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unusual facts about cruise liner



Freddie Jameson

In 1951 whilst still in the RAF Freddie was coached by Alfie Noakes of the Geraldo Orchestra, and began professional engagements on trumpet with the Joe Loss 'Ambassadors', and went on to play with Billy Ternent, Harry Parry, Joe Loss, Sidney Lipton, the Cyril Grantham Orchestra at the Park Lane Hotel, Claude Cavalotti, Nat Temple, and Geraldo - for whom he also appeared on the cruise liner Queen Mary, making seventeen return trips to New York.


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2012 in Italy

13 January - Costa Concordia disaster - a cruise liner capsized, killing at least 13 people on board.

Calderbank

Iron from the Calderbanks works was used to build the Queen Mary cruise liner.

Dear Angel

The music video was shot on September 8, 1999 aboard the Hikawa Maru cruise liner in Yamashita Park, Yokohama.

Nobiskrug

Under these difficult circumstances, the yard lengthened the ocean cruise liner MS Berlin operated by Peter Deilmann Cruises.

Phyllis Konstam

She married the tennis star Bunny Austin in 1931, whom she met on a cruise liner while travelling to the US to appear in a stage production of Frank Vosper's Murder on the Second Floor, opposite her close friend Laurence Olivier.

Pinkenba Wharf

A February 2008 visit by the luxury cruise liner the MS Queen Victoria meant that passengers could not use the international standard cruise terminal facilities at Portside Wharf and had to use the industrial wharf complex at Pinkenba instead.

Transport in Gibraltar

In 2003, the land frontier was closed for a day by Spain on the grounds that a visiting cruise liner, the MV Aurora, was affected by contagious food poisoning.

Witold Gombrowicz

Just before the outbreak of the Second World War, Gombrowicz took part in the maiden voyage of the Polish cruise liner, Chrobry, to South America.