Glasgow And Ships Of The Clyde

QUEEN ANNE on a 14-days cruise leaves Greenock Ocean Terminal (Scotland, UK) for Liverpool

Queen Anne in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico on January 31, 2025
History
Bermuda
Name	Queen Anne
Namesake	Anne, Queen of Great Britain
Owner	Carnival Corporation & plc
Operator	Cunard Line
Port of registry	Hamilton,  Bermuda (2024-present)
Route	Various
Ordered	2017
Builder	Fincantieri Marghera Shipyard, Italy
Cost	US$600 million (approx.)[1]
Yard number	6274[2]
Laid down	5 October 2022
Launched	24 April 2023
Completed	3 May 2023
Maiden voyage	3 May 2024
In service	3 May 2024
Identification	Call sign: ZCHE5 IMO number: 9839399[2] MMSI number: 310835000
Status	In service
General characteristics
Class & type	Pinnacle series 4[2] cruise ship
Tonnage	113,000 GT
Length	322.51 m (1,058 ft 1 in)[2]
Beam	35.60 m (116 ft 10 in)[2]
Installed power	4 × Caterpillar-MaK 12V43C, each 16,896 hp (12,599 kW)[3]
Propulsion	2 × ABB Azipods[3]
Capacity	3,000 maximum passengers[2]

   It's said there are two certainties in life.   Death and taxes.

But there is a third certainty, solely for Greenock people.

   And that is : whenever a giant Cunard (actually it's Carnival Cruise Line .... but we will ignore that fact) cruise liner is leaving the cruise pontoon at Greenock Ocean Terminal the people of Greenock flock in their many thousands to the entire length of the magnificent Esplanade to watch the farewell.

   And this lovely calm and warm evening brought a vast crowd of spectators, all seemingly armed with mobile phones, cameras and even drones, to record the happy scene when QUEEN ANNE made her spectacular departure.

   The usual walkers and joggers normally have the wide footpath to themselves.   Not this evening.  Thousands of happy and excited people, too many to count adorned with camera tripods, as far as you could see.   Eyes glued to the water.  Waiting for the big event, for the show to begin.

And then, it's Showtime.

   Six p.m. and QUEEN ANNE let go her mooring ropes and slowly and stately left her berth.

   Many spectators were disappointed that she did not give a farewell blast on her horn, but such is life. 

  And others at a part of the Esplanade were more than a little upset. 

 A man on a jet ski, seemingly intent in showing off to the vast audience on the Esplanade, kept zooming and circling up and down noisely while the liner was passing and thereby destroyed many planned photographs and videos by obscuring the liner by the jet-ski waterspout and roaring of his engine.