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World's Largest Passenger Ship Christened
AP via Breitbart ^
| JANET FRANKSTON
Posted on 05/13/2006 9:33:55 PM PDT by summer
The world's largest cruise ship -- Freedom of the Seas,
which arrived this week in New York Harbor from Southampton, Britain
Wielding a scissors, a woman who helped raise more than 400 foster children over 27 years snipped a ribbon to christen the world's largest cruise ship Friday while it docked near the Statue of Liberty.
"I name this ship the 'Freedom of the Sea.' May God bless her, Royal Caribbean and all who sail upon her," 56-year-old Katherine Louise Calder said in the ceremony televised live on NBC's "Today."
She then cut the ribbon to release a giant bottle containing the equivalent of 34 bottles of champagne.
...Built by Norwegian shipbuilder Aker Yards ASA, the ship cost $800 million and can carry more than 4,000 passengers. The world's previous largest ship, the Queen Mary 2, can carry about 3,000 people and is 151,400 gross registered tons...
...A three-level dining room seats 2,140. There are more than 2,000 deck chairs and an ice-skating rink. The fitness center measures 9,700 square feet and includes a boxing ring. The spa provides luxuries from teeth whitening to massages and a 13th-floor deck offers a rock climbing wall and a big wave pool with simulated surfing.
Royal Caribbean's newest liner will be docked in New York Harbor and Cape Liberty in Bayonne over the next few days...
...but it won't have paying passengers until it leaves from Miami for the western Caribbean next month...
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: boat; christening; cruiseship; fl; freedom; ny
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What a great day to be alive, to see this...
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posted on
05/13/2006 9:33:58 PM PDT
by
summer
To: MinuteGal
Now, Leni, if you book FR's next cruise on this ship, I PROMISE I will finally show up. :)
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posted on
05/13/2006 9:34:30 PM PDT
by
summer
To: MinuteGal
However, I must admit, I would like to also invite my favorite Dem site, because I think they are finally catching up to me -- as evidenced by this headline I saw tonight on their site:
Jeb Bush is "unbelievably brilliant man," say Republicans heartbroken by the looming end of his rule in Florida 5/14
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posted on
05/13/2006 9:36:25 PM PDT
by
summer
To: MinuteGal
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posted on
05/13/2006 9:37:50 PM PDT
by
summer
To: MinuteGal; All
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posted on
05/13/2006 9:38:32 PM PDT
by
summer
To: summer
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posted on
05/13/2006 9:39:15 PM PDT
by
Gideon7
To: summer
It was christened the same day 'Poseidon' came out.
To: Gideon7
Well, it's not a submarine!
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posted on
05/13/2006 9:41:43 PM PDT
by
summer
To: LdSentinal
It's a great article -- read it all if you have a chance.
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posted on
05/13/2006 9:42:06 PM PDT
by
summer
To: summer
Well, hopefully the global warming will take care of the icebergs. ;)
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posted on
05/13/2006 9:44:53 PM PDT
by
Alexander Rubin
(Octavius - You make my heart glad building thus, as if Rome is to be eternal.)
To: Gideon7
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posted on
05/13/2006 9:45:57 PM PDT
by
Westlander
(Unleash the Neutron Bomb)
To: summer; All
"Well, it's not a submarine! Gosh summer, when I read your post, all of the sudden an image popped into my head of a couple of "mudlum" individuals crusing in a small rubber raft towards this "new" boat...
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posted on
05/13/2006 9:54:03 PM PDT
by
musicman
To: summer
Could pack a lot of vermin on that ship for a one way trip back to Turdistan.
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posted on
05/13/2006 9:58:04 PM PDT
by
ncountylee
(Dead terrorists smell like victory)
To: LdSentinal
I guess the original name 'Salmonella of the Sea'
didn't fair well with the stockholders.
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posted on
05/13/2006 10:34:02 PM PDT
by
Westlander
(Unleash the Neutron Bomb)
To: summer
Here is a picture of... Oh, wait a minute. This can't be right.
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posted on
05/14/2006 12:17:33 AM PDT
by
Old Seadog
(Inside every old person is a young person saying "WTF happened?".)
To: Westlander
I took the Cruise to Hell (I think they call it Nassau) on one of Royal Carribean's skows, the Sardine Can of the Seas I believe it was named. Never again.
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posted on
05/14/2006 12:20:58 AM PDT
by
WideGlide
(That light at the end of the tunnel might be a muzzle flash.)
To: summer
God speed to this ship and crew..But just a thought. After reading the above FR articles on world events, I have to conclude that the cruise ship industry has remained remakably free of any terrorist threats, may it remain so. Just wondering...
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posted on
05/14/2006 1:03:05 AM PDT
by
ChEng
To: summer
Isn't that thing a little "top heavy"?
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posted on
05/14/2006 1:44:38 AM PDT
by
BnBlFlag
(Deo Vindice/Semper Fidelis)
To: LdSentinal
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posted on
05/14/2006 1:46:44 AM PDT
by
Proud_USA_Republican
(We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good. - Hillary Clinton)
To: LdSentinal
I read on IMDB that Poseidon bombed.
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posted on
05/14/2006 2:08:17 AM PDT
by
RandallFlagg
(Roll your own cigarettes! You'll save $$$ and smoke less!(Magnetic bumper stickers-click my name)
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