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Home > Ocean Liners > QE2 > QE2 Facts

Here are some amazing QE2 Facts with which to amaze (bore) your friends!

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QE2 Factsheet - handed out during her 40th Anniversary tour of Britain in September 2007.  Some of the facts are out of date though - for instance she had travelled 5.6 Million miles by that time, rather than the paltry 5.3 million miles it says!
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For more information from a Cunard press release in April 2005, Click here.
  • Weight: 70,327 tonnes
  • passengers: 1,791
  • Lifts: 14
  • Length: 963ft/293.52 metres
  • Width: 105ft 2.5 ins/32.06 metres
  • Draught: 32ft 7.5 ins/9/94 metres
  • Decks: 13 (10 for passengers)
  • Deck Space: 4500 sq. metres
  • Crew: 1000
  • Cabins: 951
  • International Staff, British Officers.
  • 5 Five Star Restaurants
  • Eight Bars
  • Casino with 106 slot machines, 4 blackjack tables, 2 roulette tables, 2 caribbean stud poker table and more!
  • 3 Swimming Pools
  • Theatre/Cinema seating 500 
  • Kennels for 14 animals.
  • 6000 volume library
  • 12 patient fully-equipped hospital
  • Nursery for 20 children
  • Computer Centre with 12 Terminals
  • Shopping Arcade with 11 boutiques including Harrods!
  • Boardroom with 60 seats
  • Bank/Foreign Exchange
  • 2 On-Deck Jacuzzis
  • Golf Driving Range, Putting Green, Paddle & Table Tennis and Shuffleboard
  • Fully equipped fitness centre
  • Fully equipped health spa
  • 4 Dance Floors/Cabaret Venues - The Grand Lounge, The Queen's Room, The Theatre Bar and the Club Lido
  • Not to mention the synagogue, flower shop, laundrette, on-board photographers, doctor's surgery, television studio, hair and beauty salon, card room, video games room and teen centre, video library, helicopter landing pad, tour office, security and strongbox centre, multi-channel television system, nightclub and disco!
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