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Thanks. I'm pretty far off using 3200 NM then. I was using the figure quoted by ports.com.

Thanks, that does help confirm QA is unlikely to be in Southampton on April 27th. Figuring roughly 3200 NM from Venice to Southampton and 20 knots sailing speed, that works out to 6-2/3 days sailing time. If QA does depart Venice at noon on Wednesday, April 24th, then a rough estimate might be the morning of Wednesday, May 1st for her earliest possible arrival at Southampton. Will be standing by for further details as they become available concerning QA's voyage from Venice to Southampton.

Might that qualify as "Formal National Dress" for someone from Bermuda, I wonder? Now we really are getting into a deep dive of the dress code details aren't we? 🙂

Here's a link to the Cunard press release which has been posted now on the Carnival Corporation New Releases page, in case anyone wants to see the original press release at this point. https://www.carnivalcorp.com/news-releases/news-release-details/cunard-officially-welcomes-new-ship-queen-anne-ceremony

I certainly don't want to start any unfounded rumors, but there is a possibility QA's voyage to Southampton will be delayed a few days. Cunard have notified travel agents their previously scheduled "test" cruise on April 29th in Southampton has been canceled. There are also a few unconfirmed posts elsewhere on social media claiming QA won't be leaving Venice until April 22 or 23. No need for any alarm concerning the maiden voyage departing as scheduled on May 3, but her arrival in Southampton on April 27 might be in jeopardy. I'll be glad to be proven wrong about this by seeing QA depart soon. I will add the Southampton VTS Cruise Ship schedule still shows QA arriving on April 27.

Yes, indeed. The Italian Line has a long history. I'm sure our ocean liner experts can fill in some of the details, but a couple of the most notable pre-World War II Italian ocean liners were Rex and Conte di Savoia. Rex held the Blue Riband briefly. Unfortunately, neither of those ships, along with several others, made it through the war unscathed.

Interesting tidbit. When I ask Google Translate to translate "ocean liner" from English to Italian it comes up with "transatlantico".

Cruise Industry News has posted an article about the handover ceremony for Queen Anne. The article quotes a Cunard press release I can't find yet in either the Cunard News Room or on the Carnival Corporation New Releases page but that's not unusual. https://cruiseindustrynews.com/cruise-news/2024/04/cunard-officially-welcomes-queen-anne-with-ceremony-at-fincantieri-shipyard/

Thanks for that. Apparently it's only Cunard's website for North America that's missing Dakar from the QA 2025 world voyage itinerary. I see Dakar is indeed listed on the itinerary found on the Cunard UK website. Dakar is also listed on the Cunard Australia website when I pop over there.

I see Cunard have updated the QA 2025 world voyage itinerary on the Cunard website. The itinerary posted there varies slightly from what's been communicated via email. The online itinerary has QA in Durban on 7 April 2025 instead of Port Elizabeth on 8 April 2025 and it has QA in Tenerife instead of Las Palmas on 23 April 2025. The online itinerary also omits Dakar on 20 April 2025. I recall we had a discussion earlier about Dakar not showing up online on QA's 2026 world voyage itinerary. Perhaps the same thing is going on with Dakar on what's listed for QA's 2025 revised world voyage itinerary as well. There's still the discrepancies between Port Elizabeth on 8 April versus Durban on 7 April and Las Palmas versus Tenerife though. For those of you on the revised voyage, may I ask what are you seeing in My Cunard?

@Poole Boy, welcome to our game! Thank you very much for your contributions to add two more Cunard ports we hadn't seen yet on this thread. I believe there's one more port on your itinerary that's listed on our unseen ports list (unless it was canceled). It would be great to see a photo of Kiriwina if you happen to have one.

I can help with a photo showing QE at Tokyo to make it official. I'm posting this with the kind permission of Barbara O'Connor. She took this photo from the Grand Nikko Tokyo Daiba hotel on the morning of April 16th.

Oh, Zeebrugge is an inspired guess! I hadn't even thought to look there yet. The tower at the lower left looks like a good match to Sint-Donatianuskerk near the port. Having trouble working out an angle that also includes wind turbines but Zeebrugge certainly has plenty of those. I'll be very interested to learn if you've come up with the correct answer. Well done for a good workable hypothesis in any event.

Welcome to our game, @2BACRUISER! Always great to see new contributors to this thread. Thank you very much for your photos of Olbia, another Cunard port we hadn't seen on this thread until now. If you have any more photos of other ports on our "Cunard ports not seen yet" list, we would love to see them. We'd prefer for you post them without identifying the port right away so we can have a crack at figuring them out first. We like to make it a game to try to identify the port photos others post here. I identified the Sibenik photos from earlier today when I posted them only because they had already been posted on another thread so it wouldn't have been much of a challenge to identify them here. Thanks again for joining this amazing long-running game we have going here.

Here are photos showing Sibenik, Croatia @Solent Richard posted on another thread earlier today. He kindly took me up on my offer to post those photos here since Sibenik was on our unseen ports list. Thanks, @Solent Richard, for allowing us to add Sibenik as location #651 to our list of Cunard ports seen on this thread.