Queen Elizabeth 2
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former ocean liner and cruise ship from the United Kingdom
Key facts
- Name
- Queen Elizabeth 2
- Namesake
- RMS Queen Elizabeth
- Owner
- 1969–1971: Cunard Steamship Company Ltd 1971–1998: Trafalgar House 1998–2008: Carnival Corporation & plc 2008 onwards: Istithmar World , Dubai
- Operator
- 1969–2008: Cunard Line 2008–2022: PCFC Hotels 2022–present: Accor
- Port of registry
- 1969–2008: Southampton , United Kingdom 2008–2018: Port Vila, Vanuatu 2018 onwards: Dubai, UAE
- Route
- North Atlantic & world cruising during Cunard service
- Builder
- John Brown and Company ( Upper Clyde Shipbuilders ), Clydebank , Scotland
- Cost
- £ 29,091,000
- Laid down
- 5 July 1965
- Launched
- 20 September 1967 by Queen Elizabeth II
- Completed
- 26 November 1968 (Sea trials commenced)
- Maiden voyage
- 2 May 1969
- In service
- 1969–2008
- Out of service
- 27 November 2008
- Identification
- IMO number : 6725418 1968–2009: Callsign: GBTT, British ON 336703 2009–present: Callsign: YJVW6, MMSI number : 576059000
- Status
- Floating hotel & museum at Mina Rashid, Dubai
- Tonnage
- (1968): 65,863 GRT , 37,218 NRT (1994): 70,327 GRT , 37,182 NRT
- Displacement
- 49,708 long tons (50,506 metric tons )
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- passenger vessel
- Named after
- RMS Queen Elizabeth
- Owned by
- Istithmar World
- Manufacturer
- John Brown & Company
- Conflict
- Falklands War
- Image
- RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 in Trondheim 2008.jpg
- Width
- 32.06
- Length
- 293.5
- Speed
- 32.5
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- yard number
- 736
- Commons category
- IMO 6725418
- Commons gallery
- Queen Elizabeth 2 (ship, 1969)
- service entry
- 1969-00-00
- draft
- 9.87
- call sign
- YJVW6
- gross tonnage
- 70327
- beam
- 32.03
- shipping port
- Southampton
- maximum capacity
- 1900
- country of registry
- United Kingdom
- location of creation
- John Brown & Company
- P12749
- entertainer
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Encyclopedic overview
Queen Elizabeth 2 (QE2) is a retired British ocean liner. Built by John Brown & Company on the River Clyde in Scotland for the Cunard Line, the ship was operated as a transatlantic liner and cruise ship from 1969 to 2008. She was laid up until converted into a floating hotel in Dubai.
Queen Elizabeth 2 plied the route from her home port of Southampton, United Kingdom, to New York, United States. She served as the flagship of the line from 1969 until she was succeeded by Queen Mary 2 in 2004. Queen Elizabeth 2 was designed in Cunard's offices in Liverpool and Southampton and built in Clydebank, Scotland. She was refitted with a modern diesel powerplant in 1986–87.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Queen Elizabeth 2” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.