In celebration of the cruise line’s 183rd birthday and in anticipation of the upcoming Queen Anne, Cunard Line has launched intricate, vintage-style cutaway paintings to present keen cruisers a close-up view of the ship and its choices, together with fashionable venues and onboard actions, from the very high deck to beneath the waterline.

Cutaway Queen Anne Paintings

Because the May 2024 debut of Queen Anne attracts nearer, Cunard Line is showcasing the brand new vessel in vintage-inspired cutaway paintings by Polish artist Dominik Bulka.

Not solely does the enjoyable and colourful picture exhibit the areas, venues, and actions of the brand new ship, but it surely additionally contains quirky references and trivia from the cruise line’s 183-year historical past and different ships within the Cunard fleet.

Standard and acquainted areas onboard Cunard ships are seen within the picture, together with the Grand Foyer and Golden Lion pub, together with the brand new Brilliant Lights Society present bar, the place friends will get pleasure from dwell leisure and unique performances with dramatic lighting. Procuring areas, meals storage, and even crew areas may also be seen within the detailed illustration.

Savvy friends can even acknowledge well-known options of Cunard ships, such because the red-coated bellhops that first started serving the road in 1930, and to at the present time supply a basic welcome to friends.

Well-known faces are even built-in into the whimsical paintings, corresponding to Elizabeth Taylor, Ed Sheeran, and Sir Winston Churchill – all of whom have sailed with Cunard through the years.

One of the well-known faces illustrated onboard is Captain Inger Klein Thorhauge, proven entrance and middle on the ship’s bridge. The primary-ever feminine captain for Cunard, she has served the road for greater than 25 years, together with as grasp of Queen Victoria and Queen Elizabeth, earlier than she is going to take the helm of Queen Anne.

One other well-known face is that of Jimmy, a hippopotamus Cunard Line transported from Naples to Chester Zoo in Cheshire, England in 1963. Whereas the illustration reveals Jimmy port facet on Deck 1, the well-known animal was really transported on the open deck with an awning over his cage and given common cool showers for consolation.

Glimpses all through the illustration additionally present totally different actions friends will be capable to get pleasure from onboard, corresponding to yoga lessons, poolside motion pictures, dwell music, snug sleep, effective eating, and a lot extra.

Can you discover the unicorn, bride, archer, tricycle, put up field, three of golf equipment, and skydiving bellhop hidden onboard?

Crusing Queen Anne

Whereas the 113,000-gross ton, Pinnacle-class Queen Anne received’t be QUITE as colourful because the whimsical illustration, the ship will supply friends wonderful experiences with signature Cunard service.

When she debuts in Might 2024, the ship will likely be largely homeported from Southampton, however can even supply a number of departures from Hamburg and Kiel in Germany, in addition to Civitavecchia (Rome) in Italy.

In January 2025, the ship will make her maiden transatlantic crossing to New York, and her grand inaugural tour can even take her to San Francisco, Sydney, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Dubai.

Onboard, friends will discover impeccable venues and options, together with the top-deck Mareel wellness studio with pure parts supporting inside peace and well-being. Steam rooms, a salt sauna, an ice room, thermal pool, and reflexology foot baths supply the last word in indulgent luxurious to vacationers.

For one more kind of indulgence, Queen Anne will supply devoted eating rooms for every lodging stage, with choices from effective eating to informal meals, decadent treats, and the road’s signature Afternoon Tea. Vegetarian and vegan choices can even be featured all through.

The ship can even function a number of swimming pools, the Sky Bar and Remark Deck, for impeccable views, ample deck area, and rather more.

Queen Anne can welcome as many as 3,000 passengers per crusing, and the ship is presently beneath building on the Fincantieri shipyard in Marghera, Italy.