NEW SHIP PREVIEW


A return to Tradition,


Gary Buchanan applauds the aristocratic design style of the latest star in the Cunard


firmament, the all-new Queen Elizabeth


Cunard style M


ship is a paradigm of 21st 30 WORLD OF CRUISING I Winter 2010 / 2011


any observers cherish the belief that the golden age of sea travel reached its zenith during the 1950s and 60s when the RMS Queen Elizabeth and RMS Queen Mary conveyed the rich and famous across the North Atlantic in consummate style.


Then, in the late 60s, QE2 appeared, and, 40 years on, that potent symbol of


Britain’s hegemony arguably became the most famous Cunarder of all time. Now the third ship to bear the name Queen Elizabeth in Cunard’s 170-year history is gracing the world’s oceans. The company’s 148th


century design and flaunts her


aristocratic pedigree with bravura. Whilst her exterior perspective bears more than a passing resemblance with recent Holland America Line vessels (and the aesthetics of the ship’s stern have come in for criticism from maritime connois- seurs), her interiors are compelling and recall fin de siècle wistfulness. Built at the Fincantieri Shipyard in Monfalcone, Italy, at a cost of £365mil- lion, this 90,900-ton liner – the second largest Cunarder ever built – conveys 2,068 passengers, looked after by a crew of 1,005, fully 85 per cent of whom


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