"States, they met with President George W. Bush and First Lady Laura Bush at the White House. Afterwards they visited New Orleans to see the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and met with some of the residents whose lives were changed drastically by the hurricane. In March 2006, the couple undertook a visit to Egypt, Saudi Arabia and India. She conducted the naming ceremony for HMS ""Astute"" on 8 June 2007, and, on 10 December, she did the same for the new Cunard cruise ship, MS ""Queen Victoria"". In November 2007, the Duchess toured with the Prince of Wales on a"
"and 1948, when Cunard's original ""Queen Elizabeth"" was in service at the same time as the Royal Navy battleship . The Royal Navy's aircraft carrier went to sea the summer of 2017, six and a half years after the cruise ship entered service. ""Queen Elizabeth"" is almost identical in design to ""Queen Victoria"", although because of the steeper stern, her introduction into service the passenger capacity was slightly higher with up to 2,058 compared to ""Queen Victoria's"" 2,014. Also unlike many previous Cunard Queens, ""Queen Elizabeth"" is not a true ocean liner as she does not have the heavy plating"
"the tradition of Cunard ""Queens"" being named by royalty. The bottle of champagne did not break upon impact with ""Queen Victoria's"" hull, which according to nautical superstition is a bad omen. However, a backup bottle was immediately successful. Captain Paul Wright was appointed as the first master of ""Queen Victoria"" in October 2006. Captain Christopher Rynd became secondary master. Captain Ian McNaught briefly commanded ""Queen Victoria"" before transferring to Seabourn. ""Queen Victoria"" undertook her maiden voyage, a 10-day cruise to northern Europe, on 11 December 2007. Following this and a cruise to the Canary Islands, ""Queen Victoria"" embarked on her"
"promenades, etc.), the hull was then designated to become the P&O ship MS ""Arcadia"". A new ""Queen Victoria"" was subsequently ordered with Fincantieri in 2004, which was 11 metres longer, 5,000 tons larger, and with an increased passenger capacity of 2,000. The keel was laid on 12 May 2006. 80 prefabricated steel ""blocks"", each complete with interior structure, cabling, and ducts, and each weighing 325 tons, were then added. The completed hull with superstructure was floated out on 15 January 2007, after having a bottle of Prosecco smashed against her side by Maureen Ryan, a Cunard employee who has served"
"a lifeboat. The crew members involved were dismissed from service. On 5 November 2004, ""Queen Elizabeth 2"" became Cunard's longest serving express liner, surpassing the RMS ""Aquitania""s 35 years, while on 4 September 2005, during a call to the port of Sydney, Nova Scotia, ""QE2"" became the longest serving Cunarder, surpassing the s record. On 20 February 2007 ""Queen Elizabeth 2"", while on her annual world cruise, met her running mate and successor flagship ""QM2"" (herself on her maiden world cruise) in Sydney Harbour, Australia. This was the first time two Cunard ""Queens"" had been together in Sydney since the"
"MS Queen Elizabeth MS ""Queen Elizabeth"" (QE) is a cruise ship of the Vista class operated by the Cunard Line. The design is modified from that of previous ships of that class, and slightly larger than ""Queen Victoria"", at , largely due to a more vertical stern. The ship is able to carry up to 2092 passengers. The ship's name was announced by Cunard on 10 October 2007. Since the retirement of ""Queen Elizabeth 2"" in 2008 the company has operated three vessels. The naming of the ship as ""Queen Elizabeth"" brings about a situation similar to that between 1940"
"the installation of ""scrubbers"" and exhaust gas filters to reduce emissions. RMS Queen Mary 2 RMS ""Queen Mary 2 (also referred to as the QM2"") is a transatlantic ocean liner. She is the largest passenger ship built for the Cunard Line since ""Queen Elizabeth 2"" in 1969, the vessel she succeeded as flagship of the line. As of 2018, ""Queen Mary 2"" is the only passenger ship operating as an ocean liner. The new ship was named ""Queen Mary 2"" by Queen Elizabeth II in 2004 after the first of 1936. ""Queen Mary"" was in turn named after Mary of"
"United Kingdom-based Cunard Line. Although better known as luxury cruise operators, Cunard decided to maintain the original informal cruise concept developed for the ships by Overseas National Airways. ""Cunard Conquest"", the second of the two sisters, was launched from drydock in December 1974. Instead of having the ships completed at Burmeister & Wain, Cunard decided that once the hulls of the ships were complete they would sail to the Navali Mechaniche Affini in La Spezia, Italy, where interior fittings would be installed. Therefore, following delivery to Cunard on 30 October 1975 the ""Cunard Conquest"" sailed to La Spezia, where she"
"modern accounts continue to publish that the ""QE2"" was named after the reigning monarch, in 2001 and 2008. Cunard continued the two-suffix naming practice introduced with ""QE2"" with the launch of the new ocean liner in 2003, named after the previous ""Queen Mary""; however, the suffix '2' was required because of the continued existence of the TS ""Queen Mary"". The TS ""Queen Mary"" too had for a period been known as the TS ""Queen Mary II"" in a deal with Cunard that allowed Cunard to use 'Queen Mary' without suffix for their ocean liner. However, when Cunard announced that its"
"the space"" and noting that much effort is put into promoting the ship as a “haunted attraction"", while efforts to explain or preserve the factual history of the ship are ""somehow pushed to the wayside"". RMS Queen Mary The RMS ""Queen Mary"" is a retired British ocean liner that sailed primarily on the North Atlantic Ocean from 1936 to 1967 for the Cunard Line – known as Cunard-White Star Line when the vessel entered service. She was the flagship of the Cunard and White Star Lines, built by John Brown & Company in Clydebank, Scotland, ""Queen Mary"", along with ,"
"were ordered, until the Cunard liner ""Queen Elizabeth"" was finally dethroned from her 56-year reign as the largest passenger ship ever built (a dethronement that led to numerous further dethronements from the same position). Both the RMS (""QE2"") (1969) and her successor as Cunard's flagship (""QM2""), which entered service in 2004, are of hybrid construction. Like transatlantic ocean liners, they are fast ships and strongly built to withstand the rigors of the North Atlantic in line voyage service, but both ships are also designed to operate as cruise ships, with the amenities expected in that trade. ""QM2"" was superseded by"
"Mary 2"", but not available on ""Queen Victoria"". This service allows passengers in the ""Britannia"" staterooms to have single seating dining arrangements, without having to upgrade to the more expensive ""Grills"" classes. The sliding roof over the Winter Garden featured on ""Queen Victoria"" is replaced with a simple glass roof (the space being renamed ""The Garden Lounge""). Following the ship's construction in Italy from 2007 to 2010, Cunard Line officially confirmed that Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II would name Cunard's new ship. The ceremony was held in Southampton on Monday 11 October 2010 before the ship set sail on her"
"Southampton, to allow the ship to host on-board weddings. This marked the first time in its 171-year history that Cunard has not had a ship registered within the UK. Bermuda is a member of the Red Ensign Group and the ship continues to fly the undefaced Red Ensign rather than the Bermuda Red Ensign. On 10 January 2007, ""Queen Mary 2"" started her first world cruise, circumnavigating the globe in 81 days. On 20 February, she met her fleet-mate, ""Queen Elizabeth 2"", also on her 2007 world cruise, in Sydney harbour. This is the first time two Cunard ""Queens"" had"
"late 2010. During a call at Sydney, ""Queen Victoria"" was illuminated in pink in support of Breast Cancer Research. On 9 December 2010 Cunard announced its first female captain, Faroese born Inger Klein Olsen, who would take command of ""Queen Victoria"" beginning on 15 December. January 2011: Two years after the first Cunard Royal Rendezvous, on the same date, met up with both ""Queen Victoria"" and for another Royal Rendezvous in New York City on 13 January 2011. Both the ""Queen Victoria"" and ""Queen Elizabeth"" made a tandem crossing of the Atlantic for the event. All three ships met in"
"elegant 1912 appearance under the auspices of the Nomadic Preservation Society along with the assistance of her original builders, Harland and Wolff. She is intended to serve as the centerpiece of a museum dedicated to the history of Atlantic steam, the White Star Line, and its most famous ship, the ""Titanic"". The historic ""Nomadic"" was opened ceremoniously to the public on 31 May 2013. Cunard Line itself has, since 1995, introduced White Star Service as the brand of services on their ships ""RMS Queen Mary 2"", ""MS Queen Victoria"" and the ""MS Queen Elizabeth"". The company has also created the"
"in 1897, which sparked off a battle between nations to create the largest most powerful liners such as the ""Kaiser"" and ""Olympic""-class ocean liners. The German competition necessitated the construction of replacements for the two Cunarders, which came to fruition in 1907 with the appearance of the and . With the appearance of a third Cunard giant in 1914, , ""Campania"" was no longer required. Her last planned voyage for Cunard was her 250th, and commenced on 25 April 1914. On her return to Liverpool, she was chartered to the Anchor Line to do voyages from Glasgow to New York."
"the old and the new ships would not be in Cunard service at the same time. Elizabeth II launched the ship on 20 September 1967 but surprised and delighted Smallpeice and the invited guests when she named the ship ""Queen Elizabeth the Second"". Smallpeice believed using the style Queen Elizabeth II wasn't entirely appropriate, it being the designation of the sovereign, and sought permission to use an Arabic 2 in place of Roman numerals. The shipping line operations of Cunard didn't escape review by Smallpeice. He was already familiar with the containerisation of freight prior to taking up his position"
"RMS Queen Mary 2 RMS ""Queen Mary 2 (also referred to as the QM2"") is a transatlantic ocean liner. She is the largest passenger ship built for the Cunard Line since ""Queen Elizabeth 2"" in 1969, the vessel she succeeded as flagship of the line. As of 2018, ""Queen Mary 2"" is the only passenger ship operating as an ocean liner. The new ship was named ""Queen Mary 2"" by Queen Elizabeth II in 2004 after the first of 1936. ""Queen Mary"" was in turn named after Mary of Teck, consort of King George V. With the retirement of ""Queen"
"Dunbartonshire. She was yard number 629 and was launched on 12 December 1946, with completion in August 1947. ""Media"" and her sister ship ""Parthia"" were the first ships built for Cunard after the conclusion of World War II, and were built for transatlantic service between Liverpool and New York City. ""Media""<nowiki>'</nowiki>s maiden voyage began on 20 August 1947 from Liverpool. She received a major refit in 1953, part of which was the introduction of stabilisers; ""Media"" was the first ship on the transatlantic route so equipped. She continued on the transatlantic trade through the late 1950s, by which time competition"
"Cunard Line by Carnival Corporation, in 1999 ""QE2"" was given a US$30 million refurbishment which included refreshing various public rooms, and a new colour palette in the passenger cabins. The Royal Promenade, which formerly housed upscale shops such as Burberry, H. Stern and Aquascutum, were replaced by boutiques typical of cruise ships, selling perfumes, watches and logo items. During this refit the hull was stripped to bare metal, and the ship repainted in the traditional Cunard colours of matte black (Federal Grey) with a white superstructure. On 29 August 2002, ""Queen Elizabeth 2"" became the first merchant ship to sail"
"2004 and the last major ocean liner built before the construction of ""Queen Mary 2"". ""Queen Mary 2"" had the Royal Mail Ship (RMS) title conferred on her by Royal Mail when the ship entered service in 2004 on the Southampton to New York route, as a gesture to Cunard's history. ""Queen Mary 2"" is not a steamship like many of her predecessors, but is powered primarily by four diesel engines, with two additional gas turbines used when extra power is required; this integrated electric propulsion configuration is used to produce the power to drive her four electric propulsion pods"
"RMS Queen Elizabeth The RMS ""Queen Elizabeth"" was an ocean liner operated by Cunard Line. With """" she provided weekly luxury liner service between Southampton in the United Kingdom and New York City in the United States, via Cherbourg in France. While being constructed in the mid-1930s by John Brown and Company at Clydebank, Scotland, the build was known as ""Hull 552"". Launched on 27 September 1938, she was named in honour of Queen Elizabeth, then Queen Consort to King George VI, who became the Queen Mother in 1952. With a design that improved upon that of """", ""Queen Elizabeth"""
"maiden voyage to the Canary Islands the following day. The Queen was also the sponsor of the now-retired ""Queen Elizabeth 2"" in 1967 and Cunard's current flagship, ""Queen Mary 2"", in 2004. The first master of ""Queen Elizabeth"" was Captain Christopher Wells. On Monday 4 October 2010 ""Queen Elizabeth"" was formally handed over to Cunard. She sailed on her maiden voyage from Southampton on Tuesday 12 October 2010, following a naming ceremony with the monarch on Monday 11 October 2010. At the end of October 2011 ""Queen Elizabeth"" and her fleet mates changed their registries to Hamilton, Bermuda, in order"
"Star. The merger took place on 10 May 1934, creating Cunard-White Star Limited.The merger was accomplished with Cunard owning about two-thirds of the capital. Due to the surplus tonnage of the new combined Cunard White Star fleet many of the older liners were sent to the scrapyard; these included the ex-Cunard liner ""Mauretania"" and the ex-White Star liners ""Olympic"" and ""Homeric"". In 1936 the ex-White Star ""Majestic"" was sold when Hull Number 534, now named ""Queen Mary"", replaced her in the express mail service. ""Queen Mary"" reached on her 1938 Blue Riband voyage. Cunard-White Star started construction on ""Queen Elizabeth"","
"is . While the hull of a cruise ship will typically have a block coefficient of 0.73 (1.0 would represent a rectangular block) ""Queen Mary 2"" is more fine-lined, with a block coefficient of 0.61. Cunard completed a design for a new class of , 2,000 passenger liners on 8 June 1998, but revised them upon comparing those specifications with Carnival Cruise Line's ""Destiny""-class cruise ships and Royal Caribbean International's ""Voyager"" class. In December 1998, Cunard released details of ""Project Queen Mary"", the project to develop a liner that would complement ""Queen Elizabeth 2"". Harland and Wolff of Northern Ireland,"
"ship until Cunard's famous greyhound ""Lusitania"" came into service the following year. She sailed on her maiden voyage to New York on 8 May 1907, and not long afterwards gained a considerable reputation for her interiors, enough for the British tabloid ""The Bystander"" to dub her 'The Liner Luxurious'. One of her most notable innovations was that she was the first liner to have an onboard Turkish Bath and swimming pool. As White Star gradually brought the 'Big Four' into service, they also attained several smaller 'intermediate' liners in preparation for a considerable expansion of their passenger services on the"
"what is now the Cunard Line. She made runs across the Atlantic between Southampton, Cherbourg and New York City in partnership with ""Queen Elizabeth"". The ""Queen Mary"" was used as a troop ship in the Second World War, carrying 16,082 people on one voyage. After the war she resumed Atlantic runs but these became loss making. She was withdrawn from service in 1967 and is now in Long Beach California as a hotel and tourist attraction. ""HMY Britannia"" is the former Royal Yacht of the British royal family, the 83rd such vessel since the restoration of King Charles II in"
"the role she had already experienced. After undertaking training in Copenhagen for DFDS Seaways, she had the intention that she would work in the industry for several years before starting a family. After obtaining her Master's Licence in 1994, she became interested in working in the cruise industry, joining Cunard Lines as a deck officer in 1997. Over the next 13 years, she worked her way up through the ranks. In 2010, she was named as the Captain of Cunard Lines' MS ""Queen Victoria"". This was the first time a woman had been made captain of a Cunard Lines vessel."
"California. Escorted by a flotilla of smaller ships, the two ""Queens"" exchanged a ""whistle salute"" which was heard throughout the city of Long Beach. ""Queen Mary 2"" met the other serving Cunard liners and ""Queen Elizabeth 2"" on 13 January 2008 near the Statue of Liberty in New York City harbour, with a celebratory fireworks display; ""Queen Elizabeth 2"" and ""Queen Victoria"" made a tandem crossing of the Atlantic for the meeting. This marked the first time three Cunard ""Queens"" have been present in the same location. Cunard stated this would be the last time these three ships would ever"
"first submarine . She was the first submarine built in the UK since HMS ""Vengeance"" (launched in 1998). ""Astute"" was launched on 8 June 2007 by HRH The Duchess of Cornwall, 43 months behind schedule. The launch attracted more than 10,000 spectators.<ref name=""BAE164/2007""></ref> Her builders BAE Systems described her as ""the largest and most able attack submarine that the Royal Navy has operated, with a performance to rival any in the world"". ""Astute"" left Barrow on 15 November 2009 and on 20 November 2009, arrived at her home port of HMNB Clyde at Faslane. On 16 February 2010 ""Astute"" left"
"Gun"", as a covert headquarters for MI6. Q's labs also are in the wreckage of this ship. RMS Queen Elizabeth The RMS ""Queen Elizabeth"" was an ocean liner operated by Cunard Line. With """" she provided weekly luxury liner service between Southampton in the United Kingdom and New York City in the United States, via Cherbourg in France. While being constructed in the mid-1930s by John Brown and Company at Clydebank, Scotland, the build was known as ""Hull 552"". Launched on 27 September 1938, she was named in honour of Queen Elizabeth, then Queen Consort to King George VI, who"
"On 13 August 2016 Queen Elizabeth made the 2,500th cruise ship call at Kiel, Germany. On 6 July 2017, during a cruise around the British Isles, ""Queen Elizabeth"" encountered the new Royal Navy aircraft carrier in the Moray Firth, during the warship's initial sea trials. 13 January 2011:<br> Two years after the first Cunard Royal Rendezvous, RMS ""Queen Mary 2"" met up with ""Queen Victoria"" and the then brand new ""Queen Elizabeth"" for another Royal Rendezvous in New York City. Both ""Queen Victoria"" and ""Queen Elizabeth"" made an Atlantic crossing in tandem for the event. All three Cunarders met in"
"Although the ship burns heavy fuel, it uses low-sulphur fuel in certain jurisdictions. MS Queen Victoria MS ""Queen Victoria (QV"") is a Vista-class cruise ship operated by the Cunard Line and is named after the British Monarch Queen Victoria. ""Queen Victoria"" is of the same basic design as other Vista-class cruise ships including ""Queen Elizabeth"". The external and internal designs are more in keeping with Cunard's style and at , and is the smallest of Cunard's ships in operation. ""Queen Victoria""s facilities include seven restaurants, thirteen bars, three swimming pools, a ballroom, and a theatre. Unlike many previous Cunard ships,"