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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...