The Royal Fleet: The 8 Passenger Ships Named by The Queen!

HM. Queen Elizabeth II named a lot of cruise ships and ocean liners in her years on the throne. She gave every ship the correct name - except one - the QE2! Keep watching to find out what went wrong! -- Learn more: http://www.chriscunard.com/ Ethical Merch: https://chrisframeofficial.teemill.com/ Read: https://www.chriscunard.com/chrisframe/ocean-liner-books/ -- Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II named a number of iconic cruise ships and ocean liners throughout her life. In this video we will look at some of the most famous. The Queen’s link with liner launches began in the 1930s when as a young princess she was present at the 1934 launch of RMS Queen Mary. Later that decade, she joined her mother at the 1938 launch of Cunard’s ocean liner RMS Queen Elizabeth. The ship was the largest liner ever built at the time, and was named by Queen Elizabeth, with both Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret in attendance. In 1947, the Queen - then Princess Elizabeth - launched Cunard’s Caronia at the John Brown shipyard in Clydebank. This October event was her last public engagement before her marriage to Prince Philip just over a month later. In 1954 Her Majesty launched the Shaw Saville liner Southern Cross. The Queen had been approached by the shipping line and actually selected the name Southern Cross. The following year, The Queen named the Empress of Britain. The Canadian Pacific liner went on to have a lengthy career, retiring as Peace Boat in 2008. Fast forward, and on 20 September 1967 Her Majesty launched the QE2. This major event was attended by large crowds but also televised across the UK. At the naming ceremony, the Queen famously ignored the envelope containing the new ship’s name and named the ship: Queen Elizabeth the Second. After a brief discussion with Buckingham Palace it was agreed to use the Arabic 2 for the Cunard ship helping distinguish the name of the ship as QE2! In 1995 P&O’s newly completed Oriana was named by The Queen on 6 April. The ceremony took place alongside in Southampton, and was a major media event, given the ship was then the largest cruise ship built for the UK market and P&Os first major new build cruise ship in a generation. Just shy of a decade later, in January 2004, The Queen named Queen Mary 2 at a major event in Southampton. At the time the QM2 was the worlds largest passenger ship, clocking in at 151,400 gross tons. Unlike the launch of QE2, QM2 was complete and already wearing her name - having been built in France and already accepted by Cunard. The Queen returned to Southampton in 2010 to name the new Cunard Queen Elizabeth. This 90,000 ton cruise ship was named in honour of the RMS Queen Elizabeth, with the ceremony taking place on 11 October 2010. Five years later the Queen christened her last major cruise ship when she named P&Os Britannia on 10 March 2015. This ceremony was also undertaken at Southampton, while the ship was alongside at Ocean Terminal. Her Majesty also named a number of other ships, including naval vessels such as the Royal Navy’s HMS Queen Elizabeth in 2014. -- Imagery Acknowledgements: Rob Henderson & Doug Cremer / Henderson & Cremer Collection Andrew Sassoli-Walker: https://solentphotographer.com/ Michael Gallager Collection Cunard Line P&O / Carnival: https://bit.ly/3Bhn2Ks Shaw Saville Southern Cross CC.0: https://bit.ly/3SuPaRt Thumbnail Acknowledgement The Queen Image - NASA (2007) Public Domain: https://bit.ly/3DCniGC 2022 Thumbnail: QM2, Oriana, Celebrity Edge, Britannia & Iona: Andrew Sassoli-Walker https://solentphotographer.com 2023 Thumbnail: Andrew Sassoli Walker Queen Mary: Colin Hargreaves. #thequeen #qm2 #qe2 #cruisenews #queenelizabeth #cruiseship #cunard #shipchristening #shiplaunch Chapters: 00:00 The Queen’s Passenger Ships 0:20 Cunard RMS Queen Mary 0:29 Cunard RMS Queen Elizabeth 0:43 Cunard RMS Caronia 0:57 Shaw Saville Southern Cross 1:09 Canadian Pacific Empress of Britain 1:23 The QE2 1:50 P&O’s second Oriana 2:07 Cunard’s Queen Mary 2 2:31 Cunard Queen Elizabeth cruise ship 2:45 P&O’s Britannia