MISSING, LOST AND WRECKED SHIPS
OF THE WORLD
compiled 3-25-00
updated 11-24-07
THE QUEEN ELIZABETH II
IS THIS A PROPHECY?
2-3-05 - DREAM - I was an investigator for a large
company. This company was involved in a lot of things, so I was able to
travel around and look at interesting things, but there was always a
problem to solve. The first thing I saw was a sky blue planet. Its number was 333 and I
was shown that there was one man standing on it. I came to know that the
planet was called Earth.
Then I saw how the man taught his children. They were taught by
experience.
The man sat his one year old daughter down on the floor in a small
room and lit a candle and taught her how to blow at it - hopefully to
blow it out like one does with a birthday candle. Then he did it again and put her in a closet with the lit candle on
the floor and then started covering the girl and the candle with tents
of paper toweling.
I panicked, knowing how dangerous that is, and I tried to grab the
paper toweling away from the candle and the man sto ed me. He said,
I taught her how to blow out the candle, now she has to learn by
experience that that is what she has to do before the paper catches
I didn't like such a dangerous way to teach something to a child but
I could stop the man from teaching the child the way he wished to. I next went to an apartment building where they were having a problem
with gas stoves not working properly.
All the stoves were in one room, side by side and all hooked together
on one gas line. The stoves themselves were large as stoves go, but each
one only had two burners which wa 't exce ive, but the first stove had
both burners on and the gas was blue but po ing in and out like there
wa 't enough oxygen for the gas su ly, one could easily see the
problem and one couldn't use all those stoves at the same time. There
was neither enough gas, nor was the oxygen ratio good enough to keep the
flame lit on one stove much le all the stoves.
I then went to a large store at a mall. The first problem I saw was
that the floor was slanted and then I saw that the floor was dented in
many places and something with water in it was leaking and the water
accumulated in the low ots where it shouldn't be because people had to
walk there and that was dangerous, so I recommended that the entire
floor be replaced. At the store, I met a young woman who had a similar job to mine, but
she was wearing 4-wheel boot roller-skates and she really got around
fast from place to place.
I admired her energy and ambition and I wanted to be more like her,
so I thought maybe we could work together on one investigation. She showed me a museum diorama with three windows and in each window
was a painting of a ma ive ship that had sailed the seas in the past,
but no longer did because there had been a problem and the ship had
sunk. All the windows in the diorama were dark, but there was just
enough light to see the names on the shi . I didn't see the name on the second ship but the third one was clearly Queen Elizabeth II.
I questioned that. The Queen Elizabeth II was sailing the seas - what
was wrong with it? Why was it pictured in the dark like other past
doomed shi .
Here was the perfect investigation the other girl and I could do
together. Prevent the Queen Elizabeth II from going down like the other
shi had.
The other girl started writing up a report on this investigation and
wanted a number a igned to the report. I said, We can't put a
number on a report until we've actually done some work on it.
She was rather put out because she had already done some preliminary
work on the problem, but I hadn't done anything yet, so I couldn't
a ign a number to the report yet.
The woman on skates left for a few moments and I looked at her desk
which had several large, thick folders, full of photographs and reports
of past things she had investigated.
So I tried to find the report she had started on the Queen Elizabeth
II to a ign a number to the investigation, but I couldn't find it. She
had already taken the report and started the investigation without
me. She was on
skates and I was walking so she would get there before
me. So I took a train to get to the ship quicker and I was laying down
relaxing while the train was moving. We were going under bridges that
all had our company name on because we owned the railroad too.
On each yellow covered bridge overhead, that we went under was the
name DON.
Queen Elizabeth II
Cunard Line proudly continues a tradition of luxury cruising that began in 1840. Today its flagship, Queen Elizabeth 2, is the
world's most famous ship and the greatest liner of her time. She
maintai the legacy of her Cunard and
White Star Line(
predece ors in providing a
definitive a ual World Cruise and the only scheduled
tra atlantic liner service. QE2 very much sets the standard of
traditional British elegance, superb White Star Service(
gourmet cuisine and sumptuous accommodatio that have secured
Cunard's reputation. In 2000, QE2 was joined by another cla ic liner, Caronia, formerly known as Vistafjord, which also delivers an elegant,
Old World cruising experience. Whether on voyages or cruises,
these two Cunard Line ve els create a new golden age of ocean
liner travel, for those who mi ed the first.
She was built by the Clydebank yards of John Brown and
Company, with the first keel plates laid on June 5, 1965. She
was launched by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, on September 20, 1967. Incidentally, this event ha ened two days before the
made her last departure from New York City.
Queen Elizabeth 2
(commonly called the
left for her sea trials on November 26, 1968. However, she had
serious turbine problems, as well as other embarra ing defects. Cunard refused to accept her in such a state, and she returned to her
builders to repairs to be made. O January 2, 1969, the
Elizabeth 2
entered Southampton. However, problems were again
encountered, and Cunard again refused her. With great
embarra ment, her maiden voyages (five had been scheduled as
maide quot; sailings) were cancelled, and she was sent back to
the Clydebank. This would not be the last time that the
Elizabeth 2
would encounter technical problems.
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The first dramatic incident of the ship's career occurred
in January 1971. Whilst cruising in the Cari ean it received an SOS call
from the French liner
Antilles
. It had run aground near Mustique
and leaking fuel oil had caught fire i ide the ship. By the time the
arrived the French ship was an inferno. The pa engers had already been
taken ashore to Mustique in the lifeboats. The pa engers boarded the
and two other French shi that had come to a ist, during the night. The
Antilles
ca ized and sank the next day and the pa engers were landed in Barbados.
Whilst traveling from New York to Southampton, on 17 May
1972, the captain received a me age that there was a bomb on board and
that it was timed to go off during the voyage. A search by crew members
proved fruitle so a bomb di osal unit was flown out and parachuted into
the sea close to the ship. The incident turned out to be a hoax but the
FBI succeeded in arresting the culprit. The bomb di osal team were
awarded the Queen's Commendation for Brave Conduct. By 1974 the cruising
busine had expanded and the
was operating profitably. On 1
April that year, whilst on a cruise from New York to San Juan, a technical
fault caused the propulsion machinery to shut down. The ship was disabled
and it was not until 3 April that the
Sea Venture
, a Flagship
Cruises ve el, arrived to a ist. The pa engers were tra ferred
tugs were hired to tow the
back to Bermuda. Su equent repairs
meant that the Easter cruise had to be cancelled.
returned to Southampton on 11 June and work began on
restoring the ship for commercial service. Following its a ual overhaul,
in November 1983, the ship developed boiler problems which resulted in the
cancellation of a cruise. The following year, in April, the ship suffered
minor damage after colliding with a breakwater at the Piraeus, in Athe ,
but repairs were carried out quickly. In October an electrical fire caused
a complete lo of power and delayed the
for two days. On its
return to Southampton it was decided that diesel engines would have to be
fitted to the ship in order to increase efficiency. This was done by Lloyd
Werfte at Bremerhaven and was expected to save the company