According to the Daily Mail the container ship Marco Polo is a staggering 51 times longer than the QM2. Taken that the QM2 is over a 1,100 ft long how long (answers in miles!) is the Marco Polo?
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The bigger question is
How long until the Daily Fail reports that it's been flooded by immigrants?
I might be dyslexic
but it definately says 51 times longer... so that'll be 10.93 miles long then
some of the comments are priceless
"Hurrah, at last a ship the size of Wales. Its engine is bigger than eighteen million sausages or four hundred London buses, and on a good day you can wrap it round the Isle of Wight with a bit left over."
At the risk of pi__ing off my fellow AWEBers
if you read the Daily Mail what do you expect?!
Expect?
if you read the Daily Mail what do you expect?!
A bloody good laugh, that's what.
edit to correct grammar missed by pedant
Expect? the whole truth.
It may be technically incorrect:
Vessel is 51 times longer than superliner Queen Mary 2
but that doesn't detract from the fact that it gets worse:
Even Cunard's flagship, the mighty 151,000-ton Queen Mary 2, a familiar sight in Southampton, would be dwarfed by the giant container ship.
This didn't transfer. "Dwarfed" it isn't!
What?
It may be technically incorrect:
Vessel is 51 times longer than superliner Queen Mary 2
but that doesn't detract from the fact that it gets worse:Even Cunard's flagship, the mighty 151,000-ton Queen Mary 2, a familiar sight in Southampton, would be dwarfed by the giant container ship.
are we missing some " " and [sic]'s here ?
Otherwise, I'm totally lost