The Isle of Wight car ferry "Red Falcon" operated by Red Funnel passes the cruise liner "Queen Mary 2" in Southampton water.
The Isle of Wight car ferry passes the cruise liner Queen Mary 2 in Southampton on its way to East Cowes on the Isle of Wight. The ferry is operated by Red Funnel who in 2011 celebrated 150 years of operation on the Southampton - Isle of Wight route. The Queen Mary 2 was named by Queen Elizabeth II in 2004 after the first RMS Queen Mary, completed in 1936. Queen Mary was in turn named after Mary of Teck, consort of King George V. With the retirement of Queen Elizabeth 2 from active duty in 2008, Queen Mary 2 is currently the only transatlantic ocean liner in operation as a liner in scheduled service between Southampton and New York, although the ship is often used for cruising, including an annual world cruise. At the time of her construction in 2003 by Chantiers de l'Atlantique, Queen Mary 2 was the longest, widest and tallest passenger ship ever built, and with her 151,400 gross register tons (GRT), was also the largest. She no longer holds this distinction after the construction of Royal Caribbean International's 154,407 GT Freedom of the Seas in April 2006, which was in turn superseded by the same company's 225,282 GT Oasis of the Seas in October 2009. However, Queen Mary 2 remains the largest ocean liner (as opposed to cruise ship) ever built.
Size: 3872px × 2592px
Location: Hythe Pier, Hythe, Hampshire, England
Photo credit: © Trevor Boston / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
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Keywords: 2, boat, funnel, holiday, hythe, isle, mary, merchant, navy, ocean, queen, red, sea, ship, southampton, transport, travel, wight
