Queen Elizabeth -

The Queen Elizabeth cruise ship is owned by the Cunard line. Cunard caters to people from Great Britain. The men wear tuxes and the women wear floor length gowns on gala dinner events. It is required. The ship also has afternoon English Teas. Another formal event. But on this cruise the English and Americans were the minority. It was mostly, at least half, were Japanese. Ship statistics: Passengers: 2092 guests, length 964', width 106', speed 27 mph. The ship was commissioned in Oct. 2010.

ENGLISH TEA TIME

TEA TIME ENTERTAINMENT

ITINERARY

QUEEN ELIZABETH CRUISE SHIP

Joanne getting on the
Queen Elizabeth.

The Queen Elizabeth is docked under a beautiful bridge in Yokohama Harbor.

Joanne relaxes on our veranda as we wait to sail.

The Queen Mary is very elaborately decorated. One of three atriums.

Another atrium from the upper floor.

This hallway is 900' long.

Our dinner guests. The couple on the left are from Derbyshire County UK and the couple on the right are from Scotland.

Our first lunch.

Our friends from New Zealsnd who we met in 2019 on a cruise.

Our first English Tea. See Video.

The English Tea's entertainment. See Video.

The Queen Elizebeth heads back to Tokyo.

We arrive at Tokyo to a clear blue sky.

With a telescopic we get a beautiful photo of Mt. Fuji.

Everything comes into place for a perfect photo.

The ships crew begins the task of securing the ship to the dock. A small rope is tossed to them.

The small rope is tied to the large rope needed to tie to the docks posts.

The large rope is looped around the docks post.

The crew does it over again for the next post.

A small rope is tossed again.

It takes allot of ropes to secure a cruise ship.

The coordinates for Tokyo are 4 degrees or 268 miles south of Denver's latitude. Note the speed.

Nagasaki was 587 miles southwest of Tokyo and 172 miles east of Busan. The distances are close. The ship never went over 13 mph.