Queen Elizabeth 2

At 70,327 gross tons, Queen Elizabeth 2 is the 6,590th largest of the 84,014 vessels in this registry that report a tonnage. The median across that set is 5,994 GT, so this hull is about 12 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 617 passenger vessels held here, it ranks 3rd by tonnage — larger than 100% of that group. Their median tonnage is 909 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 9,718 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Egypt (65 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Meyer Werft, with 16 hulls on record.

United Kingdom is the country of registry for 2,394 vessels in this directory, of which Queen Elizabeth 2 is the 122nd largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (1,835 ships), and the median vessel measures 2,515 GT. Browse every ship flagged United Kingdom.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 16 passenger vessels flying the United Kingdom flag, of which none is larger than Queen Elizabeth 2.

Queen Elizabeth 2 was built in 1969, making it 57 years old. It is one of 814 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 992 GT; within it this ship is the 12th largest. Across the whole of the 1960s the registry holds 4,074 vessels, median 844 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

The registry attributes 27 vessels to John Brown & Company, with a median tonnage of 21,370 GT, delivered between 1936 and 2013. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 293.5 m overall, Queen Elizabeth 2 is 232.5 m longer than the 61.0 m median for passenger vessels on record, with a beam of 32.0 m and a draft of 9.9 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 6725418 this registry holds 12 other vessels, whose median build year is 1967 and which range from 1962 to 1969. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1969.

Its IMO number, 6725418, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 6×7 + 7×6 + 2×5 + 5×4 + 4×3 + 1×2 = 128 — and the last digit of that total, 8, must equal the seventh digit, 8. It does, so this number is well formed.