Titanic vs Queen Mary 2

QM2 is the ship Titanic's designers would recognise instantly — a true North Atlantic liner — at three times the tonnage and seven knots faster in service. Ninety-two years separate the only two liners on this site.

The Queen Mary 2 is the longer of the two, at 345.03 m against 269.06 m — a difference of 75.97 m. She is also the wider ship, by 12.81 m of beam, so she is the bigger vessel on both hull dimensions.

Titanic was the largest ship in the world for ten months and has been the world's reference object for size ever since. Every modern giant gets compared to her; on this site, she is a bar on almost every chart. Queen Mary 2 is the last of a species: a genuine ocean liner, with the heavy hull, deep draft and near-30-knot speed to hold a schedule across the North Atlantic in winter. The silhouettes above are drawn at true relative scale from the sourced figures on each ship's page — same metres, same pixels, no artistic licence.

The two are measured in different units — one by volume or people, the other by cargo — which is why this site never ranks them on one board, and why the true-scale drawing above is the only honest single comparison.