This month, much of the talk in the ocean liner and cruise ship community has been about Cunard’s latest addition to the fleet, Queen Victoria. She’s the first purpose-built cruise ship (please don’t call her an ocean liner) for Cunard in 30 years. That ship 30 years ago was Cunard Princess.
Cunard’s new 90,049-ton, 2,000-berth Queen Victoria has been named in Southampton by HRH Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall.
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Cunard Line has announced a change in the 2008 schedule of its 148,528 GT, 2,620-berth flagship Queen Mary 2. A schedule change in the ship’s maintenance program has resulted a 24-day drydock period being scheduled for October 2008, requiring the cancellation of four sailings.
Affected sailings are as follows: M841 (six-night westbound Transatlantic departing 22 October); [...]
This past Sunday, 25 November 2007, Cunard took delivery of the new 90,049 GT, 2,000-berth Queen Victoria at Fincantieri’s Marghera shipyard in Venice. This is the culmination of a process that began with the start of work on 14 April 2005 and continued with the keel laying on 19 May 2006 and float out on [...]
Cruise Critic editor Carolyn Spencer Brown visited Cunard’s new Queen Victoria at Fincantieri’s Marghera shipyard in Venice, where she’s being fitted out, and brings back great photos and videos of the newest addition to the Cunard fleet.
Cunard’s Carol Marlow also confirmed that Queen Elizabeth will be a sister of Victoria and “more similar than different”.
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