1977 Queen's Jubilee on QE2

[Rob Lightbody]

Does anyone have any information about what happened on QE2 in 1977, to celebrate the Queen's jubilee?

[Twynkle]

QE2 was at the 1977 Spithead Silver Jubilee Review
http://uat.art247.com/Canvas/12513

(Although I don't think she's listed here:
http://battleshiphmsvanguard.homestead.com/JubileeReview1977.html   )

[Michael Gallagher]

She wasn't at the actual formal Review she sailed through the rehearsal a few days before the formal Review.

[Bob C.]

Here's a link to the Fleet Review I posted a while back - https://www.theqe2story.com/forum/index.php/topic,41.0.html .

Also at the other end of this trans-Atlantic was "Operation Liner" in New York.  Photos of both events can be found on the referenced link.

[Tony]

The day of the rehearsal was awesome. We left the dock around noon I think, then sailed down the roads and thru a line of ships all dressed out. We must have left at noon, because the Red arrows fly past and then Concorde over all of us. The company I worked for, Ocean Pictures had a photog up in a Royal Navy Helo and got some great shots.

[Bob C.]

The company I worked for, Ocean Pictures had a photog up in a Royal Navy Helo and got some great shots.

Again the small world created by this forum just got smaller.  Here's a picture taken by the Ocean Pictures photographer on that day -

https://www.flickr.com/photos/33120597@N03/4622784313/in/set-72157624098080404


29 by reltco, on Flickr

I am the only one on the port side of the mast on the mast deck.  My dad is on the other side, same deck, taking a picture of the helicopter.  Here's the picture he took -

https://www.flickr.com/photos/33120597@N03/4623391520/in/set-72157624098080404


28 by reltco, on Flickr

[Tony]

The photog on the Helo was Stuart Hunter-Cox, owner of Ocean Pictures.

[Isabelle Prondzynski]

The photog on the Helo was Stuart Hunter-Cox, owner of Ocean Pictures.

Thank you, Tony, for that! I do love it when we can add more information and get ever closer to completing a picture!

I did not even know of QE2's existence at the time, but can "re-live" some of it through these stories...