While all eyes in the UK were focused on the snow yesterday, over near Trieste, Italy, shipworkers at Fincantieri's Monfalcone shipyard had a much bigger thing on their mind.
The float-out of Cunard's new ship Queen Elizabeth. That's the moment when the dry-dock valves are opened and water hits the hull for the first time.
It's now all hands on deck to get the vessel ship-shape in time for its naming ceremony in Southampton on October 11 and maiden cruise to the Canary Islands departing the next day.
Jane Archer
