By Isle of Wight Observer
If you’d like to savour the excitement of being part of the welcoming flotilla for Cunard’s impressive new cruise ship, there are still a few tickets available.
Alongside a fleet of other vessels, Solent Cruises’ Solent Cat will be welcoming the maiden arrival of the Queen Anne into her home port, Southampton, on Saturday, April 27, and will be following the new vessel up Southampton Water. Once there she will be making final preparations to welcome her first passengers who will be departing on May 3, on a 14-day cruise around the British Isles.
Cunard’s Queen Anne will be the 249th ship to sail under the Cunard flag, as she enters service later this month alongside Queen Mary II, Queen Victoria and Queen Elizabeth. She will be captained by Inger Klein Thorhauge, Cunard’s first female captain.
Carrying 3,000 passengers – more than any Cunard ship during its 184-year history – Queen Anne is the company’s first new ship for 14 years.
You can be a part of this historic event aboard the Solent Cat. Tickets are £20 per adult, and £8 per child, for the three-hour trip which will leave Thetis Wharf in Cowes at 8.30am on April 27. There will be a bar and toilet facilities on-board, with free parking in Cowes. Tickets available via iw.observer/queen-anne.
Mal Butler