The 90,900gt Queen Elizabeth anchored at Athol Buoy, off Taronga Zoo, in Sydney Harbour and the company’s flagship, the recently remastered Queen Mary 2, berthed at the Overseas Passenger Terminal, Sydney Cove.
The OPT cannot berth two ships the size of the Queens and Queen Elizabeth is too big to go under Sydney Harbour Bridge to get to the White Bay Cruise Terminal.
Queen Elizabeth, named after the original Queen Elizabeth that was launched in 1938, met up with Queen Mary 2 in Sydney Harbour on February 22, 2011, when Queen Elizabeth was making her maiden world voyage and Queen Mary 2 was making her fourth visit to Australia.
This historic meeting recalled an earlier royal rendezvous when the original Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth, then both troopships carrying soldiers to war, passed each other at Sydney Heads on April 9, 1941.
Saturday’s royal rendezvous comes 10 years after Queen Mary 2 paid her first visit to Sydney on February 20, 2007, bringing the city to a standstill as spectators lined the foreshores to see her meet up with the legendary QE2.
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