Queen Mary 2 is longer than the Eiffel Towe is tall, as powerful as 3 Boeing 747s and in her lifetime will travel the equivalent of twelve times to the moon and back.
For over a century, as each new Cunard Atlantic liner has been unveiled, people hae described her as 'incomparable'. At the same time they have striven to express their feelings of awe and admiration by comparing her both with her predecessors and with land-based feats of art and engineering.