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Retired Queen Mary Cruise Ship Gets Makeover PDF Print E-mail
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Friday, 05 March 2010 00:00

cu_qm2The company currently leasing the cruise ship turned floating hotel from the city of Long Beach plans to invest $5 million in a long overdue restoration process for the rooms and restaurants. The admirable Queen Mary, a retired cruise ship converted to a hotel has been docked in Long Beach Harbor since 1967 and past due for a makeover.

Repairs to the city-owned retired cruise ship were postponed because of a financial crisis and organizational wrangling. Long Beach authorities now believe the ship is receiving its long-overdue upgrades under a new management company that also operates hotels and restaurants in the Grand Canyon, Yellowstone national parks and the Kennedy Space Center.

 

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Massive Waves Kill Two Cruise Ship Passengers In Mediterranean PDF Print E-mail
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Thursday, 04 March 2010 12:59
deadly-wavesjpg-ede74e798837f838_largeThe Louis majesty Entertainment Cruise ship was in the Mediterranean north of Barcelona, Spain, when it was hit by three massive waves, each nearly 26 feet high, said cruise line spokesman Michael Maratheftis.

Maltese government officials are on their way to investigate, because of the ship's Maltese flag, she said. The massive waves destroyed five windows on deck five in public areas -- on the forward location of the 14-deck cruise ship, killing two male passengers, one German and the second male Italian, she said.

 

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MSC Cruise Line Adds Even Larger Entertainment Cruise Ship To Fleet PDF Print E-mail
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Monday, 01 March 2010 15:12

cruise-ship-196604regToday Shipbuilder STX Europe announced the signing of a letter of intent with the fast-growing European lines for the building of a new, 140,000-ton cruise ship to debut in 2012.

The new entertainment cruise ship, to be built in St. Nazaire, France will be a somewhat-larger sister to the MSC Fantasia and MSC Splendida.

 

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Norwegian Star Cruise Ship To Be Based Out Of Tampa PDF Print E-mail
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Tuesday, 23 February 2010 10:31
7-4kbToday, Norwegian Cruise Line announced it would base a ship in Tampa in 2011 -- for the very first time. Norwegian Cruise Line says the 2,240-passenger Norwegian Star Cruise will sail seven-day Western Caribbean voyages out of Tampa on a seasonal basis only beginning on Oct. 16, 2011 and running through April 8, 2012.

The entertainment cruise ship will begin departures on Sundays with ports of venue including: Bay Islands, Belize City, Belize; Honduras, Roatan, Costa Maya and Cozumel and Mexico along with two days at sea.

 

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Cruise Photos Undamaged After Camera Discovered From Seabed PDF Print E-mail
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Friday, 12 February 2010 00:00

article-1250270-083E5C97000005DC-217_634x474A trawlerman is desperately trying to track down the owner of a digital camera after hauled from the Atlantic seabed in his nets with the photos still intact. Resident of Spain, lBenito Estevez thinks the camera was dropped overboard from the QM2 cruise liner in the Atlantic.

It's memory card revealed five photographs, one of which pictures a woman posing on the deck of a cruise ship, with the now out-of-service QE2 in the background. Estevez is now trying to locate the people in the photos.

 

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