Almost 1,000ft long she has taken her place alongside the Aurora and the Arcadia.

• PICTURED: Now there's a FOURTH cruise ship off Bournemouth (and this time it's Ventura)

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The Queen Victoria is operated by Cunard and has space for 2,061 guests and 981 crew.

All three ships are anchored off the Bournemouth coast as there is not enough room at Southampton.

The cruise industry has taken a battering throughout the coronavirus pandemic.

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Last week P&O Cruises – which operates the Aurora and the Arcadia – said: “Our home port of Southampton, unfortunately in the current climate, does not have berth availability for all our ships.

“We are consequently working with other UK ports and authorities to berth and anchor our ships with Arcadia and Aurora currently anchored off the coast of Bournemouth.”

Meanwhile, Carnival Corporation which owns both P&O Cruises and Cunard and is based in the USA has reportedly suffered losses of $4.4bn in three months.

Revenues are said to have plummeted from $4.8bn to $700m from for the same March-May period in 2019.

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It comes as bookings dried up due to the global health crisis.

P&O and Cunard announced they will pause operations until at least the autumn.

However, Carnival hopes some business will resume from late summer.

The group reportedly plans to sell six cruise ships, which are believed to cost between $500m and $1bn new, as it "seeks to adjust to an uncertain future".

As previously reported, Carnival plans a major wave of redundancies and sabbaticals.

It has not revealed how many jobs will go, but company president Josh Weinstein has referred to a “large number”. One source said staff had been told 450 jobs were at risk.

There will be a 20 per cent pay cut in pay and hours until November for staff who survive the cull.