Cunard | Queen Victoria celebrates Aquitania’s maiden voyage in Liverpool

A spectacular and rare two-day call by Queen Victoria at our ’spiritual home’ of Liverpool had a rousing send-off with an estimated crowd of twenty thousand people lining the Mersey to see her sail. Queen Victoria made the first overnight call at Liverpool by a Cunard ship in nearly 50 years over 30-31 May, to celebrate the 100th year to the day of the maiden voyage of Aquitania, acclaimed as the most striking four-funnelled liner ever constructed and known as the ’Ship Beautiful’, which sailed fr