Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/03/10

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Subject: [Leica] Queen Elizabeth in town
From: lluisripollquerol at gmail.com (Lluis Ripoll)
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 22:31:19 +0100
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Really impressive!

Good pictures,

cheers
Lluis



El 10/03/2011, a las 7:50, H&ECummer escribi?:

> Hi Luggers,
> The new Cunard liner Queen Elizabeth was docked at the Ocean  
> Terminal in Tsim Sha Tsui today and I took some pictures as I rode  
> across from Central on the Star Ferry. Taken with the Panasonic GH2  
> and the 14 - 140 zoom and lightly processed in CS4.
> A couple of them are in this folder:
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/QE/
>
> Some info on the ship:
> Launched Oct 2010 by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth
> Country of Registry Great Britain
> Speed 23.7 knots
> Gross Tonnage 90,900 GRT
> Guest Capacity 2,068
> No. of Crew 996
> Length  964.5 feet  (the Empire State Building is 1,250 feet tall  
> including the antenna that King Kong swings from)
> Width 106 feet
> Draft 25.9 feet
>
> Tsim Sha Tsui was humming with the 2000 passengers from the Queen  
> competing with the Mainland tourists to see who could be fleeced the  
> fastest. :-0
> I bought what I had to and got out of there.
> C&C always welcome.
> Cheers
> Howard
>
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