History | |
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Name | Queen Anne |
Namesake | Anne, Queen of Great Britain |
Owner | Carnival Corporation & plc |
Operator | Cunard Line |
Ordered | 2017 |
Builder | Fincantieri Marghera Shipyard, Italy |
Cost | US$600 million (approx.) [1] |
Yard number | 6274 [2] |
Laid down | 29 April 2022 |
Launched | 3 May 2023 |
Completed | 3 May 2023 |
Maiden voyage | May 2024 |
In service | May 2024 |
Identification | IMO number: 9839399 [2] |
Status | Under construction |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Pinnacle series 4 [2] cruise ship |
Tonnage | 113,000 GT |
Length | 322.51 m (1,058.1 ft) [2] |
Beam | 35.60 m (116.8 ft) [2] |
Installed power | 4 x Caterpillar-MaK 12V43C, each 16,896 hp (12,600 kW) [3] |
Propulsion | 2 x ABB Azipods [3] |
Capacity | 3,000 maximum passengers [2] |
MS Queen Anne is a cruise ship currently under construction for Cunard Line.
In 2017, Cunard announced the order of fourth ship in their current fleet [4] and the 249th ship in its history. [5] It was initially announced that the new vessel will be based on the MS Koningsdam, Holland America Line's Pinnacle-class ship. [6] With a gross tonnage of 113,000, the ship will carry up to 3,000 passengers. [7] The delivery was originally planned for 2022. [4] but later the maiden voyage was postponed to January 2024. [8] Later, this was pushed back again, to May 2024. [8]
In June 2019 Cunard announced the design team for the public spaces. [9] Steel cutting began at Fincantieri’s Castellammare di Stabia shipyard on 11 October 2019. [10] Forward stub transferred to Marghera August 2022 for completion. Another major milestone was reached on 3 May 2023, as the structurally complete ship was floated out of the construction dry dock for the first time. [11]
Media agencies initially speculated whether the ship's name would continue with Cunard's practice of naming them after queens [12] or return to its long-standing convention of giving their vessels names ending in -'ia' like past Cunard ships RMS Aquitania, RMS Berengaria, RMS Caronia and RMS Mauretania. [13] In February 2022, Cunard announced that the ship would be named Queen Anne. [14] The ship's maiden voyage is scheduled for 3 May 2024. [15]
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