| 534 yard number The John Brown & Company shipyard number for the Queen Mary | 75,000 gallons The maximum quantity of oil carried in her tanks for the ships boilers | 81,237 gross tons The gross tonnage of the Queen Mary, after her 1947 post-war refit | 400,000 square feet The internal area of the Queen Mary irreparably gutted in Long Beach |
| 10 miles The distance over which the Queen Mary's forward whistles are audible | 118 feet The Queen Mary has the same width at 15 Routemaster buses | 3 funnels The Queen Mary had three elliptical funnels, painted in Cunard red and black | 3,450,000 dollars The purchase price of the Queen Mary from the City of Long Beach |
| 145 people The total number of people carried in each of her 24 lifeboat | 1,019½ feet The Queen Mary is the same length as 37 London Routemaster buses | 35 tonnes The weight of each of the Queen Mary's 4-bladed propellers | 3,792,227 miles The total number of nautical miles steamed during her career |
| 18 feet The height of each of the Queen Mary's two forward anchors | 2,139 passengers The total number of passenger berths on board the Queen Mary | 314 staterooms The surviving number of staterooms following her Long Beach conversion | 39 feet Her draught, the loaded depth from the waterline to the bottom of the keel |
| 990 feet The overall length of the Queen Mary's 145 tonne anchor chains | 145 tonnes The total weight of the Queen Mary's 990 feet long anchor chains | 2,112,000 passengers The total number of passengers carried during her career | 80,774 gross tons The gross tonnage of the Queen Mary at the start of her career |
| 24 lifeboats The total number of lifeboats installed aboard the Queen Mary | 10,000,000 rivets The total number of rivets used to hold the hull together | 160,000 horsepower The total horsepower from the Queen Mary's turbine engines | 720 feet The total length of the Queen Mary's promenade deck |
| 1 propeller The number of remaining in-situ propellers following her Long Beach conversion | 2,000 portholes The total number of portholes cut into the hull of the ship | 1 inch Some of the Queen Mary's hull plates were over 1 inch thick in places | 35,000 tonnes The weight of the Queen Mary's hull on launch date in September 1934 |
| 70 feet The height, from the Boat Deck, to the top of the forward funnel | 1,101 crew The total number of officers and crew aboard the Queen Mary | 1,196 feet The total length travelled during the Queen Mary's launch in September 1934 | 12 decks The total number of passenger and crew decks aboard the Queen Mary |