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Cunard – Queen Mary 2, the only vessel left with a scheduled transatlantic service to New York from Southampton. In addition, Southampton is a regular port of call for ships of other cruise companies, including: AIDA - German cruise line part of Carnival - fourteen ships; Azamara Cruises - four ships; Crystal Cruises – based in Los Angeles ...
Along with the Queen Mary, she provided a weekly transatlantic service between Southampton in the United Kingdom and New York City in the United States, via Cherbourg in France. Built by John Brown and Company at Clydebank, Scotland, as Hull 552, [5] she was launched on 27 September 1938 and named in honour of Queen Elizabeth, the wife of King ...
Built by John Brown & Company in Clydebank, Scotland, she was subsequently joined by RMS Queen Elizabeth [5] in Cunard's two-ship weekly express service between Southampton, Cherbourg and New York. These "Queens" were the British response to the express superliners built by German, Italian, and French companies in the late 1920s and early 1930s.
The unit was sent by "devious routes" by train to Jersey City where under cover of darkness they boarded a ferry crossing to the covered pier 86 in New York where a band played and the Red Cross served their last coffee and doughnuts as they boarded "N.Y. 40", the New York Port of Embarkation code designation for Aquitania, which got underway ...
[10] [11] Queen Mary 2 sails regular transatlantic crossings between Southampton and New York City, in addition to short cruises and an annual world voyage. [ 12 ] [ 13 ] She was designed by a team of British naval architects led by Stephen Payne , and was constructed in France by Chantiers de l'Atlantique .
In April 1961 she was moved permanently to the Liverpool—New York service, replacing MV Britannic. [3] At some point during her career with Cunard, Sylvania also served on the Rotterdam—Southampton—Le Havre—Québec—Montreal route [2] and winter crossings between Liverpool and Halifax via Greenock.
The brand-new RMS Caronia commenced her maiden voyage on 4 January 1949 between Southampton and New York. [5] Two more transatlantic crossings followed before the ship embarked on her first cruises from New York to the Caribbean. During her first years she spent most of the year on transatlantic crossings; only during the winter was she engaged ...
Queen Elizabeth 2 was designed for the transatlantic service from her home port of Southampton, UK, to New York, United States. [5] She served as the flagship of the line from 1969 until succeeded by Queen Mary 2 in 2004.