The Queen Mary 2 in a new look

They still exist,

The legendary ships with the illustrious names and the "once-in-a-lifetime routes": one of them is Cunard's Queen Mary 2, which entered service in 2004 and has mostly sailed between Southampton and New York ever since. Now the last classic transatlantic liner has been given a gentle facelift - as well as a few additional cabins and more space on the dog deck.

Reason enough for us to not only show you some beautiful pictures, but also to compile some of the perhaps least important but most interesting figures about the "Queen of the Seas". We admit that we were not only dreaming, but also amazed ...

Number of bathrooms on board: 2,000. Kilometers of cable laid: 2,500 (which would stretch from the home port of Southampton to Moscow or Greenland). Number of telephones: 3,000. Most expensive bottle of wine in the ship's belly: $ 4,500. Number of fire alarms: 5,000. Number of loudspeakers: 8,800. Champagne consumption in transatlantic service since commissioning: 481,000. Hull weight: 500,000 tons (equivalent to the weight of 330 blue whales). Passengers carried safely across the Atlantic: approx. 520,000. Nautical miles covered: 600,000. Annual tea consumption: fills a pool of Olympic proportions ...
www.cunard.de



Text: Jörg Bertram