Day One:
Driving to the port of Southampton Mayflower Terminal and catching first sight of the white-black Queen Mary 2 peeled, the largest, longest, highest, heaviest and most expensive ship ever built, evoked considerable excitement and awe. Docked at port on a 50 degree 54.25 'north latitude and 001 degrees, 25.70' W longitude and 116.4 degrees in a compass direction, the 17-Leviathan, decorated with a 1132-foot length and 148 meters Width featured, a total weight of151 400 tons and rose above the building facade with its balcony lined eclipsing binaries with it's 236.2 meters. His design extended 33.10 meters below the water line. The floating city, with its cabins, restaurants, shopping centers, libraries, theaters and planetariums, would bridge, in six days, the European and North American continents, the equivalent in hours to the duration of such an antenna 747-400, even the world's largest commercialAirliner. But the ocean crossing would civility, refinement, rejuvenation, emotional repair and return to the slower, but more elegant era of steamship travel a journey, I would would soon find out about the search for the maritime history of the past lead to the technology the presence had created.
In contrast to the proliferation of modern cruise ships, with their relatively low speeds and greater numbers, square geometry hulls, had designed the Queen Mary 2 asNext-generation successor to the 35-year-old Queen Elizabeth 2 would have, and as such the same offer year-round, passenger capacity, mainly in the rough North Atlantic, with a design that sacrificed to produce the revenue volume and lower construction costs of the traditional cruise ships for the necessary safety, speed and stability of the ocean liner. Resultantly featured, displaying the same V-shaped hull configuration characteristic of the long series of its CunardPredecessor, the thicker steel, which conducted a 40-percent higher cost than conventional cruise ships built. Designed by Stephen Payne, whose inspiration for the bow was in the Queen Elizabeth 2 and the brake wall comes from Normandy, was it the first quadruple-screw North Atlantic Ocean liner since the France of 1962. Payne himself, a naval architect born and raised in London, had with the Carnival, Carnival Fantasy and involved Rotterdam VI projects. TheThe latter had built by Hull last Statendam, a less "boxy" hull form than the traditional cruise ship item, but still considerably from a full lining design.
Designed for the primary Southampton-New York route include dimensional constraints, it dictated by the United States port, including a funnel height which the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge just ten meters and a length that exceeded evacuated the 1,100-foot pier of the port New York 34Feet.
Built by Alstom Chantiers de l'Atlantique in St. Nazaire, France, which had built the Normandy, and called G32 hull from the shipyard, it was the first Cunard liner ever built outside the United Kingdom and, like the Concorde, the world's fastest and only supersonic airliner, was thought the second Anglo-French collaborative transportation project for trans-Atlantic service, albeit through very different if not opposite modes.
HisInterior offered plenty of space and comfort is. Of the 17 decks, the first four machines, storage, and the 1254-strong crew, 13 were for the 2620 passengers and eight contained balcony cabins. Other features include a Grand Lobby, Royal Court Theatre, Illuminations Theatre and Planetarium, ConneXions Internet Centre, the Queen's ballroom, a conservatory, nine great restaurants, 11 bars and lounges, an 8,000-volume, library and bookstore a Oxford UniversityProgram of lectures, performances by the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, five swimming pools, sports facilities, a Canyon Ranch spa, gazebo, shops and a nightclub. These appointments would represent my "home" for the next six days.
Symbolic by its smaller predecessor QE2 berthed against a considerable distance from the bow to the Queen Elizabeth 2 Terminal, the Queen Mary 2 represented a twofold increase over its previous total generation counterpart, even followed hisLine on a long road of Cunard ships, the period spanning the years had a 165 -. I somehow felt that the crossing would be forthcoming not only a journey of distance, but a return to the past.
Gently separate swinging on his spine, the clouds at the side of Behemoth berth below the metal in 1810, local time.
In contrast to the conventional engine-propeller shaft technology of the older generation of ships, was the Queen Mary 2 aft instead powered by four, HullBottom-mounted electric Rolls Royce Mermaid pods, each with a fixed weight of 260 tonnes and four-pitch, 9900-pound, stainless steel blades, and together produce 115 328 hp. The storm was outboard pair of solid and provided front and rear propulsion, while the rear featured inboard pair of 360-degree azimuth and ability to both propulsion and steering, so no need for the rudder. The advanced technology system reduces both the complexity and weight andincreased internal envelope volume by eliminating the traditional engine configuration of associated equipment.
Three Rolls Royce variable-pitch, transverse propeller bow thruster, collectively produced 15 000-horsepower, provided the port and starboard bow maneuverability at speeds of up to five knots. At eight knots, if their effectiveness has been exceeded, they were covered with 90-degree rotation, fluid dynamics doors.
Led by two water-shoot sprouting tractors, the Behemothocean liner began her ponderous movement of the pelvis down. Maintaining a speed 11.5 knots in the Solent, it began its starboard side by turning 140 degrees at Calshot Reach 1907, prepared for the similar maneuver at the Brambles.
Collapsed in dark gray projected, the sun its bright orange strip to the outside through the thin, clear strips on the western horizon. Suppose a 220-degree position initiated by the channel Thorn, the Queen Mary 2's starboard turn around theIsle of Wight.
The first dinner aboard the elegant, maritime engineering triumph had been effected by the 1351-seat, three stories high, with dual-level Britannia Restaurant, a large, curved staircase, pillars, foundations had been presented, and a curved, illuminated from behind, stained glass ceiling, and reminded of and inspired by the great dining salons of the 20th Century French-liners like the Ile-de-France, L'Atlantique, and Normandy. The food itself, served on Wedgwood chinaand Crystal, Date had Waterford, White Zinfandel wine, cream mixed mushroom soup with Parmesan croutons, crispy bread and butter, oak leaf and salad with carrots shaved Boston and sherry vinaigrette, rack of pork with wild mushroom sauce, mashed potatoes, truffle, morel sauce and sauerkraut, hot apple strudel with brandy sauce, and coffee.
The thin line of orange lights in back of the coast behind the stern. The maintenance of a 27-knot speed and a250-degree position, the rock-steady, multiple, 151 000-ton mass of the black channel and Engineering commenced its great circle course from Bishop's Rock in the Scilly Isles. Before us lay the infinite Atlantic, and the path of each of the previous transatlantic Cunard Liner forged. Tomorrow I would start tracing the historical.
Second Day:
Dawn welcomed the lengthy liner to distinguish as a tunnel damp, gray. Encased between the sullen cloud dome over the sea and the marine shalebelow, the periodic white caps, the black and red ship smuggled penetrated the saturated moisture spat morning, the rain-emitting sky and the whirling, swirling sea merge into a seamless, wind stormy, ship-bombing drench.
Any unwanted movement, however, was quickly and invisibly, muffled by the two pairs of 15.63 square meters, Brown Bros / Rolls Royce fin stabilizers, which were controlled by vertical reference gyroscopic instruments and extended as far as 15 feet from the trunk tocounteract roll ship.
Immersion in 348-meter-deep waters to 98 nautical miles off the Irish had lunch at the Queen Mary crossed 2418 miles since his departure from Southampton yesterday.
Weather brought intermittent light rain with a clockwise motion to the west, to fall by the predicted wind speed 4th This force-5, fresh breeze from the south, coupled with a 11.2 degree Celsius air temperature was a 994-millibar pressure. The sea, with a moderate 4 state,manages a 10-degree Celsius temperature.
Afternoon tea at the Queen's Room took place, had a British tradition, and beautiful intermittency between lunch and dinner was on each intersection Cunard, the last individual of which was the 2002 eastbound trip on the Queen Elizabeth was second The Queen's Room itself, the largest ballroom at sea featured a vaulted ceiling, two chandeliers, a blue and gold velvet curtain on the orchestra stage, a 1225-square-foot dance floor,a live harpist and small round tables seating up to 562nd Today's presentations contain egg, ham and cheese, cucumbers, tomatoes, beef and fish-finger sandwiches, scones with cream and jam, cakes and strawberry cream.
Afternoon tea in the sea could trace his lineage some 165 years. Einstein's relativity theory somehow seemed to apply. Suspended between continent land mass and population, the ship seemed within a void, an arrested Warp seemed caught caught in the storyand where the vessel is connected with its past, as it repeats again, a separation from the presence in the country and move closer to his past on the sea. It was to this suspension of time, distance and place, led the threads of the past Cunard indeed. A man who had lived 200 years ago, had made the trip from possible today.
The name of this man was, of course, Samuel was the same as that which graced liner had a long series of ever-advancing AtlanticCunard. Born on 21 November 1787 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, when the son of Abraham Cunard, himself a carpenter at Halifax's Royal Naval Dockyard, he had forged a link on maritime physical access to the world. His initial venture had caused a Royal Mail contract to emails about the Boston-Halifax-St transport. John's route to ending the war of 1812 between Britain and the United States while he is later involved first steam-powered boat projectAtlantic crossings. Named the Royal William, the 160-meter-long-ton ship had been inaugurated in the August 1370 service in 1931 between Quebec and Halifax, according to 6.5 days for the trip.
The joint venture, which had triggered his ultimate fame came, but at the end of the decade, when the British government's intention to subsidize steam-powered mail service between Britain and the United States announced. to meet in a formal proposal for the request, brought on11th February 1839 sets out a bi-monthly Cunard operated, steam-powered service between England and Halifax, with 300-horsepower boats, the 48 Annual intersections. Awarded a contract from the Admiralty in June for four 206-meter long, 400 hp, 1120-ton ships ultimately the Columbia, which are intended to Acadia, the Caledonia and the Britannia, has been completed, plans to Halifax Boston to serve the Liverpool route.
The latter ship, the Britannia had been really the first to be completed. The207-meter long, 34 meters wide hybrid ship, shipyard African Oak and Yellow Pine in Robert Duncan's on the River Clyde in Scotland, had Ellen featured a clipper bow, three masts with square, and two mid-ship seat , black and gold paddle-boxes, almost 12 meters from both sides and contained 9-foot-wide, 28 meters in diameter extended paddles turning at 16 revolutions per minute and is outside a 403-horsepower, twin-cylinder, side lever steam engine that burned 40 tonsCoal per day over a single stack aft smoke exhausted. The engine requires at least 70 feet from the fuselage to install, took off a 640-ton coal bunker.
Of the four decks, the upper or main deck, raised featured the captain and first officer's cabins, the dining room, the galley, the wardroom, crew cabins, the suspended bridge, and the dining room, which at 36 meters long and 14 feet wide , the largest ship had been closed to the room. Two aft, spiral staircases connected the dining roomHall with the second deck accommodated, which the men's and ladies' cabins, each with two bunk beds, a sink, a mirror, a day bed and a port hole or an oil lamp, with shared toilet, which is equivalent to a 124 - person capacity, which were 24 were female. The holds, Stern is on both sides of the engine has been a deeper and deck with a capacity of 225 tons, accompanied the sail locker, the post office, shops, the steward, district, and the wine cellar in the.Coal had been stored on the fourth or lowest deck.
The 1154-ton Britannia, on scheduled services in fourth July 1840 from Liverpool to Boston with a stopover in Halifax opened, operated the world's first transatlantic steamer service, execution and 63 passengers in 12 days, ten hours for the 2534-nautical-mile crossing on a 8.5-knot speed, third the trip by pure-sail instead. After an eight-hour suspension port in Halifax, she sat in Bostonanother 46 hours.
The fifth January 1841, all four Cunard ships, the fleet had been used.
The Britannia is about 40 round trips before the Prussian Navy, which had used it converted to a pure sailing ship for target practice and renamed it sold Barbarossa. It was finally dropped in 1880. Nevertheless, it paved the way for a long series of Cunard liner to come.
Biting into the evil, dark blue, white cap-spitting North Atlantic at a 272-degree position to 1545 withtheir protruding bulbous bow, the mighty Queen Mary 2 engineering triumph over its axis at a speed of 23.4 knots set up, under the strong rays of the sun enough to tear the fabric in a unique cloud puffy, white mosaic of islands air. The ship reached a 50 degrees 12.036 'north latitude and 14 degrees had to coordinate 26.312' west longitude.
This evening dinner, served in the Britannia Restaurant Merlot wine was included, smoked halibut mousse and prawns on Russian salad;Lollo rosso and apple salad with caramelized walnuts and cider vinaigrette, filet mignon and lobster tail with little roasted potatoes, polenta and asparagus in hollandaise sauce, chocolate-banana cake with mango sauce, coffee and petit fours.
The Britannia, as the construction of ships, had been only the beginning, and would fade in comparison to the Leviathan Cunard ships in the 20th Century produced.
Third day:
Continuously rolled significant sea swells, had the Queen Mary 2struck by the dark blue, glittering star night at their center of gravity as a rocker, hammered the bow wave of the mountainous valleys and project avalanches white-reactions at 45 degrees from the midline.
ate breakfast in the King's Court, with its many stations, an omelet with ham and had peppers, bacon, potatoes hashbrowned containing grilled tomatoes, toast and cranberry juice.
Negotiate 25 - to 30-feet above the sea Mid-Atlantic Ridge, which covers theContinental Divide, had the vessel 590 nautical miles sailed in the 24-hour period since 1200 yesterday afternoon, now has a 263-degree position, with the remaining 2075 miles to the New York pilot's station.
Light rain showers were forecast to dissipate, with a gradual clearing. The force-5 wind from the northwest, had produced nine degree Celsius temperatures, with a 996.5-millibar pressure. The sea, whose poor condition was a "4 registered," claimed a 12-degreeTemperature.
Looking out is infinite in the Atlantic, I could not help but think that somewhere out there, if not in physical space, then in the historical period, was the first of the "big" Cunard Atlantic liner, which is certainly based on this as passed in the beginning was the 20th Century.
The design, the Lusitania, had originated as early as 1902 had at JP Morgan tried to create a steamboat called the International Mercantile Marine conglomerate by buying moreexisting businesses, including the White Star Line. To ensure Cunard's continued autonomy and discourage their inclusion in the ever-expanding company, the British Parliament had granted it a 20-year contract and grant for two of the world's then largest and fastest liner and in the process, once the construction speed record the Germans had won three of their twin-screw ships.
Cunard seeking offers for the two ships from four yards, specifies a 750-foot length,a 76-foot width, and a 59 000-horsepower capability of reciprocating engines driving triple screws achieved. The contract, awarded to John Brown and Company of Clydebank, Scotland, resulted in a 790-foott length and a 88-foot width, the shadow of the 30,000-ton gross vehicle weight of 2,500 tons for the first time, and employs turbine technology for the first time with a 68 000-hp combined capability, exhausted, in an effort to emulate the Germans, with four chimneys.
Construction andbeginning in the fall of 1904 produced two of the largest, fastest and most powerful ever in the Atlantic liner built constructions, with long straight, smooth, star, rounded bridges and four raked funnels sporting 787-feet long, 87 feet wide and 31 550-ton total weight of Steam turbines geared to quadruple screw driven.
Accommodating offer 563 first-class passengers amidships, 464 second class passengers aft, and 1138 third or steerage, class passengers in the front part of theHull, the first of the two new liners featured opulent appointments. A lounge in the Georgian style was wearing bright green color, a marble fireplace, stained glass, and a 20 foot dome. The Veranda Café wall had barred pattern and rattan furniture. The dining room, the dual-deck configuration, had been the first of its kind on a Cunard ship. The main lounge was decorated with mahogany paneling, while the smoking room featured dark Italian walnut. The second class dining roomLimousine also sported Georgian Times and the salon was decorated in Louis XVI style. With electricity for the first time, provided that the Lusitania modern conveniences for its passengers, including two elevators.
On his second crossing to the west, the liner beat all speed records with an average of 23.993 knots and for A 617-mile, one-day interval, although it ultimately broke the 26-knot mark, and reached New York in four days, 20 hours.
His fate was notto remain so successful. Based on its 202nd England Travel on 1 May 1915, 1257 passengers, 702 crew members and three stowaways had approached the British ship, sailing ten miles from the Old Head of Kinsale, where it was broadsided by a German torpedo listing forward and to starboard. Slipping oceanward in a 45-degree arc first angle, it hit the ground 18 minutes later exploded and killed in 1201 on board, the result of a deliberate act of war.
As not of a cliffLand during the six-day Atlantic crossing seemed sighted, the Queen Mary 2 into a gap between two continents, the journey of course, speed, weather, sea state, distance and inner life, the suspension, although constantly moving civilization on top of the sea.
Soldiering on, the ship was burning 3.1 tons of heavy fuel oil per hour with a 100-percent load on its diesel engines or run 261 tons per day for a 29-knot speed steam, while it used six tons of diesel per hour to run theirGas turbines or 237 tons per day, pulling off a 1,412,977 U.S. gallon tank for the former and a 966 553-liter tank for the latter.
The supply of fresh water from sea water by three Alfa Laval Multi Effect Evaporator plate, supplemented with a speed of 630 tons per day satisfaction produces 1,100 tons of daily consumption. The potable water tank capacity reaches 1,011,779 U.S. gallons.
A German-themed evenings serving lunch in the King's Court had bratwurst, sauerkraut bacon, cheese includedspaetzel, fried potatoes, steak, and black forest cake.
The maintenance of a 261-degree position, and 23.1 knots speed steam, the city on the sea had reached a 49 degrees 43.705 'north latitude and 28 degrees, 25.458' west longitude position of 1500.
The Queen Mary 2 conservatory, porch skylight was designed after the cafes of the Mauretania featured 60-by-25-foot trompe l'oeil ceiling view of a lush, green gardens, paneled walls, the wrought-iron gates looked throughrolling hills and wicker furniture and was created to counteract the cold, gray, stormy winter of the North Atlantic.
The Mauretania itself, the ship that had made the winter Garden inspiration had available, the second of two early 20th Cunard century designs of the Lusitania. The nine-liner decorated, housing 563 First Class passengers in 253 cabins, 464 second class passengers in 133 cabins, 1138 passengers in 278 cabins of the third class had its own itemDates opulent. The first class of smokers, for example, in the rear had featured polished wood paneling and plasterwork located. The lounge is located on the deck of the boat and measure 80 by 53 feet, mahogany wall panels were decorated with gold moldings, ceiling beams long, gilded bronze and crystal chandeliers. The library, with bay windows had been decorated with maple paneling. The first class dining room, seating 330, had long been configured with,Dressed in white tables and chairs and, with ash, teak paneling and arched windows decorated with polished shaped, while the second class dining room, with parquet floors, oak paneling and carvings featured Georgian cornices. A wide staircase between the second and third funnels fitted, connected with five decks of public spaces.
Beginning of the service on 16 November 1907 between Liverpool and New York, had the Mauretania with four-bladed propeller was upgraded two years later,In 1909, at which time they could reach top speeds of 26.6 knots. It was only the first of several modifications. With the outbreak of World War I in 1914 as it was painted gray and briefly as a troop carrier serves, redesigned, and returned later to commercial service five years in 1919, at which time there in the company worked with the Aquitania and Berengaria offers weekly East and westbound service on the Southampton-New York route. It was the fastest in thethree.
Another change necessitated by a fire in the conversion to oil-burning engine technology and cabin reconfiguration, putting at both the second and third class passenger capacity.
In its 27 years of operation, 22 of which had as it took place in the North Atlantic speed record until the Bremen recaptured in 1929, was the Mauretania sailed some 2.1 million miles in trans-Atlantic, Mediterranean, Caribbean and service, before he usurped by two major ,more advanced Cunard liner. Delivery of the last crossing on 26th September 1934, it was scratched in the following year in Scotland.
This evening dinner at An, served in the Queen Mary 2 Britannia Restaurant, Thermidor had featured wine White Zinfandel, baby shrimp on walnut brioche; cob salad with smoked chicken and bleu cheese dressing, roasted sea bass with Mediterranean vegetables and olive tapenade, bananas foster with rum raisin ice flambee and cream and coffee.
TheLusitania and Mauretania replacement, although larger, would prove an ill-assorted pair: although it had been the third in the series, it was slower, while the other was from the fleet of the enemy has been transferred, the Germans.
Fourth day:
Suspended in the middle of the Atlantic pursed, the black-hulled Leviathan's Great Circle course to eat a 249-degree position, the gray and creamy-white ocean with his bow with a 21.7-knot appetite. Four hundred seventy miles off the coastNewfoundland negotiated, the ship 3549 feet deep water, under 607 nautical miles in the 24-hour period yesterday, now 1615 miles from Southampton. In a recent 47-degree 34.066 'north latitude and 042 degrees 00.754' west longitude position, it was 1468 miles from its target.
The conditions were mild: the air temperature at 14 degrees Celsius, had been with a force-4 moderate breeze from the southwest and combined low clouds with a 989-millibar airPressure. The sea, whose condition was low, had a 12.7-degree Celsius temperature.
If the triplet of the early 20th Century, Cunard could Liner chronological order have sailed past the Queen Mary 2 in, Aquitania was the third countries have the towed both the Lusitania and the Mauretania, the long, slim, quad-ships smuggled built by John Brown and Company of Clydebank.
The 45,647-tonne ship, with a 901-foot length and a 97-foot width, was both larger and heavierthan its two predecessors, which in a 3,200-passenger capacity. Launched on 21 April 1913, it had begun trial runs 13 months later, reached 24 knots maximum speed, and entered commercial service on 30 May, 1914, the Liverpool-New York route.
Lavishly appointed, it featured a long gallery, the lounges of the lounge connected to a smoking garden rooms decorated with a series of, a carpet, Louis XVI-style high-class restaurant, a lounge columned Palladiowhich lasted two decks and the first ever installed on a Cunard ship pool.
Late in the North Atlantic, had the Aquitania on the edge of the First World War and was seized by the government for military service as an auxiliary cruiser in August of 1914, but due to their excessive size, had been sailing as Armstrong Whitworth troop ship the following year. Reconfigured for ocean liner service after the war, the ship's civilian role in August 1920 to change theirCapacity six years later, in 1916, when a major reconfiguration decreased complement the first class passenger 618-610, increases the capacity of second class 614-950, and drastically reduced the third grade supplemented by about three-forth, from 1998 to 640 class, to be more precise passenger demand.
Once again, a 7724-person troop carrier during World War II re-configured, provided that the Aquitania eight years of military service, in which he sailed500,000 miles and carried more than 300,000 soldiers.
Arrival in Southampton on 1 December 1949, the multiple-role vessel ended 35 years service, having sailed some three million miles to 443 trips. It was last Cunard Quad smuggled design.
Lunch, back to the present on the Queen Mary 2, was in the Carvery, was served with even one of the stations King's Court, and had included beef tikka masala, white rice, cauliflower in cheese sauce and Double Chocolate FudgeCake.
Although the Aquitania is very long, mulitple-roll, and 1949 ended had career fruitful, it was, for the most part continue to work are tandem, than originally thought, with two other Cunard transatlantic liners, in spite of the fact that Lusitania was almost destroyed immediately after entering service. The third ship emerged not from a Cunard blueprint of life given by a shipbuilder on the Clyde, but by the very much needed, was the enemy of hisReplacement.
In its concern with the Cunard and White Star Line Designs, which now regularly the Atlantic, the Hamburg-America Line competition had plied the keel of a new generation of transatlantic steamers, 18 June 1910 is set, the largest capacity, highest gross weight passenger ship ever built. The specifications were for the time staggering: measuring 919 meters long and 98 meters wide, the oblong, tri-funnel-shaped, 52,117-ton ship, the emperor was designatedpowered by steam engines geared to four-bladed propeller feeding off of 8,500 tons of coal nourishing two 69 - and 95-foot-long machine, respectively. Accommodating offer 908 first-class, 972 second class, 942 third class and 1,772 steerage-class passengers, the behemoth, driven by a 90-ton rudder, 23 May was baptized in 1912 and entered commercial service 13 months later, on 10 June, from Cuxhaven to New York with a stop in Southampton.
The Emperor presented aFirst Class winter garden with palm trees and potted plants, a dual-deck swimming pool.
Because top-heavy initial service requirements had proved his three funnels were retrofitted from nine feet for a shorter fall.
Ultimately, from sailing because the First World War German atrocities prohibited, the ship had sunk in Hamburg for four years at anchor until agreement led war reparation in his transfer to Cunard in 1919 as compensation for the German-Lusitania. Referenced inSouthampton two years later, in April 1921 it had a first upgrade, while its coal-burning engine technology with oil and had been replaced with 972, 630, 606 have been reconfigured, and 515 have undergone the first, second, third and tourist passengers, respectively. Renamed Berengaria, was the ship the Mauretania and Aquitania, Cunard's Weekly operating transatlantic service. Although it originally planned to continue to operate until 1940, their obsoleteCabling system that had sustained in consequence of fires on board, his expected lifetime service be excluded temporarily and only the Mauretania and Aquitania, to offer a new generation of Cunard liner, double the amount of the existing design could come to services. The ship, of course, bore the name of the current one: Queen Mary.
Dinner in the restaurant La Piazza on board the (current) Queen Mary 2 serves, had a mixed salad with ranch dressing, artichoke hearts included;Vegetable moussaka, pasta with onions, mushrooms, black olives, garlic and red tomato sauce, tiramisu and coffee.
Dusk, it would be more correct, by the wooden deck with his Queen Mary I-line reminiscent of the loungers and down to the sea, rather than read to the sky. The former, a mirror image of the latter appeared deep blue, the reflection of the temporary brightness of the sky in the early evening, when the mountainous white Luž had separated formationsCreation of a blue divide. It then rapidly briefly in a dark blue and turns, a cold, sullen, winter gray, the prevailing environmental conditions of so many previous Atlantic crossings, as the dark, billowing clouds together in a tight, closed ceiling again hampered, even a momentary glance of the sun . Dimensional merging with the ocean, cacooned the amorphous-referential void the floating city extended until visibility not more than ten meters from each of its sides. TwoSouls braved well dressed, the violent, stormy wind as they tried, underpinned by the strength to walk around the deck. So life was on a transatlantic crossing.
When the day limited the Line of midnight, the ship from the Newfoundland Basin to the Grand Banks of Newfoundland, and crossed, effectively achieved the North American continent. Two days was the steaming before it arrived at the terminal, the Port of New York.
