{"id":160633,"date":"2026-02-02T19:12:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T19:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/160633\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T19:12:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T19:12:07","slug":"queen-mary-2-makes-a-rare-west-coast-visit-to-the-queen-mary-in-long-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/160633\/","title":{"rendered":"Queen Mary 2 makes a rare West Coast visit to the Queen Mary in Long Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Queen Mary 2 is briefly back in Los Angeles for the first time in two decades, and the luxury ocean liner took time to cruise by its namesake in Long Beach before docking.<\/p>\n

An early Monday morning rendezvous of the QM2 with the Queen Mary was celebrated with a deep, bellowing ship horn salute.<\/p>\n

The horn on board the QM2 was originally from the Queen Mary, which now serves as a Long Beach floating hotel, restaurant, and event space since her retirement as an active liner in 1967.<\/p>\n

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The Queen Mary 2 is welcomed to Long Beach as it visits the Queen Mary.<\/p>\n

CBS LA<\/p>\n

Dylan Matteson, director of experiences, called the meeting of the two ships a momentous occasion. “I couldn’t think of a better way to start the work week off, if you will\u2026It was amazing.”<\/p>\n

This also marks the 90th year since the Queen Mary’s 1936 maiden voyage, from Southhampton, England to Cherbourg, France. <\/p>\n

\u00a0“All year long, we are celebrating the 90th anniversary of our maiden voyage. It’s going to be a great year of exhibits, events and special things like this, but this was the perfect kick-off, if you will,” Matteson said.<\/p>\n

The QM2, the world’s only ocean liner currently in active service, is also celebrating its first voyage through the Panama Canal. <\/p>\n

The QM2, constructed in 2003, is on a 108-night world voyage with stops in Hong Kong, Sydney, Hong Kong, Cape Town, and this rare stop to the West Coast.<\/p>\n

The QM2 will depart from the Port of Los Angeles on Tuesday evening.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Queen Mary 2 is briefly back in Los Angeles for the first time in two decades, and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":160634,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-160633","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-long-beach","8":"tag-long-beach","9":"tag-long-beach-headlines","10":"tag-long-beach-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}