A giant cruise liner has once again dominated the horizon on Scarborough’s South Bay as the Queen Elizabeth sails past.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RTdVbXZ224

The 90,000-ton ship was less than a mile off shore.

The journey is part of the ship’s maiden Round Britain voyage, which started on Friday as she departed from Southampton on the ten-night trip.

The Queen Elizabeth, is Cunard’s newest ship, and follows in the footsteps of the QE2 and the Queen Mary 2, which have both sailed past close to the South Bay.

The ship joined the Cunard fleet in October 2010, and has been designed internally to replicate the 1930’s/40’s heritage of the first ship to bear her name.

The giant vessel measures 964.5 feet long and 106 feet wide, carries 2,068 guests and 996 crew and travels at a speed of up to 23.7 knots.


Scarborough's Hispaniola tourist Pirate ship in the foreground was simply dwarfed by The QE