
The Queen Mary 2 is the superlative passenger liner With 150000 GRT she is the largest longest (345 m) tallest (at 72 m she is taller than the Statue of Liberty) & most magnificent ship ever built for the Cunard Line 2620 passengers can be accommodated on 14 stylish & luxuriously equipped passenger decks plus a crew of 1253 With her long elegant hull & powerful engines (max 29 knots) she was specially designed for transatlantic crossings from Europe (Southampton England) to North America (New York) in 6 days The Queen Mary 2 concept was created in May 1998 After a further two years in development in November 2000 the order was placed with a French shipyard & she was handed over to the Cunard Line on 22 December 2003 After wintering in the Caribbean in April 2004 the ship entered regular transatlantic service The Queen Mary 2 continues the tradition of North Atlantic travel thus perpetuating an era of ocean travel that was already claimed to have ended