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2. Queen Mary 2 - Wikipedia

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   Queen Mary 2 has a maximum speed of just over 30 knots (56 km/h; 35 mph) and a cruising speed of 26 knots (48 km/h; 30 mph), which is faster than a contemporary cruise ship. Instead of the common diesel-electric configuration, Queen Mary 2 uses integrated electric propulsion to achieve her top speed.

3. MS Queen Victoria - Wikipedia

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   [citation needed] On 9 May both Queen Elizabeth and Queen Victoria led in single file, Queen Mary 2 up the Southampton channel, with both ships docking in a bow to bow formation performing a birthday salute to Queen Mary 2. Later on, all three sisters gather for a fireworks display in which Queen Mary 2 led the vessels back down the channel. [29]

4. MS Freedom of the Seas - Wikipedia

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   Upon her completion in 2006, she became the largest passenger ship ever built, taking the record from Queen Mary 2 (QM2), an ocean liner. Freedom of the Seas is 2.4 metres (7 ft 10 in) narrower than QM2 at the waterline, 6 metres (19 ft 8 in) shorter, has 1.5 metres (4 ft 11 in) less draft, is 8.3 metres (27 ft 3 in) less tall and 8 knots (15 ...

5. Don’t forget a watch: 5 things to know about transatlantic ...

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   The Queen Mary 2, launched in 2004, was built to make long transoceanic voyages, allowing it to travel the world. In 2024, it steamed out of New York on Jan. 3 to Southampton in the United Kingdom.

6. RMS Queen Mary - Wikipedia

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   RMS Queen Mary [3] is a retired British ocean liner that operated primarily on the North Atlantic Ocean from 1936 to 1967 for the Cunard Line.Built by John Brown & Company in Clydebank, Scotland, she was subsequently joined by RMS Queen Elizabeth [4] in Cunard's two-ship weekly express service between Southampton, Cherbourg and New York.

7. Timeline of largest passenger ships - Wikipedia

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   RMS Queen Elizabeth's size record stood for the longest time at over 54 years. This is a timeline of the world's largest passenger ships based upon internal volume, initially measured by gross register tonnage and later by gross tonnage. This timeline reflects the largest extant passenger ship in the world at any given time.

8. Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge - Wikipedia

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   The flag was supposed to withstand wind speeds of 30 miles per hour (48 km/h), but it ripped apart three days later, when there was a wind speed of 16 mph (26 km/h). [138] The flag had been stuck against the bridge's suspender cables, so any slight wind would have caused the cables to make tears in the flag. [ 137 ]

9. HMS Curacoa (D41) - Wikipedia

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   On the morning of 2 October 1942, Curacoa rendezvoused north of Ireland with the ocean liner Queen Mary, which was carrying approximately 10,000 American troops of the 29th Infantry Division. [30] The liner was steaming an evasive " Zig-Zag Pattern No. 8" course at a speed of 28.5 knots (52.8 km/h; 32.8 mph), an overall rate of advance of 26.5 ...