In May six years ago, I posted these fotos of a relatively new NCL vessel called Norwegian Spirit. Yesterday morning at 0615 . . . l’amiga caught this view of sunrise looking over toward Jersey City.
It’s Breakaway‘s inaugural entry into the city . . . Here’s an article about some of the related welcoming events.
Here’s the full monty, and about twelve hours later, here she
exits as captured by John Watson from his cliff over on Staten Island.
Thanks to l’amiga and John Watson for these fotos. Here’s an article about building this vessel; this series on building her goes all the way back to 2011. Anyone explain why it’s called Breakaway?
I’ll try to catch her entering the Narrows one of these days.
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May 11, 2013 at 12:20 pm
tugpower
The name BREAKAWAY was chosen to represent this new class of ships that Norwegian Cruise Line is presently building. Project BREAKAWAY. Another sister to NORWEGIAN BREAKAWAY is presently being constructed at Meyer Werft, Papenburg, Germany, and is due out next April, 2014. The name NORWEGIAN GETAWAY has already been chosen. BREAKAWAY & GETAWAY are 144,000 ton ships. Still, a third and larger ship of 163,000 tons is in the works. http://www.ncl.com/project-breakaway/overview, http://directlinecruises.com/norwegian-cruise-line/12741/norwegian-cruise-line-announces-breakaway-plus/, http://www.meyerwerft.de/en/meyerwerft_de/