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Cunard's New Queens Grill Mary 2
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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

QM2 is five times longer than Cunard's first ship, Britannia (230 ft.)
QM2 is more than twice as long as the Washington Monument is tall (550 ft.)
QM2 is 147 feet longer than the Eiffel Tower is tall ( 984 ft.)
QM2 is more than 3 ½ times as long as Westminster Tower (Big Ben) is high (310 ft.)
QM2 is only 117 feet shorter than the Empire State Building is tall (1248 ft.)
QM2 is more than three times as long as St. Paul's Cathedral is tall (366 ft.)
QM2 is as long as 36 double-decker London buses (31 ½ ft. each)
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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