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Cruise News

Royal Caribbean's Adventure of the Seas Arrives In N.Y. Harbor

A clear, sunny Saturday afternoon of

November 10, set the stage for the arrival of the first passenger ship into

New York Harbor following the Septem- ber 11 terrorist attacks. The vessel,

Sea, Stacey Moran, Joanne Reinauer III,

Empire State, Matthew Tibbetts, Austin

Reinauer, Marie J. Turecamo, Miriam

Moran, Juniper and New Jersey - with

Justine McAllister stationed at rear guard. Fireboats John D. McKean and

John J. Harvey were positioned off Lib- erty Island to give Adventure of the Seas a welcome spray of red, white and blue.

Tugs McAllister Sisters and Mary L.

McAllister were also part of the proces- sion, but left Adventure of the Seas to escort an ACL containership.

What is dubbed as the vessel's most striking feature, however is its breadth

New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, and Royal

Caribbean CEO Richard Fain welcomed

Adventure of the Seas to the Port of New York.

Royal Caribbean's Adventure of the

Seas, sailed into New York for a two-day tribute cruise for the families of the fall- en firemen and police officers who were victim to the devastation at the World

Trade Center. Royal Caribbean also plans to donate $50,000 to the Twin

Towers Relief Fund.

The 142,000-ton Adventure of the

Seas - sister ship to Voyager and Explor- er of the Seas - was christened at Pier 88 and named by representatives of the

New York Police Department and New

York Fire Department. The vessel's godparents were Maggie McDonnell, widow of police officer Brian McDon- nell; Tara Stackpole, widow of firefight- er Captain Timothy Stackpole; fireman

Kevin Hannafin, who lost his brother, fireman Tom Hannafin; and Sgt.

Richard Lucas of the NYPD Harbor

Unit, which assisted rescuers, were joined by approximately 2,000 police and firemen's family members, as well as New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani and Royal Caribbean's CEO Richard

Fain.

Measuring 1,020 ft. (311.1 m), the vessel, which debuted into N.Y. Harbor adorned with a large American flag was led by a procession of vessels - namely

NYPD patrol boat P.O. Anthony

Sanchez. Also participating in the group were tugboats Margaret Moran, Java

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