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 About QE2 : General Information & QE2 Facts

  • Name: Queen Elizabeth 2.

  • Gross Tonnage (As built) : 67 129 tons.

  • Gross Tonnage (1994 - 2008) : 70 327 tons.

  • Decks : 12.

  • Length : 963 feet.

  • Width : 105 feet, 2 inches.

  • Builders : John Brown (later Upper Clyde).

  • Keel Laid : 5th July, 1965.

  • Launched : 20nd September, 1967

  • Launched By: HM Queen Elizabeth II

  • Maiden Voyage : May 2, 1969.

  • Maximum Passenger Capacity : 1,777 persons.

  • Standard Crew Capacity : 1,040 persons.

  • Port of Registry : Southampton, England.

  • Official Number: 336703

  • Signal Letters : G.B.T.T. 

  • Fleet Status : Flagship 1969 - 2005.

  • Fastest passenger ship currently in service.

 About QE2 : Engine Room Information

  • Diesel Engines: 9 x 9 Cylinder (Turbo-Charged) Diesel.

  • Diesel Builders: MAN B&W, Augsburg, West Germany.

  • Electric Motors: 2 x 350 tons, one on each propeller shaft.

  • Boilers: 9x Exhaust Gas. 2x Oil Fired.

  • Output at Propellers: 2 x 44 MW.

  • Propellers: 2x outward turning LIPS Controllable Pitch.

  • Bow thrusters: 2 stone kamewa, 1000 h.p. per unit.

  • Stabilizers: 4 Denny Brown.

  • Fuel consumption: 18.05 tons per hour on 9 diesels.

  • Rudder weight:  80 tons.

  • Forward Anchors : 2 at 12 1/2 tons.

  • Cables: 2 at 4" x 12 shackles.

  • Aft Anchor: 1 at 7 1/4 tons.

  • Cables: 1 at 3" x 8 shackles.

 About QE2 : Interesting QE2 Facts

  • Atlantic service speed of QE2 is 28.5 knots, with a top cruising speed of 32.5 knots; this makes QE2 the fastest passenger ship of the 21st century, however during cruising this is often reduced. 

  • Top recorded speed of QE2 was 34 knots during her 1987 sea trials.

  • Queen Elizabeth 2 was sold for $100 million to Dubai World.

  • Queen Elizabeth 2's launch was celebrated with a public holiday in all countries of the former British Empire.

  • Queen Elizabeth 2 was the longest serving flagship of the Cunard Line and the longest serving Cunard Ocean Liner.

  • Queen Elizabeth 2 has 20 lifeboats and 54 life rafts.

  • Queen Elizabeth 2 is the last Atlantic ocean liner to be built in the United Kingdom.

  • When QE2 retires, she will have made 806 trans-Atlantic crossings!

  • Queen Elizabeth 2 is one of the largest consumers of caviar in the world!

  • Queen Elizabeth 2's anchors weigh 12.5 tons each and there are three of them - 2 forward and 1 aft!

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