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WELCOME to Brooklyn, passengers. It seems fitting that the Queen Mary 2 - the massive snob-mover that insists on segregating first-class passengers from lowly steerage types - made its inaugural landing in Red Hook, Brooklyn, on the 94th anniversary of the day the Titanic sank to the bottom of the Atlantic. This time, the Queen made it across the ocean without incident. I think a few folks on board might have preferred the excitement of a close encounter with an iceberg. The ship was welcomed to our shores before 5 a.m., not with champagne or fireworks - but with a...

Passengers on the luxury Queen Mary 2 cruise ship are threatening to mutiny after the ship set sail from Florida with a damaged propeller. They have said they will refuse to disembark when the ship reaches Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, next week, to prevent it from continuing its journey. It has dropped three ports of call because it is running at reduced speed after the accident. Cunard Lines, which operates the ship, says it has offered compensation. On tow The world's largest liner is on a 38-day trip around South America. However it is running two days behind schedule,...

NEW YORK -- Four luxurious passenger ships, including the Queen Mary 2 and the Queen Elizabeth 2, will abandon Manhattan's Hudson River piers and begin docking in Brooklyn next year. Carnival Corp. will move the berths of the four ships to a huge pier the city is redeveloping in the Red Hook section, city and company officials said. The city hopes the shift will create thousands of jobs, spur retail and tourist-industry development and breathe new life into what was once a bleak warehouse district, and bring 250,000 more passengers to the city each year on top of the...

Gigantic, it is. Titanic, it's not.Ninety-two years and eight days after another British ocean liner did not reach New York on its maiden voyage, the Queen Mary 2 steamed through the Verrazano Narrows and up the harbour for the first time.Laden with opulence, the Cunard Line's newest and largest ship even brought its own weather - a London-like drizzle and fog which eased off as the ship arrived.The luxury liner passed under the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge nearly on schedule after making up time lost to fog and the residual effect of storms during the first 48 hours of its inaugural Atlantic...

SOUTHAMPTON, England (AFP) - The world's newest and biggest cruise liner, Queen Mary 2, was set to depart Monday on its first transatlantic voyage, braving a nasty North Atlantic winter storm en route to sunny Florida. AFP Photo The black-hulled 345-meter (1,139-foot) flagship of Cunard, the upmarket British unit of US cruise line group Carnival, was scheduled to sail at 5 pm (1700 GMT) for a 14-day journey to Fort Lauderdale. It had yet to slip its moorings by 6:15 pm (1815 GMT), however, as it continued to load baggage at Southampton harbour. "It's just an unusual amount of luggage...

World’s Largest Cruise Ship Set for First Transatlantic Luxury Voyage S O U T H A M P T O N, England, Jan. 11 — As the Queen Mary 2 prepares for its maiden voyage, leaving England Monday for Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., the world's largest ocean liner has two kinds of admirers — the 2,600 people who have tickets, and the millions who don't and may not be able to afford them anyway. "We can't get up there," said Christie Taylor, an admiring bystander near the tightly guarded ship's berth in Southampton, England. "We can't get any closer." As Britain's...

U.S. intelligence officials say al-Qaida has turned its terror sights to a sea jihad, targeting Western luxury liners and aircraft carriers. The Brisbane Courier-Mail reports owners of the world's largest cruise ship – the recently launched $1.3 billion Queen Mary 2 – confirmed terror threats hang over its maiden voyage slated for early next year. The paper reports U.S. intelligence officials also found evidence Osama bin Laden's terror network planned to attack the British aircraft carrier Ark Royal as it passed through the Gibraltar Straits en route to the Iraq theater of war earlier this year. WorldNetDaily exclusively reported Sept....

Al-qaeda blueprint exposedBy Ben English, Ian Gallagher and Jef Sommerfield December 29, 2003AL-QAEDA has turned its terror sights to the sea, targeting luxury cruise liners in an expansion of its "jihad" against the West. Liners like the Queen Mary 2 are under threat Owners of the recently launched $1.3 billion Queen Mary 2 yesterday confirmed threats of terror hang over its maiden voyage early next year. The Osama bin-Laden terrorist group is also adopting new tactics to destroy commercial aircraft. British MP Patrick Mercer has revealed Saudi authorities arrested two Islamic suicide pilots. He said the pilots were preparing to...

URGENT - 15h44 - Dramatic accident in Saint-Nazaire At least eleven people died Saturday in the collapse of a footbridge of the giant steamer Queen Mary II, in construction with the shipyards of the port.