Fanfares and fireworks herald QM2 launch

Seventy years of seafaring were linked today as, amid fanfares and fireworks, the Queen officially named the Queen Mary 2.

Fanfares and fireworks herald QM2 launch
Thu, 08 Jan, 2004 - 17:50

Seventy years of seafaring were linked today as, amid fanfares and fireworks, the Queen officially named the Queen Mary 2.

Before 2,000 guests seated in a quayside marquee in Southampton, the naming by the Queen followed the launch by her grandmother Queen Mary of the first Queen Mary ship on Clydeside in 1934.

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