Pictures that we think are worthy of front page news. Here is a selection of past pictures.

7 November – Cunard’s flagship Queen Mary 2 experiences a rare meeting in New York Harbour with HMS Queen Elizabeth

26 September – Crystal Cruises gives the world the first glimpse of its new Diamond Class ships

15 September – Majestic Princess ‘lands’ in Sydney

3 September – A Majestic sight in Singapore

10 August – Red arrows salute Queen after Queen after Queen

23 July – Now Scarlet Lady will take to the waves


24 January, 2018 – Celebrity’s new ship Celebrity Edge is coaxed in to open water at her float-out in Franc

21 October – Child’s play that has created one of the most amazing atriums at sea

4 October – How Princess Cruises launched its new luxury bed – which promises “the ultimate night of sleep at sea”
Turnaround Day, The Ultimate Pit Stop with Royal Caribbean

29 August – How Hapag-Lloyd’s new ice maidens Hanseatic Nature and Inspiration will look

10 July – HMS Queen Elizabeth and Cunard’s Queen Elizabeth meet off the coast of Scotland

13 June Le Soléal cuts a fine figure as she cruises through the vineyards of Bordeaux in April

April 2 Slow progress for Norwegian Joy at the start of her epic journey down the River Ems en route to China

7 March – Norwegian Joy being floated out at the Papenburg shipyard in Germany

7 November – Three of Royal Caribbean’s Oasis class giants in unique get together

31 October – New Norwegian Bliss to homeport in Seattle from summer 2018

11 October – Royal Princess has become the first ship in the Princess fleet to bear the new hull design

1 October – MSC Meraviglia is seen for the first time at its float out from dry dock in France

2 September – QM2 makes a wave with her first ever Transatlantic Fashion Week

July – Hollywood legend Francis Ford Coppola with his wife, Eleanor, on an eight-night transatlantic crossing on Queen Mary 2

11 May – AIDA Cruises welcomes new flagship AIDAprima to its fleet

21 April – The crew of Queen Elizabeth wish Her Majesty a happy 90th birthday

16 March – Ponant places order for four new expedition ships, and here’ what they’ll look like

26 February – Pioneer swimmer and ocean advocate Lewis Pugh will be joining two Hurtigruten voyages in 2016

9 February – Majestic Princess shows off her new livery in Monfalcone

27 January 2016 – Hapag-Lloyd Cruises’ CEO Karl Pojer shows off the company’s new branding

11 December – Cunard’s legendary Verandah Grill is making a comeback on the Queen Mary 2

18 August – Norwegian Escape is floated out of Meyer Werft’s covered building dock II in Papenburg

20 July – Crystal Esprit, the new kid on the Crystal Cruises block

5 July – Sparkling firework finale signals the end of Cunard’s 175th anniversary party

22 June – Quantum of the Seas becomes the biggest ever ship to berth in Hong Kong en route to Shanghai

24 April – Herb Christophers places a wreath during a moving Galipoli memorial service on the Queen Elizabeth on the eve of Anzac Day

11 March – The Queen names P&O Cruises’ new ship in Southampton

January 2015 – Queen Victoria, fresh from a three-week refit, sets sail to a fusillade of fireworks in Southampton at the start of her 103-night World Voyage

17 December – Aurora heads for home sporting P&O Cruises’ new livery

3 December – Robert Lloyd painting the Queen Mary 2 in the Grand Lobby on a transatlantic crossing

11 November – Quantum of the Seas arrives home for the first time at Cape Liberty Cruise Port in Bayonne

9 October – QM2 brings home ‘sacred soil’ from WWI cemeteries

3 September – Celebrity Cruises’ wine storage solution proves to be a towering success

7 August – Queen Victoria is the belle of the Cote d’Azur
Video: Cunard’s Queen Elizabeth’s facelift

3 June – Fireworks light up the Liverpool sky to celebrate Queen Victoria’s visit

9 May – Queen Mary 2 on her way into Southampton for her 10th birthday celebrations

28 April – Regal Princess during sea trials in preparation for her inaugural cruise

11 April – Queen Elizabeth makes her maiden call at Halong Bay in Vietnam during her Round the World voyage

2 April – Cruise Maritime Voyage lit up April Fool’s Day with a cracking story of Marco Polo passengers viewing the Northern Lights in Amsterdam

14 February – WAY TO GO – Dolphin gives QM2 a special escort in Oz

30 January – British Olympic diver Tom Daley takes to the high board on Allure of the Seas

17 January, 2014 – How P&O Cruises’ new ship Britannia will look with the Union Flag livery

20 December – Louis Cristal looks spectacular as she sails off Antilla on her inaugural Cuba cruise

18 November – Norwegian Getaway negotiates her way along the Ems River en route to Holland

6 November – Norwegian Getaway gets her first look at the world as she is floated out of Meyer Werft’s covered building in Papenburg, Germany

17 October – The Miami Dolphins Cheerleaders who will be christening the new Norwegian Gateway in February

10 October – The National Symphony Orchestra takes a bow on the Queen Mary 2 before performing on a transatlantic crossing

27 September – Canadian rower Mylène Paquette gives the Queen Mary 2 a wave after a mid-Atlantic rescue mission

6 September – New ship Costa Diadema shapes up at Fincantieri’s Marghera shipyard as the fore-end block is lowered into position

13 August – A brand new atrium is one of the major elements of Sun Princess’s major makeover in Singapore

2 July – Captain Inger Olsen takes in the view of Torshavn from the bridge of Queen Victoria

5 June – Norwegian Getaway during her recent initial floating at the Papenberg shipyard where she is being built

8 June – Royal Princess arrives in Southampton for her christening by the Duchess of Cambridge

17 May: Carnival UK’s David Dingle and P&O’s Carol Marlow beneath the newly laid keel of P&O Cruises’ biggest ever ship

1 May: Ellie Simmonds christens the Aqua Park on board Norwegian Cruise Line’s new ship Norwegian Breakaway

27 March: MSC Preziosa makes a sparkling entrance in Genoa

March 9: Cunard’s iconic Queen Mary and the new Queen Elizabeth meet for the first time in California

28 February – Norwegian Breakaway becomes the very first ship to emerge bow first from her covered dock at her float out in Papenburg

12 February – Legend of the Seas emerges from a month-long $50m drydock in Singapore with an array of new features

February 6 – The spectacular Vertigo waterslide on the soon-to-be christened MSC Preziosa

14 November 2012 – This is how the all-new water park Waterworks will look on Carnival Destiny when she emerges from her $155m transition as Carnival Sunshine in April 2013

17 October, 2012 – Fred Olsen’s Boudicca sets sail for the Med at the start of her winter season of sailings from Portsmouth

20 September – Celebrity Cruises’ new ship Celebrity Reflection makes an incredible journey – backwards – to the North Sea as she prepares for her maiden voyage on 12 October

September 5 – Norwegian Cruise Line unveils how its new ship Norwegian Breakaway will look, with signature hull artwork by America’s most popular living artist, Peter Max

August 16 – Celebrity Cruises releases an exclusive preview of the all-glass signature shower on Celebrity Reflection

July 14 – Cunard’s Queen Elizabeth, Queen Mary 2 and Queen Victoria leave Southampton in single file down the Solent

The entire fleet of P&O Cruises makes its way down the Solent at the end of the company’s 175th anniversary celebrations

July 5 – Ballet star Darcey Bussell looks every bit a P&O captain

June 28 – Sisters Queen Elizabeth and Queen Victoria side by side in Norway

June 2 – The Royal Caribbean ship Grandeur of the Seas emerges from her stem-to-stern refurbishment in Spain

May 27 – MSC Divina is christened in Marseille in elegant, and aerial acrobatic, style

May 11 – Making a wave … Cunard’s first wedding couple say “I do”

March 10 – The iconic Queen Mary 2 and the world’s most recognisable opera house in Sydney

February 12: This will be the stunning spectacle awaiting guests as they arrive on the new Royal Princess

February 8 – Cunard Commodore Christopher Rynd is dwarfed by the QM2’s funnel in this amazing photoshoot in Freemantle, Australia

February 7, 2012 – Les Gauguines, Paul Gauguin’s own troupe of Polynesian entertainers, welcome guests to Motu Mahana

January 28, 2012 – History made as Silver Explorer guests set foot on Elephant Island

January 14, 2012 – The new observation lounge on Swan Hellenic’s Minerva

December 29 – The RNLI’s Spirit of Fred Olsen lifeboat
December 19 – Video of the Week: P&O’s new-look Oriana after her major makeover

December 11 – The QM2’s mouthwatering Queens Grill Lounge

December 3, 2011 – the moment a Royal Navy vessel thwarted an attack by pirates on a Spanish fishing vessel

November 23, 2011 – Fred Olsen’s marketing chief Nigel Lingard, left, shares a joke with PSA director Bill Gibbons during his farewell reception

October 29, 2011 – Splendour of the Seas arrives in Cadiz for a fresh start

October 21, 2011 – Tight squeeze! Minerva passes through narrow Corinth Canal

September 14, 2011 – An artist’s impression of how Norwegian Cruise Line’s new Breakaway-class ships will look

September 7, 2011 – Silver Whisper and Silver Cloud sailing up the Solent towards Southampton

August 24, 2011 – Hebridean Princess passing under Tower Bridge on her visit to London

July, 2011: Silversea’s Silver Cloud sails under Tower Bridge as she leaves London on her northern European cruise ©seaviewcruises

June 21, 2011: Fireworks light up the night sky above Seabourn Quest at the naming ceremony

May 8, 2011: SeaDream I appears to be armed to the teeth as she sits alongside HMS Belfast in London ©seaviewcruises

May 22, 2011: Photographer Mike O’Dwyer captures P&O Cruises’ Adonia beneath a canopy of fireworks during her naming celebration

February 23, 2011: Queen Elizabeth and Queen Mary 2 in a unique double act in Sydney Harbour

February 4, 2011: Ahoy there, Little and Large, as QM2 and RMS St Helena cross paths

January 13, 2011: Fireworks as New York celebrates first meeting of three Cunard Queens









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