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September 28, 2007

Queen Mary 2 in Newport tomorrow

Journal photo / John Freidah
Sharon Amaral and Joe Chaves of Newport watch the arrival of the Queen Mary 2 when it stopped in Newport in September 2004.

It’s the biggest thing in Newport this weekend.

The Queen Mary 2 will be making a stop in Rhode Island during its “Splendours of Fall” cruise which begins in New York and visits Boston, Halifax, Quebec City, and , Bar Harbor, Maine.

The 1,132-foot-long ship took just under 4 years to build at an estimated cost of $800 million.

It's expected to arrive at 8 a.m. tomorrow and depart for Boston at 5.

A document titled “Queen Mary 2 A Ship of Superlatives,” uses comparisons to make the magnitude of the ship comprehensible. For instance, on the ship, “enough toilet tissue is used to wrap the earth almost five times.”

Whether that's a good thing or not, the ship is certainly something to see.

And if you don’t get a chance to see the ship, you may be able to hear it.

The QM2’s whistle can be heard up to 10 miles away.

Posted by Brandie Jefferson  at 8:29 AM | Permalink

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