The Royal Navy’s Type 23 frigate HMS Northumberland will make a short visit to Liverpool Cruise Terminal, arriving on the evening of Friday November 2.
Although not open to the public on this occasion, a number of local Sea Cadet units will be lucky enough to enjoy pre-arranged tours of the ship before she leaves the city again at midday on Sunday.
Cunard Line have announced that two special events will be held in 2015 in their spiritual home of Liverpool in celebration of the company’s 175th anniversary. Cunard established the first scheduled service across the Atlantic in 1840 and every year since Cunard vessels have crossed and re-crossed the Atlantic without fail. Cunard will celebrate its historic anniversary in style with the first-ever three Queens meeting on the Mersey on 25 May 2015 and the Cunard flagship, Queen Mary 2, will sail from Liverpool on 4 July 2015 recreating the original voyage of Britannia from Liverpool to Halifax and Boston which set out on 4 July 1840.
In February, the Cruise Liner Terminal recruited 20 volunteers from Liverpool ONE’s City Stars programme to be ambassadors for the city whenever a ship berths.
LIVERPOOL has been named the UK’S best port of call by the world’s largest travel review website.
‘Cruise Critic’ – sister site of ‘Trip Advisor’ – named the city as their top pick based on the warm welcome visitors receive when they arrive in Liverpool, the historic architecture and the fact that so many attractions are within a half hour walk of the terminal.
The director of Carnival Cruises has praised the staff at Liverpool Cruise Terminal for their ‘heroic’ efforts in accommodating the Carnival Legend cruise liner on Sunday.
