giant ships and of maritime engineering and of the human side of creating and manning one of the world’s greatest ships.
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This documentary seems to forget that Cunard had ships BEFORE the original Queens. They never mention the older Lusitania and Mauritania. And when talking about Southampton, It again doesn't go back farther then the late 40's. That's the same dock the Titanic left from. Nice bit of history, I would think was worth pointing out.
And the Aquitania, survived 2 World Wars.
I think they know that they were talking about its sister
I think they know but they're irrelevant to this story
Olympia, Britannia and of course Titanic.
Oops, typo . . . MAURETANIA.
Im amazed this ship was built to totality in such a short time…hats off to all the planners, engineers, builders,artists and all the staff for an excellent job!
I must say this documentary says a lot of this Great ship. My wife and I were on board sailing around Australia from Melbourne, Adelaide, Tasmania and back to Melbourne. It was a magnificent Ship and a privileged and it was an honor to sail on. I would have loved to be on the bridge sailing on her as it is so advanced with technology and was not in my days of sailing going up for my Master's licence in 1973 we were just coming into more technology. Most advance ship I sailed on was bridge control and unmanned engine room. Since CUNARD has started this run Melbourne back to Melbourne the bookings on board to sail on her has been high. Being named after the Great Queen the ship lives up to her name.
She is an engineering marvel, of that there can be no doubt but these modern cruise line liners aren't nearly as beautiful as their past predecessors.
The modern Cunard Queens and the Disney Cruise ships are really the only ships that can compete with the old ocean liners. Well at least they look better than the floating hotel blocks that we have today.
I absolutely agree! 👏
I’ve recently been on this ship. It so beautiful 😍 on the inside & the crew give excellent friendly service.
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@ PETA WELLCOME ON-BOAD AGAIN
That’s that White Star Service
Hate to ask but how much was it would be fun i love going on boats
At 20:32 The hard working Filipinos who served hundreds of Cruise Liners around the Globe.. God Bless You!
It's really bad for the Filipinos this corona situation. They don't get much help from the government.
Thank you Mr. Casron for narrating a wonderful documentary. :)
Great documentary, brought back happy memories of my time working on QE2 in the 80's.
Sounds amazing!
At 30:12, it would have been amazing if her majesty would have said, "I name this ship 'Shippy McShipface..." She's the Queen, they would have had to go with it!
They wouldn't have to. She named Queen Elizabeth 2 "Queen Elizabeth II", they simply issued a press release insisting that the name would be Queen Elizabeth 2
To go along with Boatie McBoatface?
Paul T. And I’m pretty sure there is a research sub called subby mcsubface
"I name this ship, Queen Elizabeth...again..." HRM Queen Elizabeth
LOL I would've DIED if she did that....
Let me get this straight: when a ship is an ocean liner, people call it a cruise ship. But when a ship is in fact a cruise ship, they call it a liner.
Queen Mary 2 is the only Liner that exists.
@@austindreyer2930 It is so annoying when they do, she was even referred upon as "A SUPER LINER" Don't they have no respect and pride in their work as commenters on doucs like this... :/
You probably want to edit Jimmy Saville out of this at 37:37. Great interiors, the outside, it looks like a hotel.
6 months from the laying of the keel to a floating hull?! Wow, amazing feat of construction.
wow that picture of the queen fantastic!! The only thing that spoils this is jimmy fkn saville
Not like the Royal's didn't know what he was at! They protected him because he knew everything that they were at which was basically the same shit he was in to...
Idk why I have been watching so many of these documentaries late at night
I can suggest the THE CARNIVALGUY said it well. When you look at the truely Great Liners pre-1940 and there floating skyscrapers on their side the only work is Ugly. The Great Liners had a curve to the deck, a graceful forward deck before the structure rose to moderate heights. The fantail was a gentle ending to the superstructure and then the graceful reverse curve of the stern down to the water line. Long, sleek, a wonderful, awe inspiring sight. Yes, the staff of the modern cruise ship comes mostly from little places that can hire the workers at the lowest cost. Ugly though the exterior of this may be - they certainly got the art-deco right. It is beautiful. The design of the ship - Pack them in - all you can get in one cruise.
9:09 That scared me! I though the Queen was sitting right behind her lol.
I know it is strictly business, but if everyone from the ship operating company, to the captain and designers etc. were so insistent on the nationalistic aspect of this vessel, they really should have had it built in Britain. Ordering it from Italy and parading it as a British creation, with all the usual pomp and circumstance, is somewhat disingenuous if it isn't actually 'made in UK'.
Check the list of British Shipbuilders. Most are defunct or can't build ships of this size anymore. Looking at the list I even think there are none left at this point.
And the Queen Mary II was built in France, but at least it looked like a great ship.
@@jlamm2223443 The bow of the Queen Mary 2 is amazing. It's unique in it's shape for being built in the 2000's. Truly great craftsmanship by Chantier De'l Atlantique.
I think the Italians did a great job in building that British Ship.
We it is a british ship. It it registered in Britian. And they never claim that it was buit in Britian. It is indeed a shame that it was not build in the UK, but we just don't have those kinds of ship yards anymonre. You will find that most cruise companies have there ships built in other countries now. Sad, but thats the way it is.
By the way, Samuel Cunard was Canadian. He was born in Halifax.
Of which Canada, was part of the BRITISH Empire
+ Dan Cusing .... Canada is still part of the Commonwealth but Canadians are not British. Even in the 1800s Canada was very independeant.
Cunard died in 1865, which was two years prior to the Constitution Act officially proclaiming the Canadian Confederation (July 1, 1867), initially with four provinces: Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick. At the time of his death, Cunard would have been a British subject.
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Good luck with everything that comes your way and safe travels
9:09 she's so pretty!
12:43-The OG Queen Mary, and QM2. What a sight to behold!
The True Cunard ships, imo
That fire was sabotage!
@@LynxStarAuto Why would it be?
@@LynxStarAuto Was there any motive on why?
@@HorseCrazieGirl15 These ships and the Lusitania Class ships are in my opinion the best looking Cunard ships.
What a beautiful ship. The marquetry is absolutely stunning, and the portrait of the Queen is historical. Well done, Cunard.
Nothing beautiful is in the silhouette of floating hotel rather than passenger ocean liner.
"Britain's Greatest Ships: Queen Elizabeth" narrated by Jim Carter, who portrayed Mr. Carson on "Downton Abbey".
I knew I recognized the voice!
I recognized right away!
I thought so! I recognized his voice right away!!
Britain's Greatest Ships.. Built designed an engineered in Italy..." British cheapness at its finest " Chef has Only two days prepare his cooking staff "... so stupid.
I am an ocean liner enthusiast from the Golden Age of transatlantic travel. I prefer the great liners built from 1890-1940, whether British, German, French, or Italian. These boxy structures have no appeal to me whatsoever. From the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse to the incomparable Normandie, and all those that came in between, they are the true ocean liners. But that's just my opinion. Cheers.
Do u like QM2? that's the only new built
You should go check out the old Queen Mary in Long Beach, California.
It is really a floating masterpiece on the ocean.
Beautiful. I have a new appreciation for the ship. Still wonder if they could have had a more original exterior, but a beautiful ship and a lot of heart creating her.
The exterior is classic , historical Cunard line .
2:00 looks like the grand staircase of the titanic
I have a polarized view, on the outside the QE looks like a hotel upon a hull however her art deco interior is amazing.
A young Princess Elizabeth also sailed on the Queen Mary, which is now docked in Long Beach, CA
Sounds like Mr Carson from Downtown Abbey , is it ??
The queen Mary 2 had more explanation of the mechanical side of the ship
Blake Milliken bc qm2 is an ocean liner, actuallly interesting, unique. qe is just a vista class cruise ship, nothing new or innovative mechanically, just cunard paintjob and fittings
it is not a liner.it is a cruise ship..✌️✌️😃😃
Always wondered why they broke tradition and called her Queen Elizabeth instead of QE3..
because shes not from britain innit?!
um the qe2 was never originally going to be called the qe2 just the qe but thanks to our smart queen they called her qe2
Jake Farron Merlin the ship is a British ship owned and funded by a British company so you are wrong
The QE is a tribute to the 1940s RMS Queen Elizabeth.
@@harleyokeefe5193 She is owned by a british company who is owned by an american company. But she was built in a different nation. So tell where is the Britishnes at? Yes Cunard did pay for it but that is about it.
great video!
I live in Halifax, Nova Scotia which was the hometown of Samuel Cunard. Later Sir Samuel Cunard.
The first Queens were before my time but they were here many times during World War 2. My Dad worked them.
And after the war in passenger service. The second Queen Elizabeth (QE2) was here several times.
In gray after the Falklands Islands war even. And my sister is named (you guessed it) Mary Elizabeth!
Downton Abbey fans, did any of you recognize the voice of the narrator? Jim Carter, better known as Mr. Carson, the character he plays in the popular TV drama. An unmistakable voice.
6 Cunard "Queens" have been built. Only one - The QE (1940) - is gone. I just wonder which one of them will survive longest. The QM (1936) has been a floating hotel in Long Beach for 50 years now, without drydocking. The bottom of the ship needs extensive repair. Will it be done? After years of decay the QE2 (1969) is actually undergoing work to become a centerpiece of a new $ 3 billion luxury marina in Dubai. Will it be successful? All the active ships, QM2 (2004), QV (2007) and QE (2010) will most likely be scrapped after 20 - 30 years. The QM2 is the only of these 3 which will have some historical value, but she would be too expensive to maintain after her retirement anyway.
QM2 is designed for a 40 year active service life. If I'm going to be fussy too, QV (2007) and QE (2010) are not and never will be true "Queens" since they are not ocean liners - however much Carnival UK (Cunard's parent company) and the Cunard brand wanted us to think that until recently. Unfortunately many people have been duped by this incorrect marketing and it saddens me that many people don't do further research on the matter (unlike you for example - as we have spoken on my Dad's TH-cam videos).
THypher1
QM2 did her maidentrip in January 2004 - 14 years are already gone. I've watching documentries about the construction of the QM2, she's technically spoken a true ocean liner, also built in the same shipyard as the legendary liners SS Normandie and SS France. And I bet that the foredeck design is partially borrowed from them.
The QV and the new QE are nothing more than enlarged Vista-class cruise ships with reinforced bows. The QE is even more "boxy" than the QV. So even if they have the traditional color scheme they aren't real ocean liners. And the new ship Cunard is going to build will probably be even worse.
There's a well known true story from January 2008 when QE2 and QV did a Transatlantic crossing together and a storm hit them. The journey was still pretty smooth onboard QE2 but almost a chaos onboard QE, even if the QV is slightly longer and wider than QE2. So even if these new ships sail on the oceans sometimes, they are still better in calmer waters.
But l have to admire Cunard/Carnival for keeping up the ocean liner tradition, wthout the QM2 it would've been gone.
The got rid of the QE2's lifeboats. What a travesty!!
Nice to see a cameo appearance of Jimmy Saville 37.5 minutes in. 😱
I had the honor of working on Queen Victoria. It was lovely seeing some of the people I worked with on her, here in this video. She looks a fine ship. I can’t wait to sail in her. I got a bit of PTSD when I heard my cruise director’s voice. I was always a bit too “exuberant” for him. 😂😂
All is good, but the captain doesn't have a beard :(
they changed the captain before its first voyage anyways
Why the hell would you want a bearded Captain?? Didnt White Star Lines invoke that strategy, unsuccessfully I might add, back in 1912??
@@patrickmollohan3082 that's the joke 🤦🏻♂️
Watch the show on the QE2 and you will see why modern cruise ships are built in Italy and not in Britain. Fincantieri, in Italy, builds quality and on time. Brown, in Britain, has delays, strikes, theft, and vandalism.
Really nice thank you
I've been aboard the Queen's ship, have had quite an interesting life 🤣
She's not a Liner, she's a cruise ship.
Of COURSE it is possible to build one of these monoliths in 15 months. They're all made from pre-fab blocks put together like legos. These ships are the Liberty Ships of the cruise industry. Quickly produced. Quickly forgotten.
I mean...Old liners also took only around a year and a half to build
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Poor doc in this sense... how about less glass sculpture, art, pretty paintings and parquet panels... more Azipod thrusters, engines, safety systems, the tech that makes the ship move? Please? Plenty of art docs on YT. Not so many on ship building.
I've actually seem a lot more docs on how ships are put together than on how the interior is finished. Great doc.
Hey, 👋 know that voice! Carson from Downton Abbey
Beautiful , a little bit brown . I can't wait to sail on her ..
Amazing achievement. That portrait of the Queen was the best I've seen. I'm quite scared of very large ships, I remember being on the deck of QE2 and looking down from a great height. No doubt some inept Captain will run this beauty into rocks or an iceberg.
I like Cunard the most out of all company's as there ships remind u of the old great liners very elegant not a lot of slides and rainbow colours
3:07 for a second I thought he said deliver the s**t lol.
love the ending
Which is the largest cruise ship?
Symphony of the Seas (2018), GT 230,000
Sad that this “British” ship was not built in a British ship yard, helping British jobs and the British economy 🇬🇧🏴🏴🏴
Excellent
Great vidio, but the picture of Jimmie Savile at 37:36 is a bit inappropriate! 😶
Should all the crew members who directly gives their best service to the passengers speak english with RP accent?
Its just an ugly cruise ship. RMS QM2 was built for the rough crossings of the North Atlantic. She is the true pride of the line.
Captain Wells needs a smaller shirt. That blanket is like 3x sizes largen then what he needs.
i am just waiting for the first NORO Virus... a good PR film for Cunard. lets see if there are other episodes how she is really run. waste management, what is she running with? diesel? heavy,stinking, polluting fuel oil. how does the crew live? like rabbits in a cage? what are their salaries, working conditions... ( i am a Chef. was also working on ships....)
That's my biggest concern with these ships, the working conditions for the crew.
@@Nanomangd007 don't worry, conditions are dreadful.
Forgive me for saying but big British ships didn't really have much luck in the past. They even made a movie about it. I wonder what Leonardo DiCaprio would think
The Olympic, the Mauretania, the Aquitania, the Queen Mary, the Queen Elizabeth, etc, etc. These "Big British Liners" would say otherwise
39:40 cringgggeeeeeeee
I have this on the tv at work, chick is talking about drawing the queen I happened to look at the tv and did a double take cause I thought her painting was a person
50 Different Nationalities
You can't get more British than that.
And only £118,000 for the Privilege! 😂😂😂
Celebrities were invited along, up pops Jimmy Saville... this didn't age very well!!
Subtle British humor, eh?
This doc tells you details down to the amount of teabags theyll use but people in the comments are complaining they left out stuff a simple google search would tell you. Sheesh. No satisfying some people, i guess.
Great design, lovely interior. However, I find the colour , dark brown, a bit too heavy on the eyes and would have preferred a lighter shade or even a pastel colour.
It's brown in that central stairway. It gets more blue as you move out from the center of the ship.
"Bigger and faster than her predecessor"
Um...The R.M.S. Queen Elizabeth was 1,030 feet. QE3 is only 964 feet, and can only reach a speed of 23 knots, five knots less than her _namesake._
Great video, but this is a cruise ship, not an ocean liner. Queen Mary 2 is the only real ocean liner left in the world right now.
Karen Evans What’s the difference? Are you saying a cruise ship can’t cruise in some oceans. I suppose Captain Cook’s Endeavour was an ocean liner! What a load of rubbish.
@@jimmuleta2985 There are differences. An ocean liner is built to transport people to their destination on a sheduled transoceanic route 12 months a year, almost regardless of the weather.
A cruise ship is usually the destination herself, she _can_ cross oceans, but usually needs to avoid rough seas.
It's about their construction. Just as an example, RMS Queen Mary 2 (Which is an ocean liner) has approx. 3 feet deeper draught than Symphony of the Seas, the largest cruise ship in the World. This is just one of many details that differ an ocan liner from a cruise ship. An other is different bow design. An ocean liner's bow is more streamlined and built to go through the waves, and it doesn't "bump" against them like cruise ships seem to do.
The new QE is just an extended Carnival Vista class cruise ship with a reinforced bow. This still doesn't make her a real ocean liner.
You should know what you're talking about before calling other comments rubbish!
A BEAUTIFUL SHIP.
Sir, you have shit in your eye ! QE2 is a beautiful ship, qe is a hideous corruption of the worst juvenile ship design student that has ever turned on a pc screen .
I miss QE2.
News 2017: After years of decay the QE2 is actually undergoing work to become a centerpiece of a new luxury marina in Port Rashid, Dubai. This about 3 billion dollar project will take several years. The details of the refit of the QE2 is kept secret from the public but photos show that something is going on now.
sealover I just went on google earth, from street view, she being blocked by advertisements
QE2 will return and she will be preserved for profitable nostalgic cruises long after the hideous monster qm2 is gone . and the thing is already 15 years old so pehaps another 15 years if the thing is lucky. .
Is it the balconies that you hate? She is one of the most beautiful ships I have ever seen.
@@mburnhors why didn't the British buy her, and Dock her in Liverpool or Southampton! Bunch of Muslims are apparently the ones with the money. and she's almost completed as hotel ship. Not rotting like America's SS United States, she lost her sister ship SS America Star, to a storm whilst being towed, and she got beached Canary Islands, where she rotted and nothing exists of her.
This thing is a cruise ship and NOT an ocean liner.
Antoine Doinel apparently it is an ocean liner because it makes trans Atlantic crossings
Liner refers to scheduled services on regular basis as opposed to charter operations.
sam phi true but a cruise ship isn't exactly a charter operation.
That bugs me each time the narrator says it. Only the QM2 can be called a liner.
Thank you, I was just about to comment that. The QE and QV are just cut-and-paste models of Holland America Line-style cruise ships. The bows look nice, but the sterns are very plain. Only huge difference is that the HAL ships have two smaller funnels right next to each other.
CUNARD GOING TO BUILD ANOTHER OCEAN LINER?? LIKE THE QM2
is queen elizabeth an ocean liner because if you look at the design she doesn't even look like an ocean liner as same as the QM2 they're look like cruise ships tbh they does
I love these Cunard ships as they still hold prestige and remnants of past ocean liner history, unlike the ugly cookie-cutter monstrosities of the "oasis of the seas" type cruise ships.
Is that a UFO at 18:34 ?
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i hate the sturn of the ship
Unfortunately it had to be that way to provide bouyancy for all those cabins aft. If it had been a canoe stern which does look much better, the arse would have sunk down
you mean *stern*
We are proud to be British lol 😂 but didn’t build your ship in the 🇬🇧 and 90 percent of your staff our outsourced foreign labour ? Where is your loyalty ? Just marketing blah blah blah
Actually it’s because of labor laws. They outsource to countries that have low minimum wages and lower labor laws. It’s much cheaper to outsource than it is to stay loyal.
i live near molfacone AKA MS queen elizabeth'sbirth place!
Heh, that word "Southampton" on the stern lasted all of 5 minutes. It now sports the name of some other port name, in a country where the labour laws are more relaxed.
Now the port on her Stern is Hamilton, Bermuda.
Most beautyfull ship ever build
So...the Queen Elizabeth was built by the Italians for an American company - is staffed mainly by Asians...has a foreign head chef...spent most of 2019 on an extended voyage to Australia...but is quintessentially British....yeah...right!!!!
you certainly must be exact with the teabags... can't disappoint the English and you certainly cannot have them go to waste on the ship... the costs can be substantial
You should have painted the queen as a lizard and see her reaction lol
What happened to the Queen that was retired ?
The QE2 was bought by a company in the United Arab Emirates, and turned into a permanently docked hotel in Dubai, similar to the Queen Mary.
'How do cruise ships work'
No....... 'how do cruise ships leave shipyard to home birth'. Nothing to do with how they 'work'.
Oh, and how they time fitting their artwork.
Pretty ordinary!
How is it "Britain's" Largest Liner when it is built in Italy? FREE TRADE = DEMISE.
Good point
Dwight Looi it’s irrelevant where it’s built, because the actual build team is primarily British and its funded and owned by Cunard (a British company)
Nick Peters it’s not a cruise ship dumbass it only does crossings across the Atlantic it doesn’t cruise
Nick Peters I admit my bad on this, I thought the video was referring to the QE 2 the ocean liner not the QE cruise ship, that’s my bad and I apologise for the misunderstanding and the insult.
And its not owned by an American company as Carnival is registered in a tax haven country
I wish cunard rebuilt the aquitania and muertania and lusitania
Who's the narrator? It sounds like Jim carter?
It’s not about the boat it’s a lot more about how the titanic was sinking in 1912
13:57 QE2
The ship is not named after the Queen. Her name as a reigning Monarch can only be used on a Navy ship, which it now has been on the new aircraft carrier Queen Elizabeth.
C. Man it is named after the Queen.
C. Man how can we make it more obvious that it named after her? 😂😂😂😂
The reigning monarch cannot name a civilian ship with their name, therefore Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth who were both consort Queens could have their names on civilian ships. On the books this ship is Queen Elizabeth ( III ). When the Queen named QE2, it was not after herself, but it was named as the second Cunard ship to bare the name Queen Elizabeth. So can you tell me why there is a 2 used on the ship Queen Elizabeth 2 ?
Her mother and grandmother were both consort Queens, so their names could be used on civilian ships, the reigning monarch either King or in this case Queen can only have their name on a military vessels.
Sorry Timothy B, but you're wrong. If you were to check with Cunard and the British D.O.D. you would find out her name can only be on a naval ship as a reigning Monarch.
hope it is a clean ship
I think that’s an ocean liner rather than a cruise ship on the thumbnail.
It's just a pity it doesn't have a fully British, considering they keep saying it's A British tradition.🤔🤔🇬🇧