Cunard Line has ordered a new 92,000 GT, 2,092-passenger ship, to be named Queen Elizabeth and enter service in the autumn of 2010. The new ship has been ordered from Fincantieri’s Monfalcone yard near Trieste. (Queen Victoria, set to enter service this December, is being built at Fincantieri’s Marghera yard in Venice.)
The name Queen Elizabeth [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Cunard Line’
Wednesday, 10 October 2007
New Queen Elizabeth to Debut in 2010
Friday, 14 September 2007
QE2 to Sail Around Britain on 40th Anniversary Cruise
Tomorrow Cunard’s legendary Queen Elizabeth 2 will depart Southampton on a historic cruise around Britain celebrating the 40th anniversary of her launch by HM the Queen in Clydebank, Scotland on 20 September 1967.
Departing from Southampton, she will make a maiden call at Newcastle-upon-Tyne before continuing on to South Queensferry (Edinburgh), Greenock (Glasgow) and Liverpool. The [...]
Monday, 10 September 2007
Camilla to Name Queen Victoria
Cunard announced today that HRH the Duchess of Cornwall will name Queen Victoria in Southampton on 10 December. She will attend the naming ceremony along with HRH the Prince of Wales.
Cunard is quick to point out that every Queen so far has been named by a member of the Royal Family, but it is worth [...]
Wednesday, 29 August 2007
John Heald Interviews Alan Buckelew & Bernie Warner; Visits Queen Victoria
Carnival’s John Heald has kept his blog busy with interviews with Princess CEO Alan Buckelew - continuing his series of Carnival Corporation & plc Presidents and CEOs - and Cunard Commodore Bernie Warner along with a visit to Queen Victoria at Fincantieri’s Marghera yard in Venice. While the ship is of course still unfinished, John [...]
Thursday, 28 June 2007
Ben Lyons on QE2’s Retirement
Today Cruise Critic ran a great article by my friend Ben Lyons, a QM2 deck officer and one of the biggest QE2 fans I know, on that ship’s impending retirement.
Click here to read the article.
