In which year did the ocean liner the QE2 make her maiden voyage?
Passenger ship were ordered, until the Cunard liner "Queen Elizabeth" was finally dethroned from her 56-year reign as the largest passenger ship ever built (a dethronement that led to numerous further dethronements from the same position). Both the RMS ("QE2") (1969) and her successor as Cunard's flagship ("QM2"), which entered service in 2004, are of hybrid construction. Like transatlantic ocean liners, they are fast ships and strongly built to withstand the rigors of the North Atlantic in line voyage service, but both ships are also designed to operate as cruise ships, with the amenities expected in that trade. "QM2" was superseded by
Hikawa Maru-class ocean liner She sailed 73 times until August 1941. Her service was popular, and the cuisine was well-regarded, as NYK Line employed a chef trained in Europe. "Hie Maru" was completed on 31 July 1930. Her maiden voyage was 23 August 1930 from Kobe. "Heian Maru" was completed on 24 November 1930. Her maiden voyage was 18 December 1930 from Hong Kong. All of them were enlisted by the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) in October–November 1941. Hikawa Maru-class ocean liner The was a class of ocean liners of Japan, serving during the 1930s, and after World War II. In 1927-28, the NYK