A postcard from Wendy, who works on Cunard's flagship RMS Queen Mary 2. This postcard was sent recently while she was crossing the North Atlantic from Southampton to New York.
Thanks Wendy!
Queen Mary 2 was launched in 2003.
She has a length of 345m (1,132 feet) and a tonnage of 148,528 GRT. With a displacement of about 76,000 tonnes, she is the heaviest passenger ship in the world, eclipsing RCI's Freedom of the Seas, which although having a higher tonnage, only displaces 64,000 tonnes.
QM2 cruises at about 30 knots, making her the fastest ocean liner on the seas today.
She's too wide (41m / 135 feet) to pass through the Panama Canal, which means that during circumnavigations she must sail around Cape Horn, the southernmost tip of South America.
Source: Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Mary_2
Monday, May 4, 2009
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