Thread: The Cunard fleet of liners

RMS Queen Mary 2 Entered service 2004


Queen Victoria Entered service December 2007


Queen Elizabeth entered service October 2010

As I wrote earlier today, the QV can not be called a Liner.

Originally Posted by recab

As I wrote earlier today, the QV can not be called a Liner.

Sure it can!

An ocean liner is a ship designed to transport people from one seaport to another
along regular long-distance maritime routes according to a schedule.
Liners may also carry cargo, and may sometimes be used for
other purposes (e.g. for pleasure cruises or as troopships).

Shipping lines are companies engaged in shipping passengers and cargo,
often on established routes and schedules. Regular scheduled voyages
on a set route are called "line voyages"
and vessels (passenger or cargo) trading on these routes to a
timetable are called liners.

The alternative to liner trade is "tramping" whereby vessels are notified on an ad-hoc basis
as to the availabilityof a cargo to be transported.
(In older usage, liner also referred to ships of the line,
that is, line-of-battle ships, but that usage is now rare.)
The term "Ocean Liner" has come to be used interchangeably with "Passenger Liner",
although it can refer to a cargo liner or cargo-passenger liner.

The QV does not do any people transports from one seaport to another according to a schedule. She is only used for cruises.

Queen Victoria may not be a true liner, but she has a Cunarder

Originally Posted by Lanky Lad

Queen Victoria may not be a true liner, but she has a Cunarder

Agree and to quote a good friend of mine: "Even though she is not an ocean liner, she is a beautiful cruise ship bringing together the best of both worlds. Part Queen, part Princess, she brings modern-day cruising to Cunard."

According to one definition I recall seeing, the difference between a cruise ship and an ocean liner is the thickness of the hull. Ocean liner hulls are thicker since they primarily go over longer routes further away from land.

Queen Victoria, unlike most other Cunard Queens is not an ocean liner, it is a cruise ship which was originally supposed to be a Holland America Vista-Class ship, but the order was soon transferred to Cunard by Carnival. Click the link below to read more.


MS Queen Victoria - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Queen Victoria is a passenger ship that can sail the occasional transatlantic crossing between Southampton and New York a few times a year.Next year in 2009 she will cross the North Atlantic 3 times.A Westbound Crossing in January and twice in September of 2009 an Westbound and Eastbound Crossing that is part of a USA/Canada cruise/crossing that starts and ends in Southampton.Regards,Jerry

What a lovely photograph of the QE2 against the lush greenery. Thank you for sharing.

S x