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Queen Elizabeth outbound from Southampton on her maiden voyage, 2010 Queen Elizabeth in Tallinn, 2012. MS Queen Elizabeth (QE [2]) is a cruise ship of the Vista class operated by the Cunard Line. The design is modified compared to earlier ships of the same class, and slightly larger than Queen Victoria, at 92,000 GT.
Queen Elizabeth 2 was designed for the transatlantic service from her home port of Southampton, UK, to New York, United States. [5] She served as the flagship of the line from 1969 until 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.
Queen Elizabeth 2 of 1969 (70,300 GRT) at Trondheim, Norway, in 2008. In 1971, when the line was purchased by the conglomerate Trafalgar House, Cunard operated cargo and passenger ships, hotels and resorts. Its cargo fleet consisted of 42 ships in service, with 20 on order. The flagship of the passenger fleet was the two-year-old Queen ...
HMS Queen Elizabeth, July 2014. The Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carriers of the United Kingdom's Royal Navy consists of two vessels. The lead ship of her class, HMS Queen Elizabeth, was named on 4 July 2014 [15] in honour of Elizabeth I [16] and was commissioned on 7 December 2017. [2]
HMS Queen Elizabeth is the lead ship of the Queen Elizabeth class of aircraft carriers.Capable of carrying 60 aircraft including fixed wing, rotary wing and autonomous vehicles, [20] she is named in honour of the first HMS Queen Elizabeth, a World War I era super-dreadnought, which in turn was named after Queen Elizabeth I.
RMS Queen Elizabeth was an ocean liner operated by Cunard Line. Along with the Queen Mary , she provided a weekly transatlantic service between Southampton in the United Kingdom and New York City in the United States, via Cherbourg in France.
HMS Prince of Wales (R09) is the second Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carrier and the Fleet Flagship of the Royal Navy. Prince of Wales is not fitted with catapults and arrestor wires, and is instead designed to operate STOVL aircraft; the ship is currently planned to carry up to 48 F-35B Lightning II stealth multirole fighters and Merlin helicopters for airborne early warning and anti ...
Shaw Savill Line: 17 August 1954 [4] Harland & Wolff, Belfast: Scrapped 2003 *First merchant ship christened by Queen Elizabeth II RMS Empress of Britain: Canadian Pacific Line: 22 June 1955 [5] Fairfield Shipbuilding in Govan, Glasgow, Scotland: Scrapped 2008 Queen Elizabeth 2: Cunard Line: 20 September 1967 [6] John Brown and Company ...