QUEEN MARY 2 ARRIVES IN NEW YORK HARBOR to COMMEMORATE CUNARD’S 175TH ANNIVERSARY
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QUEEN MARY 2 and the Staten Island ferry SPIRIT OF AMERICA
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QUEEN MARY 2 framed in a rainbow from the spray of the fireboat JOHN J. HARVEY.
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QUEEN MARY 2 with the Statue of Liberty off her bow and the Lower Manhattan skyline to stern.
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Fireboat JOHN J. HARVEY salutes QUEEN MARY 2 as she backs into her berth at the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal
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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.)
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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.