Ciekawostka: The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns

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Queen Elizabeth 2 (QE2) is a retired British ocean liner. Built by John Brown & Company on the River Clyde in Scotland for the Cunard Line, the ship was operated as a transatlantic liner and cruise ship from 1969 to 2008. She was laid up until converted into a floating hotel in Dubai. Queen Elizabeth 2 plied the route from her home port of Southampton, United Kingdom, to New York, United States. She served as the flagship of the line from 1969 until she was 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. She was refitted with a modern diesel powerplant in 1986–87. Queen Elizabeth 2 retired f…

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RMS Queen Mary 2 (QM2) is a British ocean liner which has been the flagship of Cunard since April 2004 and, as of 2026, remains the only ship built and used for service as an ocean liner still in active service. Queen Mary 2 sails regular transatlantic crossings between Southampton and New York City, in addition to short cruises and an annual world voyage. She was designed by a team of British naval architects led by Stephen Payne, and was constructed in France by Chantiers de l'Atlantique. At the time of her construction, Queen Mary 2 was the longest, at 1,131.99 ft (345.03 m), and largest, with a gross tonnage of 148,528 GT, passenger ship ever built. She no longer holds these records aft…

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Fall, Capt. Ernest Matson, (17 Feb. 1883–21 Sept. 1955), RNR retired; late commanding Cunard White Star Liner, Queen Elizabeth

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Cruise Report 86303 : Coastal Surveys in the Central Queen Elizabeth Islands (Dundas, Devon, Somerset, Cameron, and Lowther Islands, NWT). Twenty-five beach stations were examined during helicopter operations from CSS Hudson (cruise 86027) from August 25 to September 16, 1986. A 10-year comparison between 1976 and 1986 beach surveys indicated a net vertical degradation of less than 0.5 m at most of the 18 profiles resurveyed. Many of the profiles exhibited a partial rebuilding in the form of new swash ridges, but none of these new features exceeded the elevation of the 1976 storm ridges. The greatest changes were recorded at Cape Ricketts, Devon Island where as much as 11 m of recession occ…

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RMS Queen Mary is a former British ocean liner that operated primarily on the North Atlantic Ocean from 1936 to 1967 for the Cunard Line. It is currently a hotel, museum, and convention space in Long Beach, California, United States. It is on the US National Register of Historic Places and member of Historic Hotels of America, the official program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Built by John Brown & Company in Clydebank, Scotland, she was subsequently joined by RMS Queen Elizabeth in Cunard's two-ship weekly express service between Southampton, Cherbourg and New York. These "Queens" were the British response to the express superliners built by German, Italian, and French c…

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