Author Topic: One of QE2's Red Rescue Lifeboats turned into Docker Cafe (Read 1966 times)

Louis De Sousa · « **on:** Oct 20, 2018, 07:49 AM »

Here you see the red rescue lifeboat at Cruise Terminal 3 before and now its be turned into a smal coffee shop called Docker Caffe.

Rob Lightbody · « **Reply #1 on:** Oct 20, 2018, 12:07 PM »

Quote from: Davina on Oct 20, 2018, 07:49 AM

Here you see the red rescue lifeboat at Cruise Terminal 3 before and now its be turned into a smal coffee shop called Docker Caffe.

Hmm. Filling it with concrete isn't the sort of preservation I had in mind.

If QE2 was somewhere more appropriate, people would have been interested to see this boat intact.

https://instagram.com/p/BpHtMb-FQjR?utm_source=ig_share_sheet&igshid=r7kzaw9q4wts

Thomas Hypher · « **Reply #2 on:** Oct 20, 2018, 12:24 PM »

Quote from: Rob Lightbody on Oct 20, 2018, 12:07 PM

Hmm. Filling it with concrete isn't the sort of preservation I had in mind.

If QE2 was somewhere more appropriate, people would have been interested to see this boat intact.

No, no, and more no. This is appalling. Concrete (alkaline) will destroy the lifeboat from the inside out over time too if my science is correct. Having said that they've destroyed it already. They have no idea, but not surprising really...

Rob Lightbody · « **Reply #3 on:** Oct 20, 2018, 12:35 PM »

Click here to link to our topic discussing these interesting and historic boats

Twynkle · « **Reply #4 on:** Oct 20, 2018, 06:32 PM »

Quote from: Rob Lightbody on Oct 20, 2018, 12:07 PM

Hmm. Filling it with concrete isn't the sort of preservation I had in mind.

If QE2 was somewhere more appropriate, people would have been interested to see this boat intact.

WWHHAAATT?
This is absolutely dreadful - Bad enough for the fast boats to be cut off from their proper place on the ship...and now, to go to the trouble of making it sinkable... How totally inappropriate is that.

QE2forever · « **Reply #5 on:** Oct 21, 2018, 08:35 AM »

Not really impressed, to say the least.

Rob Lightbody · « **Reply #6 on:** Oct 21, 2018, 09:56 AM »

Here we are beavering away trying to uncover the true story of the rescue boats in that topic above, and they're filling the real boat up to the brim with concrete.

June Ingram · « **Reply #7 on:** Oct 22, 2018, 04:19 PM »

Unbelievable !!

Rod · « **Reply #8 on:** Oct 22, 2018, 10:57 PM »

They got the idea from the Royal Yacht???

Rob Lightbody · « **Reply #9 on:** Nov 07, 2018, 06:12 PM »

https://instagram.com/p/Bp4wE7FAUAN?utm_source=ig_share_sheet&igshid=jatvwkynh0hp

Louis De Sousa · « **Reply #10 on:** Nov 08, 2018, 10:31 AM »

They are doing well with the crew from the incoming cruise ships

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Author Topic: One of QE2's Red Rescue Lifeboats turned into Docker Cafe (Read 1966 times)

Louis De Sousa

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