- Gross Tonnage - 70,327 tons
- Dimensions - 293.53 x 32.06m (963 x 105.3ft)
- Number of funnels - 1
- Number of masts - 1
- Construction - Steel
- Propulsion - Twin screw
- Engines - Nine 9-cylinder medium speed turbo-charged diesels
- Service speed - 28.5 knots
- Builder - Upper Clyde Shipbuilders, Glasgow
- Launch date - 20 September 1967
- Passenger accommodation - 1,777
- Cunard's Queen Elizabeth 2 sailed out of Southampton December 12
after her biennial overhaul and refit at the A&P dry dock. One thousand
people worked to complete the refit work to specification and on
schedule
- Cunard has invested more than 10 times the building cost of QE2,
including a massive re-engineering in 1987 and a major interior redesign
in 1994, to ensure she will remain the most prestigious ship in the
world
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