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Cunard Luxury Cruises Europe
QM2
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Cunard Luxury Cruises Europe
QM2
Comparisons and Lineage
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Art On Board
Biggest
Passenger Ship Ever
Design Highlights
The Original Whistle
1-702-501-7105
Cunard's New Queen Mary 2
QM2 Home
QM2 Home
A SHIP OF SUPERLATIVE COMPARISONS
Length:
345 meters / 1132 feet
Beam:
40 meters / 135 feet
Beam at Bridge Wings:
45 meters / 147.5 feet
Draft:
10 meters / 32 feet ten inches
Height (Keel to Funnel):
72 meters / 237 feet
Gross Registered Tonnage:
Approximately 150,000 tons
Passengers:
2620
Crew:
1254
Top Speed:
Approximately 30 knots (34.5 mph)
Power:
157,000 horsepower, Environmentally friendly, gas turbine/diesel
electric plant
Propulsion:
Four pods of 20 MW each. 2 fixed and 2 azimuthing.
Strength:
Extra thick steel hull for strength and stability for Atlantic trade
Stabilizers:
Two sets
Cost:
Estimated 800 million dollars
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QM2 is five times longer than Cunard's first ship, Britannia (230 ft.)
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QM2 is more than twice as long as the Washington Monument is tall (550 ft.)
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QM2 is 147 feet longer than the Eiffel Tower is tall ( 984 ft.)
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QM2 is more than 3 ½ times as long as Westminster Tower (Big Ben) is high (310 ft.)
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QM2 is only 117 feet shorter than the Empire State Building is tall (1248 ft.)
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QM2 is more than three times as long as St. Paul's Cathedral is tall (366 ft.)
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QM2 is as long as 36 double-decker London buses (31 ½ ft. each)
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QM2's whistle will be audible for ten miles.
QM2 is being built in the Alstom Chantiers de L'Atlantique shipyard in Sainte-Nazaire, France. This is the same yard that built the France (now the Norway), Normandie, Ile de France and some of the other great liners of the past. At a total estimated cost of $800 million USD, she will also be the most expensive ship ever built. She is expected to enter service in January 2004.
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