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STEEL FOR SHIPBUILDING QUEEN MARY 2 eng.01_04.2714.dihd.fol.411 09.09.2004 6:31 Uhr Seite 2

21,000 TONNES OF HEAVY STEEL PLATE FOR THE WORLD’S LARGEST

She’s a legend even now – the Queen Mary 2, the world’s largest cruise ship, which was handed over to the British , subsidiary of the US cruise organizer Carnival, in December 2003. ’s major shipyard, Chantiers de l’Atlantique, of St. Nazaire, was thus able to fulfill the demanding time schedule for construction: twenty-three months, from January 16, 2002 to Decem- Photo : Marine ber 22, 2003, were needed for completion of this 150,000 t floating palace of luxuries. swim in a sea of luxury: tion that, with eight restau- A theatre, a cinema, a plane- rants and innumerable bars, tarium, a discotheque and a including the three-storey Swimming in luxury casino – there is no lack of „Britannia“, with seating for leisure opportunities. And, 1,340, care has also been tak- The Queen Mary 2 has been with tennis courts, a golf en to ensure the passengers’ sailing the Atlantic, crossing course, five swimming pools, bodily wellbeing. The pas- between Europe and North fitness rooms and both senger facilities are super- America, at 30 knots sauna and massage facilities, vised and organized by the (56 km/h) since the start of the sporting amenities are 1,300 man crew. 2004. Her 2,620 passengers also generous. Need we men-

Grade Quantity [t] Thickness [mm] LR-A/B/D 13,024 6 - 30 BV-A 104 10 - 18 LR-AH36 3,579 6 - 20 LR-AH36-TM 150 8 - 20 LR-DH36 1,680 14 & 23 LR-E 2,724 23 & 28

Delivery state: As-rolled, normalized, normalizing rolled, thermomechanically rolled Total deliveries from Dillinger Hütte GTS: 21,261 t eng.01_04.2714.dihd.fol.411 09.09.2004 6:31 Uhr Seite 3

Steel supplies: delivered on time to the ship- started on January 16, Reliability and performance yard. 2002.

Surveying the completed, Plate thicknesses of 6 to Assembly of the blocks start- 345 m long vessel, one would 30 mm with acceptance per- ed in July of that year, imme- scarcely guess that the hull formed in conformity with diately after the laying of the is composed of a virtual the Lloyd’s Register of Ship- . Following completion jigsaw puzzle of no less than ping specifications were of the fore and aft sections of 300,000 individual parts, used. They form the ship’s the ship and of the funnel, which were assembled in hull, the deck plates and the Queen Mary 2 was record time. the crossbeams. launched on March 21, 2003, ready for equipping in the The shipyard had to be able For aesthetic reasons, not shipyard’s fitting-out basin. to rely on its steel supplier if only tight delivery dates, but this demanding completion also an extremely high plate In this way, the principal schedule was to be met. For surface quality, was speci- challenge of this high-pres- this reason, a large propor- fied. Extra high-strength tige project was met: A con- tion of the heavy steel plate steel plates for certain struction time only half as for the hull was ordered from structural elements of the long as that of the last large Dillinger Hütte GTS. Some ship helped in optimizing Atlantic cruise ship built in 21,000 t, spread across a de- the vessel’s weight. St. Nazaire, the „France“. livery period of ten months, Dillinger Hütte GTS made were rolled for this project, a vital contribution to mainly at the GTS Industries Construction in record time the achievement of these rolling-mill operated in demanding targets. Dunkirk, northern France, Work on the 102 block seg- by Dillinger Hütte GTS, and ments which form the ship’s Photo : Alstom Marine eng.01_04.2714.dihd.fol.411 09.09.2004 6:31 Uhr Seite 4

The QUEEN MARY 2: Facts and figures

Builder: Chantiers de l’Atlantique (Alstom Marine) Owner: Cunard (GB) – Carnival group (USA) Length: 345 m Beam: 41 m Height: 72 m Number of passengers: 2,620 (max. 3,090) Crew: 1,253 Cabins: 1,310 (+ 700 for the crew) Speed: 30 knots Draft: 10 m Construction hours: 8 million hours Weight: 150,000 t Cost: $800 million Heavy plate deliveries: Dillinger Hütte GTS (Dunkirk)

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