Queen Anne gets her FUNNEL! Cunard’s iconic funnel design explored.

Cunard’s new Queen Anne now has a Cunard funnel & due to the significance of the occasion was too important to ignore! — Chapters: 00:00 Let's have a chat about Cunard's Funnels! 00:33 Welcome Aboard 00:48 About Queen Anne 01:00 The last time Cunard had four ships 02:05 The Cunard Funnel Design 02:52 Diagram of the Cunard funnel 03:06 The Cunard Orange/Red colour 03:51 When Cunard abandoned its brand colours 04:24 Queen Anne 04:46 Outro — Known as the ‘funnel lift’, the construction milestone took place at the Fincantieri shipyard where the ship is being built. It is an important shipbuilding moment for the 183 year old shipping brand, given it is the addition of perhaps the most recognisable feature for the new ship! Queen Anne will be the 249th ship to sail under the Cunard flag, and when she enters service it will be the first time since 1999 that Cunard has had four ships in their fleet. The last time Cunard had a fleet of this size, the brand had just been acquired by Carnival Corp. The fleet consisted at that time of QE2, Vistafjord, Royal Viking Sun, Sea Goddess I and Sea Goddess II. Of Queen Anne’s new funnel, Cunard says that the… “…distinctive red and black funnels have adorned their ships for more than 150 years, becoming synonymous with the company’s rich seafaring heritage and reputation for luxury ocean travel…” The cruise line added in its media release that: “their (funnel) design is the brainchild of Robert Napier, the shipyard owner who built some of Cunard’s earliest ships.” Napier did design the funnels of the first purpose built Cunarders, but the current funnel shape takes inspiration from the QE2. QE2 was the first Cunarder to carry the iconic funnel design known and loved today, incorporating a black stack, a large wind scoop at the base and the red cowling. It is recreations of this design that is seen on the three current Queens, and the new Queen Anne. The striking red and black colour scheme was introduced during the early careers of the first four purpose built Cunarders: Britannia, Caledonia, Acadia and Columbia. The colour was created by applying a paint-like mixture (the recipe included buttermilk) to the funnels, which when heated turned a distinctive red/orange. The black bands were literally black expansion joints holding the original funnel segments together, while the black top of the original funnels was so painted to hide the dark soot-marks left by the original coal burning boilers. LEARN MORE at my Blog: https://bit.ly/3oJDq3z — 🚢 My Cunard History Website: https://www.chriscunard.com/ 📚 Buy my books: https://www.chrisframe.com.au/books 👕 Buy cruise merch: https://chrisframeofficial.Teemill.com/ 🎶 Listen to The Big Cruise Podcast: https://thebigcruisepodcast.com/ — Images: Cunard Asset Bank and Cunard Line, PEPR as noted. Vistafjord: CC BY SA 4.0, Peter J. Fitzpatrick license: https://bit.ly/3LuCvwQ Royal Viking Sun: CC BY SA 3.0, Jean-Pierre Bazard License: https://bit.ly/420SV5T Seabourn Goddess I: Ian Boyle, Simplon Post Cards: https://bit.ly/3LtLBu4 Royal Viking Sun no.2: CC BY SA 4.0 Germany, Gasch, Georg License: https://bit.ly/3L26ivH Caronia: CC BY SA 3.0 Renn Boot License: https://bit.ly/43TlhR4 Robert Napier, Public Domain (USA): https://bit.ly/3H88LUb Both QE2 images with white funnel: CC BY SA 3.0, Wolfgang Frick, Licenses: https://bit.ly/3oxlitK and https://bit.ly/40AFRmA Cunard Poster (Historic): Public Domain, Library of Congress: https://bit.ly/3L5Y5Xp **Thanks also to Alex Lucas for the great photos of QE2 sailing from Fremanle** // Arrow: Jesse Pinkman, CC BY Attribution, The Noun Project / Adobe. // Tags: #Cunard #queenanne #queenmary2 #qm2 #qe2 #cruisenews #cruiseship #cunardline #newship #shipbuilding #shipfunnel #designt