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} as of ) |Ship yard number=736 |Ship hull id= |Ship laid down=5 July 1965 |Ship launched=20 September 1967 by Queen Elizabeth II |Ship completed=26 November 1968 (Sea trials commenced) |Ship christened= |Ship acquired= |Ship maiden voyage=2 May 1969 |Ship in service= 1969–2008 |Ship out of service=27 November 2008 |Ship status=Laid up in Port Rashid since 4 June 2009 |Ship identification= * *1968–2009: Callsign: GBTT, British ON 336703 *2009–present: Callsign: YJVW6, }} |} ''Queen Elizabeth 2'', often referred to simply as ''QE2'', is an ocean liner built for the Cunard Line which was operated by Cunard as both a transatlantic liner and a cruise ship from 1969 to 2008. She was designed for the transatlantic service from her home port of Southampton, UK, to New York, and was named after the earlier Cunard liner . She served as the flagship of the line from 1969 until succeeded by in 2004. Designed in Cunard's then headquarters and regional offices in Liverpool and Southampton respectively, and built in Clydebank, Scotland, she was considered the last of the great transatlantic ocean liners until the construction of the Queen Mary 2 was announced. Before she was refitted with a diesel power plant in 1986/87, ''QE2'' was also the last oil-fired passenger steamship to cross the Atlantic in scheduled liner service. During almost forty years of service, ''Queen Elizabeth 2'' undertook regular world cruises and latterly operated predominantly as a cruise ship, sailing out of Southampton, England. ''QE2'' had no running mate and never ran a year-round weekly transatlantic express service to New York. ''QE2'' did, however, continue the Cunard tradition of regular scheduled transatlantic crossings every year of her service life. ''QE2'' was never designated RMS, or Royal Mail Ship, instead carrying the SS and later MV or MS prefixes in official documents.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=QE2 ''not'' RMS )〕 ''QE2'' retired from active Cunard service on 27 November 2008. She was acquired by Istithmar, the private equity arm of Dubai World, which planned to begin conversion of the vessel to a 500-room floating hotel moored at the Palm Jumeirah, Dubai. The 2008 financial crisis however intervened and the ship remained idle. In July 2012, Istithmar announced new conversion plans to enhance tourism in Dubai but these never came to fruition. In 2013 ''Oceanic Group'' announced that the ship would sail in October of that year to Asia for conversion into a luxury hotel. This project also stalled and as of 2015 the ship remains laid up in Dubai. ==Characteristics== The ship has a gross tonnage of 70,327 and is long. She had a top speed of with her original steam turbines; this was increased to when the vessel was re-engined with a diesel-electric powerplant.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=QE2 History )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=QE2's Major 1986–1987 re-engining refit )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Queen Elizabeth 2」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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