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