3872 x 2592 px | 32,8 x 21,9 cm | 12,9 x 8,6 inches | 300dpi
Aufnahmedatum:
28. August 2012
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Queen Elizabeth is a Signature class cruise ship operated by the Cunard Line. She is the second largest ship to be constructed for Cunard, exceeded only by the QM2 and is running mate to the Queen Victoria, and the Queen Mary 2 The Elizabeth is a modified design from earlier Vista class vessels, she is slightly larger than Queen Victoria, at 92, 000 GT, largely due to a more vertical stern. Capable of carrying up to 2, 092 passengers, she is the second largest Cunard ship ever built, after RMS Queen Mary 2. The ship's name was announced by Cunard on 10 October 2007. The company now operates three vessels once more (since the retirement of QE2 in 2008. After manufacture 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 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. 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. Her maiden voyage included calls at the Spanish port of Vigo before heading for Lisbon, Cadiz, Gran Canaria, Tenerife, La Palma and Madeira. On the 29th June 2012, The ship made her one and only visit to Ny-Ålesund on the island of Spitzbergen, part of the Svalbard archepeligo. The previous scheduled visit in 2011 had to be aborted due to bad weather. She is not scheduled to visit Svalbard in her 2013 schedule. Newly introduced legislation relating to cruise ships visiting the archepeligo (applicable from 2014) mean that Queen Elizabeth will never be able to visit again.
