Article: Alcore Brigantine Products aboard Queen Mary 2 Luxury Liner.

January 8, 2003 - Queen Elizabeth II officially christened the state-of-the-art Cunard Line's Queen Mary II in a ceremony today at Southampton, England. The new QM2 is 342 meters (1,138 feet) long and 71 meters (238 feet) high - as tall as a 21-story building. QM2 was built at the Chantiers de l'Atlantique shipyard in Saint-Nazaire, France, the birthplace of such famous liners as Normandie, France, and Ile de France.

At 150,000 tons, QM2 is the biggest passenger vessel the world has ever seen and is praised as a return to the golden age of transatlantic voyages, a bygone era. While this 2,620-passenger ocean liner evokes a feeling of grandeur, it also projects ...

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