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Three Queens, One Magnificent City
Queen Mary 2, Queen Elizabeth, and Queen Victoria return from their world cruises to Cunard’s historic home port.
Three Queens, one magnificent city. On Sunday, May 3, the Cunard fleet returned from their World Cruises. Queen Mary 2, Queen Elizabeth, and Queen Victoria gathered at Cunard’s home port of almost 100 years, with QM2 taking center stage in the celebration.
Maritime Field Note 01
The Shortest Bridge Between New York and Europe
Exactly 175 years earlier, Britannia left British waters bound for America. Since then, Queen Mary 2 has remained the only regularly scheduled ocean liner on the high seas making the transatlantic crossing — a route often described as the shortest bridge between New York and Europe.
Onboard Archive
Working aboard the QM2 was awesome.
Kennels at Sea
The QM2 allows dogs onboard.
Companion Passage
Ocean crossings with four-legged passengers.
Companion Story
Queen Mary 2 in Hamburg
The Hamburg anniversary gathering remains one of the clearest examples of the ship’s cultural pull — not merely a vessel arriving, but a city turning out to welcome an icon.
Hamburg Sailaway
A city sends the flagship back to open water.
This photograph captures the crowd’s enthusiastic response as the flagship sails down the Elbe River toward the North Sea.
This was the previous July in Hamburg, during the tenth anniversary of Queen Mary 2 in Germany.
Film Archive
QM2 in Hamburg
Heritage Archive
Vintage Cunard
The ship is more than transportation. It is a moving piece of history, carrying the Atlantic tradition forward one crossing at a time.
The Elixir
Three Queens. One Port. One Living Tradition.
Cunard’s history is not sealed in an archive. It still arrives under its own power, gathers a city at the waterfront, and sails back toward the horizon.