Queen Elizabeth 2 is a Ocean Liner Name after the Queen of England

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Queen Elizabeth 2, often referred to simply as QE2, is a retired British ocean liner converted into a floating hotel. Originally built for the Cunard Line, Queen Elizabeth 2 was operated by Cunard as both a transatlantic liner and a cruise ship from 1969 to 2008. She was then laid up until converted and since 18 April 2018 has been operating as a floating hotel in Dubai.[2]

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Queen Elizabeth 2 docked in Osaka in 2008
History
Name:
Queen Elizabeth 2
Owner:
1969–1998: Cunard Steamship Company Ltd
1998–2008: Carnival Corporation & plc
2008–present: Istithmar, Dubai
Operator:
1969–2008: Cunard Line
2018–present: PCFC Hotels
Port of registry:
1969–2008: United Kingdom Southampton, United Kingdom
2008–2018: Vanuatu Port Vila, Vanuatu
2018–present: United Arab Emirates Dubai, UAE
Route:
North Atlantic and cruising during Cunard service
Ordered:
1964
Builder:
John Brown and Company (Upper Clyde Shipbuilders), Clydebank, Scotland
Cost:
£29,091,000
Yard number:
736
Laid down:
5 July 1965
Launched:
20 September 1967 by Queen Elizabeth II
Christened:
1967 by Queen Elizabeth ll
Completed:
26 November 1968 (Sea trials commenced)
Maiden voyage:
2 May 1969
In service:
1969–2008
Out of service:
27 November 2008
Identification:
IMO number: 6725418
1968–2009: Callsign: GBTT, British ON 336703
2009–present: Callsign: YJVW6,MMSI number: 576059000
Status:
Floating hotel and museum at Mina Rashid, Dubai
General characteristics
Type:
Ocean Liner
Tonnage:
70,327 GT
Displacement:
49,738[1]
Length:
963 ft (293.5 m)
Beam:
105 ft (32.0 m)
Height:
171 ft (52.1 m)
Draft:
32 ft (9.8 m)
Decks:
10
Installed power:
9 × MAN B&W 9L58/64 (9 × 10,625 kW)
Propulsion:
Diesel-electric
Two GEC propulsion motors (2 × 44 MW)
Two five-bladed variable-pitch propellers
Speed:
34 knots (63 km/h; 39 mph) max
28.5 knots (52.8 km/h; 32.8 mph) service
20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph) astern.
Capacity:
1,777 passengers
1,892 (all berths) passengers
Crew:
1,040
Queen Elizabeth 2 was designed for the transatlantic service from her home port of Southampton, UK to New York, United States[3] and was named after the earlier Cunard liner RMS Queen Elizabeth. She served as the flagship of the line from 1969 until succeeded by the Queen Mary 2 in 2004. Queen Elizabeth 2 was designed in Cunard's offices in Liverpool and Southampton and built in Clydebank, Scotland. She was considered the last of the transatlantic ocean liners until Queen Mary 2 entered service.

Queen Elizabeth 2 was also the last oil-fired passenger steamship to cross the Atlantic in scheduled liner service until she was refitted with a modern diesel powerplant in 1986–87. She undertook regular world cruises during almost 40 years of service, and later operated predominantly as a cruise ship, sailing out of Southampton, England. Queen Elizabeth 2 had no running mate and never ran a year-round weekly transatlantic express service to New York. She did, however, continue the Cunard tradition of regular scheduled transatlantic crossings every year of her service life.

Queen Elizabeth 2 was retired from active Cunard service on 27 November 2008. She had been acquired by the private equity arm of Dubai World, which planned to begin conversion of the vessel to a 500-room floating hotel moored at the Palm Jumeirah, Dubai.[4][5] The 2008 financial crisis intervened, however, and the ship was laid up at Dubai Drydocks and later Mina Rashid.[6] Subsequent conversion plans were announced in 2012[7] and then again by the Oceanic Group in 2013,[8] but both plans stalled. In November 2015, Cruise Arabia & Africa quoted DP World chairman Ahmed Sultan Bin Sulayem as saying that QE2 would not be scrapped[9] and a Dubai-based construction company announced in March 2017 that it had been contracted to refurbish the ship.[10] The restored QE2 opened to visitors on 18 April 2018,[11] with a soft opening. The grand opening was set for October 2018.[12]

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