QUEEN MARY 2
Item no. 80626
GTIN 3279510806267
Scale 1:600
Parts 239
Packaging 100 x 665 x 335 mm
In May 1998, the directors of Carnival Cruises, the world‘s leading cruise line, asked the naval
architect Stephen Payne to think about the design of a giant transatlantic liner, with totally new
fittings, destined to replace the famous Queen Elizabeth 2 within the fleet of their subsidiary Cunard.
Very quickly, Stephen Payne, who had a passion for the great liners of the 1930s, defined the general
line of this exceptional ship, quite simply the largest liner in the world with its 345 metres long,
41 metres wide and 72 metres high (the equivalent of 23 floors). The architect takes the best
aspects of the past and translates them into the present: the breakwater on the foredeck is
inherited from the very elegant Normandy breakwater. The facade is very much inspired by
the staircase facade of the original Queen Mary. But the „steps“ have given way to a gentle slope.
The Queen Mary was equipped with open bridge wings: They are now being reused but closed to
better cope with the bad weather in the North Atlantic. QM2 borrowed its wheelhouse and the
general line of its chimney from Queen Elizabeth 2. However, the new Cunarder is indeed a 21st
century boat which combines the advantages of a cruise ship with those of a liner.
Price:49,99 €
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