The Queen Elizabeth 2, the 40-year-old ocean liner that has traveled more miles than any passenger vessel afloat today, will turn off its engines in 2008. After crossing the Atlantic more than 800 ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Now for a trivia quiz. In 2004, the dowager liner of the ocean, Queen Elizabeth 2, was dethroned by her ingenue sister, Queen Mary 2, which took over ...

Now that the supersonic Concorde is back in service, cruise passengers once again can experience Cunard Line’s staple combo, which pairs a QE2 trans-Atlantic crossing in one direction with a Concorde ...

Cunard’s new Queen Victoria cruise ship started out its first world tour sailing in tandem with the Queen Elizabeth 2, which is on its 26th and final trip around the globe. The two ships had a ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... ABOARD THE QE2 IN DUBAI — A long and elegant era ended with a bang Wednesday as the world’s last true ocean liner sailed into history, though not obscurity.

Claim: The ocean liner QE2 uses a gallon of fuel for every six inches she travels. Figures like those are difficult for many of us to appreciate in the abstract, so we often come up with shortcuts ...

Arguably the most famous passenger ship of the 20th century, the Queen Elizabeth 2 is set to begin its new life as a floating luxury hotel this week. The last of the Atlantic liners, the 70,000 ton ...

The Queen Elizabeth 2 is going the way of another former Cunard ship, the Queen Mary, by becoming a hotel. On Monday, Cunard Line said it sold the 40-year-old ship for $100 million to Dubai World, ...

Cunard Line will likely pull the Queen Elizabeth 2 from its traditional trans-Atlantic runs and possibly redeploy the storied cruise ship in the Pacific once the $780 million Queen Mary 2 is launched ...

Now that the Queen Elizabeth 2 is destined to become a tourism attraction in Dubai, Cunard has announced a set of farewell voyages for the grand dame before she retires in November 2008. A Farewell to ...

Celebrated cruise liner company Cunard is hoping to track down people depicted in photos from years gone by for a nostalgic photo exhibition to celebrate 185 years of ocean travel. To mark its ...