Went to the beach as soon as we arrived in Fareham, we were just in time to see the sun go down and the new luxury liner sail past after being named and launched by her name sake Queen Eliazabeth. We all expected her to be the QE3 but there you go there is no third queen Elizabeth yet!

THe night was warm and everybody was really friendly - hearing our accents they all wanted to point out that the tub sailing out in front of her was the Waverly - fresh from her career of taking passengers to Bute.

After sitting on the front for a wee while  we saw the vessel ditch her tugs and sail between us and the Isle of Wight - before long all her steaming lights came on and she was lit up like a Christmas tree - very pretty but too dark to take pictures. We understand she sailed for the Canaries - too late they failed to take two would be Spanish Missionaries on board...