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Queen Elizabeth

Cunard · Cruise · In service · built by Fincantieri

Queen Elizabeth entered service in 2010 at around 90,901 GT, differing from her sister mainly in a straight stern that bought extra staterooms.

Length overall294 m
Beam32.3 m
Gross tonnage90,901 GT
Passengers2,081
Speed23.7 kn
Delivered2010
Our numbers

Derived metrics

Computed by ships.fyi from the core specification — see how we calculate these.

Passengers per metre#107 of 116
7.1 pax/m passengers (double occupancy) ÷ length overall
Length-to-beam ratio#10 of 142
9.10 length overall ÷ beam
Sense of scale

How big is it, really?

The Queen Elizabeth's length overall, against things you already know the size of.

Queen Elizabeth294 m
Eiffel Tower (height)330 m
Titanic269.06 m
Football pitch105 m
Boeing 747-876.3 m
Blue whale25 m
You (probably)1.75 m

The 747-8 held the longest-airliner record for over a decade, until Boeing's 777-9 took it by about 19 inches (76.72 m) — our sibling site aircraft.fyi measures everything that flies the same way.

One Queen Elizabeth = 1.09 Titanics · 2.8 football pitches · 12 blue whales · 3.9 Boeing 747-8s laid end to end.

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Specification

The numbers

Length overall≈294 m
Beam≈32.3 m
Gross tonnage≈90,901 GT
Passengers≈2,081 (2,547 max)
Crew≈1,005
Decks12 passenger decks
Speed≈23.7 kn
Entered serviceOctober 2010

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The story

What makes it different

Queen Elizabeth is the third Cunard ship to carry the name, following the 1938 liner and the 1969 Queen Elizabeth 2. She is also, by a small margin, the larger of the line's two Vista-class Queens.

The difference is at the back. Queen Victoria was built with a sloping cruise-ship stern; Queen Elizabeth got a squared transom, which allowed more staterooms aft and about 850 extra gross tons. It is a minor change that gives the two ships noticeably different profiles from astern.

Her hull is the Fincantieri Vista platform, one of the most widely shared designs afloat — Holland America runs four of them, P&O has Arcadia, Costa has Luminosa. Cunard's version is fitted out with panelled walls, a double-height Queens Room ballroom and a games deck with croquet, which is a very particular set of choices for a ship built to the same drawings as a mass-market Caribbean vessel.

The class

The Queen Elizabeth line

Vista class
Sister to Queen Victoria on the Fincantieri Vista platform — shared with Holland America's Zuiderdam group, P&O's Arcadia and Costa Luminosa.
The squared stern
Built with a straight transom rather than Queen Victoria's original sloping stern, which allowed additional staterooms aft and about 850 more gross tons.
Operators

Who operates the Queen Elizabeth

All 1 operator of record, verified 2026-07-15. Figures marked ≈ are approximate.

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Quick answers

Queen Elizabeth, asked and answered

How long is the Queen Elizabeth?
294 m (965 ft) length overall — the #109 longest of the 142 ships on ships.fyi, and 2.8 football pitches end to end.
How big is the Queen Elizabeth compared to the Titanic?
The Queen Elizabeth is 1.09× the Titanic's length — 294 m against her 269.06 m. By volume the gap is starker still: 90,901 GT against Titanic's 46,328 GRT — roughly 2.0 times the tonnage, measured across two different rule eras.
Who operates the Queen Elizabeth?
Cunard. Current status: in service.
Does the Queen Elizabeth fit through the Panama Canal?
Not the original locks — but yes through the 2016 Neopanamax locks: at 294 m by 32.3 m on a 7.9 m draft she clears the 366 × 51.25 × 15.2 m expanded gauge.
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