QUEEN VICTORIA floating out

On 15th january the Queen Victoria floated out for the first time in Fincantieri, Porto Margehra shipyards near Venice. The ship will start her cruise program in North sea from Southampton on 11th december 2007, all the first cruises are full.
The ship is currently registred in Nassau, but it seems to be temporary, when the ship will be delivred, she will be registred in Southampton, her future homeport indeed. I remind that the keel was laid on 19th may 2006, and few months later, the ship is floated out, so we can say that Fincantieri shipyards are very fast, and I think built ship such as the Qv becomes an habit, because before they have built the Noordam, the Arcadia, the Westerdam, as well as the Oosterdam and the Zuiderdam which are sisterships. I remind that the Queen Victoria was initially planned for 2005, but the hull was transferred to P&O and became the Arcadia. If we look photos, Arcadia and Queen Victoria are very close, the funnel particularly. After all they are sisterships. The first captain of the Queen Victoria will be Paul Wright (ex Qm 2 and QE2), Maureen Ryan, a long time serving hotess cut the cord to break the typical champagne bottle over the hull. The building of the Eurodam which will be delivred in 2008 has already begun, and on the other hand, we find the Carnival Freedom which should be delivred at the end of february, and she is expected to start her cruise program in March in Italy and in the Aegean.
Photos can be found here:
http://www.steve-read.co.uk/QV/
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