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QUEEN ELIZABETH 2 (1969/70327grt/IMO 6725418) - There were no fireworks, no tugs with floodlit water plumes jetting into the night sky (Auckland currently has no firefighting-equipped  tug). In fact there was little to show that an era in New Zealand's maritime history was about to draw to a close.

At a little after 2200 hours tonight (21 February 2008), Cunard's iconic QUEEN ELIZABETH 2 slipped her moorings in Auckland, New Zealand and bade farewell for the last time. 

Three blasts of the ship's siren was greeted with rapturous cheers from the crowds of Aucklanders who turned out to say goodbye to the Falklands War veteran and Grand Old Lady of the Oceans.

But sadly, apart from an assembled flotilla of maybe half a dozen small ferries, the preserved vintage steam tug William C. Daldy and just a handful of private pleasure craft, her departure was a big non-event. 

If it had not been for the hoards of

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