The Queen Mary 2, the flagship of the British merchant fleet will mark her fifth anniversary with a voyage around the British Isles in October 2009. Departing from Southampton on 15th October she will call at ports with historic Cunard connections such as South Queensferry (Edinburgh), Greenock, Liverpool, Cobh and Cherbourg. Thousands are expected to turn out to greet her as she makes her maiden calls at Greenock, Liverpool and Cobh.
The Queen Mary 2 will berth at the Cobh Cruise Liner Terminal at lunchtime on Wednesday 21st October and will sail again at 6 pm that evening. Cunard Line President, Peter Shanks who will be traveling on the voyage will lay a wreath at the Lusitania Peace Memorial in Cobh Town Centre in memory of those who died when the trans-Atlantic liner was torpedoed off the Old Head of Kinsale in 1915. The Queen Mary was the largest Cruise Liner in the world when launched on 12 January 2004 and at 345m is 6 metres longer than Independence of the Seas.
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