Overview:
Few ships need as little introduction as QUEEN MARY 2. When she was introduced in 2004, she was the first new transatlantic ocean liner since QE2 in 1969, the first new Cunarder since Cunard Princess in 1976 and the largest, longest, widest, tallest and most expensive passenger ship ever built.
Today, QM2 has been sailing for over three years. Her tonnage has been slightly exceeded by Royal Caribbean's Freedom-class ships, but she's still longer, wider, taller, and more expensive and will remain first in all those categories until that company's newest class of ship, code-named Genesis debuts in 2009 (and even that will be the same height - just slightly longer and much wider; it remains to be seen whether Genesis will end up costing more than QM2).