Queen Mary 2 Passengers Arrive in Bar Harbor, Maine Oct. 28th, 2010

Bar Harbor —(By Jason Wimbiscus |Bar Harbor Times| Oct 28, 2010 ) On a foggy October morning Friday, the Mount Desert Island High School band played on the town dock for arriving passengers from the Queen Mary 2 cruise ship. The ocean liner was in Bar Harbor for the third time this year.

The Queen Mary 2's country of register is Great Britain. The ship is 1,132 feet long and 131 feet wide. Its draft is 32 feet. It carries 2,620 guests and 1,253 crew.

The Queen Mary 2 is the second-to-last ship of the season in Bar Harbor. The last ship, the Costa Atlantica, arrives in Bar Harbor Friday, Sept. 29. The Costa Atlantica is 960-feet long and carries 2,114 passengers and 920 crew.

Queen Mary 2 comparisons of note, according to the ship's website:

• Five times longer than Cunard's first ship, Britannia (230 feet)

• The ship is 113 feet longer than the original Queen Mary

• More than twice as long as the Washington Monument is tall (550 feet)

• The ship is 147 feet longer than the Eiffel Tower is tall (984 feet)

• More than 3½ times as long as Westminster's Tower (Big Ben) is high (310 feet)

• Only 117 feet shorter than the Empire State Building is tall (1,248 feet)

• More than three times as long as St. Paul's Cathedral is tall (366 feet)

• As long as 41 double-decker London buses (31-1/2 feet each)

• Queen Mary 2's whistle is audible for 10 miles

Category:

Travel & Events

Tags:

• Queen
• Mary
• Bar
• Harbor
• Maine
• Mount
• Desert
• Island
• High
• School
• Band
• Lady
• Marmalade