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Queen Mary 2 Due to Arrive in Florida on Monday.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, January, 2004
By Tom Stieghorst, South Florida Sun-Sentinel Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Jan. 23--Next week August Rochlitz plans to get up before sunrise and drive south from his condo in Lauderdale-by-the-Sea to Dania Beach, where he hopes to get a good photograph of the biggest cruise ship in the world.
RMS Queen Mary 2, the regal successor to Queen Elizabeth 2, arrives the morning of Jan. 26 at Port Everglades. Rochlitz, 74, wants a picture because it is the newest and biggest passenger ship, but also because it is a reminder of days gone by. "I used to see the original Queen Mary when I was a boy in New York," he said.
It's that kind of association that sets Queen Mary 2 apart from other cruise ships. The cost ($800 million), the size...
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