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Just curious can the QM2 be lengthen if required and if Cunard wanted to keep there tittle of the largest?.Its only a matter of time before her tonnage is beaten.Can she be expanded?Thanks linerdan
quote:Originally posted by lasuvidaboy:Her dimensions are huge already. Any ship that beats her out in the tonnage department will most like be shorter but have her superstructure pushed as far forward and aft as possible. Had QM2 been built more like a boxy cruise ship with an end to end superstructure, her tonnage could push 180,000 tons or more. Her engines seem to be positioned more amidships (like QE2) than most cruise ships which means she could not be cut in half with a new mid-section installed. A new section would have to go farther forward than her funnel. She is big enough and should have been built as a 90,000 tonner IMO.
It's possible ships are leghtned with there engines located midships. Even before 1900 ships where leghtned and thene they have a midship engine room. I think that the cutting would before the engine room.......
Leghtned the QM2 would be a dissaster she's a monster whene she was in Rotterdam last year she almost dwarf the pier there was no room anymore fore a smaller cruiseliner. To leghtned here made that she have less ports to visit. Certainly it would be more difficult to visit ports as Hamburg, Rotterdam etc. And thene as mantioned early by Ernst it would made here almost unpossible fore the New York piers. No leave here as she is and start to make here the ship Cunard prommis to be.
Here an picture i took whene she depart Rotterdam showing here huge size and leght.
4 pictures off QM2 on my siteNASM 1873 page: Cruise visit Rotterdam 2004.
Greatings Ben.
[ 04-27-2005: Message edited by: Maasdam ]
Lengthening QM2 would be Homer Simpson’s dream car, it would look cool but useless in the end.
Onno
An area where QM2 will still be supreme for a while is in displacement tonnage. Anyone got displacement figures for QM2, Freedom of the Seas, Voyager-class, etc., handy?
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quote:Originally posted by Chris Cunard:Bigger does NOT mean better! I doubt any RCI ship will ever be a better ship then QM2 - Cunard will market her (and QE2's) uniqueness when her title is taken.
[ 04-28-2005: Message edited by: Keitaro ]
There would have to be a need for it other than just to keep the "world's largest" title.
Such as not being able to handle all of the bookings.
quote:Originally posted by Onno:Imagine all the ports she had to leave or enter backwards. I think it would be technically possible, but in the end it will create more problems then that it would have benefits. Lengthening QM2 would be Homer Simpson’s dream car, it would look cool but useless in the end.Onno
well at her current length she still has to leave or enter backwards at alot of ports......wen QM2 comes to Barbados she berths on the breakwater(as that is the only area she can berth)bow in. So wen she departs shepushes off and reverses right out the harbour right out throught the channel and then turns 180 degrees and gets underway...........how ever she can turn around in our harbour as i saw on one occasion a particular night.......i was saying to my self....is that pilot crazy? thats was a risk he took but i suppose he know what he was doing.cruiseshipluver
quote:Originally posted by Gerry:The bottom line is. No. She will not be lengthened to keep the title. However, she will likely retain the title of longest even after the arrival of the next mega ships.
I agree. Apart from QM2 (1132 feet), how many passenger ships have surpassed the length of France/Norway? (1035 feet) Any?
Brian
quote:Brian_O wrote:I agree. Apart from QM2 (1132 feet), how many passenger ships have surpassed the length of France/Norway? (1035 feet) Any?
None yet. RCCL's Freedom of the Seas will be the first to surpass France/Norway when she debuts in June next year with her 1112 feet (LOA).
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