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Queen Anne

launched

2023

tonnage

113,000

length

1,058

crew

1,225

capacity

2,996

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Bucket-list sights will never be far away on board the newest Cunard Queen as she sets sail on her first-ever world voyage. Queen Anne will be destined for more than 30 ports across five continents; prepare for a culinary awakening in Sri Lanka, and sunsets like nowhere else on earth in Hawaii. Photograph Sydney Opera House from every angle, and marvel at Hong Kong’s glittering skyline. This is world exploration, done the Cunard way.

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Unveiling Queen Anne – The Next In A Fine Line

When Queen Anne sets sail in early 2024, she will become the first new build for the iconic cruise line in more than 12 years. Her debut will also mark the first time Cunard have had four ships in simultaneous service since 1999, as she joins the ‘Three Queens’ Queen Elizabeth, Queen Mary 2 and Queen Victoria at sea.

Queen Anne will be the largest in the fleet, with 3,000 passengers set to sample the famous White Star Service on its sailings in destinations that are still to be revealed. Details of its design will be released in due course, but the cruise line has suggested that its new arrival will merge modern luxury with signature statement features that guests have come to know and love from Cunard.

An award-winning design team, led by globally-acclaimed Adam D. Tihany, has been enlisted to oversee the interior design on board Queen Anne. A travel industry icon at both land and sea , Tihany has worked on restaurants, resorts, hotels and ships across the globe. Some of his most notable projects include The Beverly Hills Hotel and the Belmond Hotel Cipriani.

What’s in a name?

Cunard is preparing to welcome Queen Anne to the finest fleet at sea in early 2024. The arrival of their 249th ship extends the cruise line to future generations and marks a celebration of Cunard’s rich heritage, royal history, and refined status. Queen Anne joins a luxury, contemporary fleet which now honours the names of each queen that has reigned over the last millennium.

Watch the latest video, where eminent historian and television presenter Professor Kate Williams explains why Queen Anne was the natural choice for the name of Cunard’s new ship.

Unveiling Queen Anne

Cunard have an exciting announcement surrounding their fourth ship coming next week. They’ll be revealing who has the honour of being named as Queen Anne’s first captain, as well as unveiling a little more about the ship and introducing some of the team behind Queen Anne’s journey so far.

Cunard’s new ship, Queen Anne, will be available to book from May 2022. Keep an eye on this page for all the latest updates.

Celebrating the keel laying of Queen Anne

The arrival of Cunard’s 249th ship, Queen Anne, marks a very special time. Cunard is excited to continue celebrating each and every step of her creation, the most recent of which is known as the Keel Laying. This significant moment in Queen Anne’s history happened on 8 September 2022, at the Fincantieri Marghera shipyard in Venice, Italy.

The historic day was attended by the Fincantieri shipyard team and Carnival leadership team, as well as selected journalists. The guest of honour was the Captain of Queen Anne, Inger Thorhauge. Steeped in tradition, the Keel Laying ceremony is designed to bring luck to a ship during its construction, and to her Captain and crew while she is in service.

The keel of a ship is its main structural element. It’s the backbone that runs from stem to stern, supporting the entire hull. The laying of the keel is in essence the formal recognition of the start of construction, and the ceremony heralds the completion of the intensive design and development stage. To mark the occasion and acknowledge the significance of old and new, a unique Queen Anne coin has been commissioned that now sits alongside an original coin from her namesake’s reign.
Together, these were embedded into the ship by her Captain, the esteemed Inger Thorhauge. As we all watch Queen Anne take shape, we are reminded of the Cunard journey so far.
A journey of more than historic 180 years. A ship inspired by their past and built for the future, Queen Anne represents a sense of excitement for what lies ahead.

Cunard’s first female captain – Captain Inger Klein Thorhauge

As the countdown to one of the most eagerly anticipated ships of the century edges closer, Cunard will be giving sneak peeks of Queen Anne’s progress… from the person who will know her best. Join Captain Inger, Cunard’s first female captain, as she prepares to take the helm of their 249th ship May 2024.

We’ll keep you posted with highlights from light on building milestones, signature installations and everything inbetween! Here from how Queen Anne’s build has entered a very important phase from the Captain herself…

Captain Inger’s Log

Packing up in my captain’s quarters on board Queen Elizabeth usually means looking forward to a spell of leave ashore. Not this time though! This is because I’ll be joining another ship in what promises to be a true voyage of discovery, a journey unlike any other I have completed in my 25 years with Cunard. And I am delighted to be able to share this exciting adventure with you all.

I’ll soon have a chance to board my (very) new ship Queen Anne, the latest in our fine line and the 249th ship to sail in Cunard colours. This newest Cunarder is being built at the Fincantieri shipyards in Italy, and I’ll be looking forward to spending lots of time at the Marghera site near Venice over the coming months.

It’s a rather special place to build cruise ships! Arriving at the yard by water taxi from the Grand Canal is an experience in itself. From there, I’ll be writing my Captain’s Log, giving readers a unique insight as Queen Anne is brought to life. The sprawling yard at Marghera is a place already steeped in Cunard history. It was here that my former command Queen Victoria was built and delivered to Cunard in 2007. Fincantieri also built my last ship, Queen Elizabeth (at the Monfalcone shipyard).

From a technical point of view, these sisters in the fleet are very similar. Each has evolved from the same “Vista” class of design pioneered by Fincantieri and our own shipbuilding team of experts. I remember vividly my first voyages on both ships. I was impressed by both the quality of their build as well as their seaworthiness and the very sophisticated kit at my disposal on the bridge.

Queen Anne is a “Pinnacle” class ship with a different hull design to her sisters, although again one from the Fincantieri drawing boards (or computer screens!), with a huge input from the new-build team at our parent company Carnival Corporation & plc. Modern shipbuilding is an immensely complex process requiring extraordinary expertise in both planning and production. A giant jigsaw doesn’t come close!

Each time I visit a shipyard and see a new vessel being built, I am amazed by the display of skill and technical prowess in so many essential disciplines.The Queen Anne project has now entered a very important and dramatic phase. Her hull is complete, and all the major plant and machinery is in place, deep inside the cavernous steel compartments assigned to house all the things required to operate a 113,000-tonne ship, designed to take guests on the voyages of their dreams. The team are in the process of installing her upper accommodation decks and fitting out the bridge – seeing my new office for the first time will be another memorable milestone to share with you.

I’ve spent a good deal of time poring over deck plans and looking at computer-generated visualisations of the public rooms on board my new ship. She already looks magnificent as you can see in this video. Walking into the Bright Lights Society lounge, and the Golden Lion pub is already a great experience. These are bare steel, covered in scaffolding and with a maze of cabling above my hard hat and below my safety boots, but, already, I can imagine how they will look during the coming months as our renowned designers bring their striking and beautiful concepts to life on board Queen Anne.

The first time I saw my new ship was a for a big milestone in her life in September. It was also a milestone for me as I was asked to don welding gear and secure a set of specially minted coins deep inside the ship’s keel. Cunard commissioned a special Queen Anne coin for the occasion, and this was paired in a sealed container with an original coin from the reign of Queen Anne herself. These will remain in their very special place, far, far beneath the bridge, for a very, very long time as Queen Anne crosses the world’s oceans. When the day dawns for Queen Anne to leave Venice and start her first voyage to Southampton, I have no doubt I will remind myself about those coins.

In the meantime, we’ll be creating all the other very special features which will make Queen Anne such a spectacular addition to the fleet. I’ll keep you posted along the way – and look forward to welcoming you on board my new ship in a little over a year. Believe me, it will be worth the wait!

Watch the Keel Laying unfold aboard Queen Anne

Stay tuned to find out more about the latest ship from Cunard!

If you would like more information on Cunard’s new cruise ship launching in 2024, please call us on 01246 819 819.

Introducing Queen Anne The Next In A Fine Line

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