QUEEN MARY 2 and the Staten Island ferry SPIRIT OF AMERICA

QUEEN MARY 2 framed in a rainbow from the spray of the fireboat JOHN J. HARVEY.

QUEEN MARY 2 with the Statue of Liberty off her bow and the Lower Manhattan skyline to stern.

Fireboat JOHN J. HARVEY salutes QUEEN MARY 2 as she backs into her berth at the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal

Historic 1938 coastal tanker MARY A. WHELAN (with an assist from the historic tugboat CORNELL out of view) accompanies QUEEN MARY 2 to her Brooklyn berth as the Staten Island ferry SEN. JOHN. J. MARCHI sails past. The WHELAN is now a floating cultural center operated by PortSide New York. (For more on the history of the WHELAN see portside-newyork.squarespace.com.)

QUEEN MARY 2 holds position off the Battery in Lower Manhattan for a music and light show with the Statue of Liberty as a backdrop before sailing for Halifax, Nova Scotia.