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The first pure ocean liner built in 35 years, the QM2 is three times the size of Titanic, which at 46,300 tons and 800 feet was called the 'largest movable object built by man' when launched in 1911. But it's a virtual rowboat next to the largest of all ships - a 564,700-ton supertanker built in 1979 as the Seawise Giant, and now called Jahre Viking.

In the realm of seagoing behemoths, the 151,400-ton QM2 is the world's biggest passenger ship in every way its closest rival is the 142,000-ton Voyager Of The Seas, in service since 1999 with Royal Caribbean Cruises. The Queen Mary was retired in 1967 and turned into a seaside tourist attraction in Long Beach, Calif. The Queen Mary 2 revives the name of the liner about half its size that debuted in New York on June 1, 1936. With the new ship replacing it on the Atlantic run, the QE2 will be used mainly for Southampton-based shorter cruises. Nearly four football fields long at 1,132 feet and 21 stories tall, the massive, black-hulled vessel left England last Friday for the six days and nights of luxury living and sumptuous dining for its 2,600 passengers, attended by a crew of 1,250.Īfter three days in port on Manhattan's West Side, the Queen Mary 2 will depart on Sunday night, rendezvousing near the Statue of Liberty with the Queen Elizabeth 2, outbound on its final trans-Atlantic run.

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