"Queen Victoria" undertook her maiden voyage, a 10-day cruise to northern Europe, on 11 December 2007. Following this and a cruise to the Canary Islands, "Queen Victoria" embarked on her first world cruise, circumnavigating the globe in 107 days. (The first ship to have previously done so—also named —took 1,153 days in 1519 to 1522.) The first leg of this voyage was a tandem crossing of the Atlantic with , to New York City, where the two ships met "Queen Mary 2" near the Statue of Liberty on 13 January 2008, with a celebratory fireworks display, marking the first time three Cunard "Queens" had been present in the same location. Cunard declared that this would also be the only time the three ships would ever meet, owing to the "QE2's" impending retirement from service in late 2008, though the ships did meet again in Southampton on 22 April 2008, resulting from a change in "Queen Elizabeth 2"s schedule.