Southampton Registry

[JohnEZ]

I was recently reading over http://www.cunardguidelines.com for whatever reason--it's their marketing site. Anyway, I stumbled across a sentence in their disclaimer:

 

"The Cunard fleet is currently registered in Great Britain." (http://www.cunardguidelines.com/general/acronyms.asp?pnav=general&snav=acronyms)

 

I know it may not seem like a big deal, but it worries me a bit that they note it's currently registered in Great Britain. To me, there's no need to include a "currently"--unless they think of changing that. Which, of course, worries me a bit.

 

Am I reading too much into this, or is this a distinct possibility?

[dougnewmanatsea]

Am I reading too much into this

Yes.

 

The "currently" is just verbosity on the part of the marketing types, who often thing that the longer something is, the better it sounds ;) .

 

If anything it may refer to the fact that up until Carnival came in, only QE2 was British-registered, and the other Cunard ships were flagged out to the Bahamas.