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Towering over the quayside and still
cluttered with scaffolding, this is the third and biggest liner to bear
the name Queen Elizabeth.
The latest addition to the Cunard fleet took to the water for the first time yesterday.
But there's another nine months of fitting out before the Queen Elizabeth will sail on her maiden voyage from Southampton.
The £365million liner, seen at the
Fincanteri shipyard, near Trieste in Italy, is replacing the QE2 - but
she will not be referred to as the QE3. Instead it is hoped the new
ship will recall the 1930s opulence of the original Queen Elizabeth.
She will carry the same royal
standard that Queen Elizabeth, later the Queen Mother, presented when
she launched the original in 1938.
At 92,000 tons, the new ship is
20,000 bigger than the recently retired QE2 and 10,000 tons bigger than
the first Queen Elizabeth. Read more at www.dailymail.co.uk
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