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QUEEN ANNE MAKES HER DEBUT

CUNARDER

Cunard’s newest cruise ship, Queen Anne, made her maiden arrival at her home port of Southampton on 30 April. The 2,996-passenger ship was watched by hundreds of people occupying vantage points along the shores of the Solent and Southampton Water as she made her debut on the south coast, coming from the Fincantieri Marghera shipyard in Venice, where she had been formally handed over to Cunard on 19 April.

The impressive new ship, the company’s

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