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Day One:

Driving to the port of Southampton Mayflower Terminal and catch the first glimpse of the white-black-hulled Queen Mary 2, the largest, longest, tallest, the heaviest and most expensive ship ever built, a deep emotion and surprise. Moored in the harbor of 50 degrees, 54.25 ‘north latitude and 001 degrees, 25.70′ west longitude 116.4 degrees, and opposite the direction of movement, decorated with 17-Leviathan, a 1132-foot width long and 148 meters, the recommended weight total of 151 400 tonnes, and hung over the ‘construction of a balcony-lined façade, replacing his elevation 236.2 feet. The advanced design of 33.10 feet below the waterline. A floating city, which also has cabins, restaurants, shopping centers, libraries, theaters and planetariums, it would be a bridge, in six days, the European Union and North American continent, corresponding to the one-hour air journey from 747 – 400, then more commercial airliner in the world.

But the crossing of the ocean courtesy, refinement, rejuvenation, emotional repair, and return to a slower pace, but the ship was elegant travel, travel, I soon find out, would lead to a search of the maritime history of the past, which had created current technology.

Unlike the spread of modern cruise ships of their relatively lower speeds and higher volumes, square geometry of the hulls, the Queen Mary 2 was designed for the next generation successor to 35 years, Queen Elizabeth 2 and as such should be offered the same throughout the year, a passenger transport properties, especially in the rough North Atlantic, a project that the volume turnover sacrificed generation and reduce the construction costs of a traditional cruise ship is necessary for security, speed and stability of long-running ship. Resultantly, contained the same V-shaped frame assembly characterized by a long series of his predecessors Cunard built thick steel, which was carrying 40 percent more expensive than a traditional cruise ships. Designed by Stephen Payne, the inspiration for the arch had become the Queen Elizabeth 2 and the brake wall Normandy, was the first quadruple screw North Atlantic ocean ship as in France in 1962.

Aimed at primary Southampton-New York route, she joined dimensional constraints dictated by the port of the United States, including a funnel height, which opened the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge by only ten feet and a total length that exceeded the 1100 foot pier in the port of New York, with 34 feet.

Built by Alstom Chantiers de l’Atlantique in Saint-Nazaire, France, who also built the Normandie, and designated the G32 helmet by the yard, was the first Cunard liner built outside the United Kingdom and as Concorde, the fastest in the world and so far only supersonic airliner, became the second Anglo-French collaborative project designed to transport liner services, though for very different, if not opposed, ways.

The interior offers space and comfort. Of the 17 bridges, the first four are machines, storage, and the team of 1254 personnel, 13 were of 2,620 passengers and eight cabins with balconies content. Notable features include a large hall, the Royal Court Theatre, Illuminations Theatre and Planetarium, the Center for Internet connections, ballroom of the Queen, a winter garden, nine restaurants, 11 bars and lounges, a library of 8000 volumes and a library, a lecture program at the University of Oxford, performances at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, five swimming pools, sports facilities, a Canyon Ranch spa, a pavilion of shops and a nightclub. These appointments are from my “home” for the next six days.

Symbolically reflected by its smaller predecessor QE2 docked at a considerable distance from the bow to the Queen Elizabeth 2 Terminal, Queen Mary 2 is an increase of twice the gross weight of its counterpart in the previous generation and, in fact, back online Cunard ships long journey that had lasted for a period of 165 years. I kind of felt that the measure not only impending trip away, but returned in time.

Gently vibrates the spine, giant distanced itself from side to side around the metal pier below the clouds at 1810 local time.

Unlike conventional technology propeller-shaft of the older generation of ships, the Queen Mary 2 was powered by four instead of the lower hull rear mounted Rolls Royce Mermaid pod electric motor, each weighing 260 tons and contains four fixed pitch, 9900 – books, stainless steel blades, and together produce 115,328 horsepower. The attacker, the outer pair is fixed and always with front and rear, while the rear pair appears in the capacity of the azimuth of 360 degrees and has both propulsion and steering, avoiding the need for the rudder. Technology system reduces the complexity and weight and increase the internal volume of the hull by removing appliances traditional engine configuration.

Three Rolls Royce variable pitch propeller, the cross-bow, collectively, to produce 15 000 horses, though the doorway, and right steering capabilities at a speed of up to five knots. At eight knots, their effectiveness had been overcome, they belonged to 90 degrees of rotation, fluid-dynamic ports.

Led by two tugs pushing water shot, the ship began its massive movement by logging in the watershed. Maintain a speed of 11.5 knots in the Solent before starting his starboard turn 140 degrees to reach Calshot in 1907, ready for operation similar to Brambles.

Compressed in dark gray, the sun threw his bright orange stripes across the narrow strip of views on the western horizon. Assuming a 220-degree heading through the Thorn Channel, the Queen Mary 2 began its starboard turn around the Isle of Wight.

The first dinner aboard the elegant victory, marine engineering, served in the 1351-seat, three-story, two-tiered Britannia Restaurant, which was characterized by a grand staircase, wide, column supports, and an arc, the backlit stained glass ceiling and remember and inspired by the great 20th-century dining French shirts and Ile-de-France, s of the Atlantic “, and Normandy. The food itself, served on Wedgwood china and Waterford crystal, had included Zinfandel white wine, cream of mushroom soup mixed with Parmesan croutons, crisp bread and butter, and oak leaf lettuce with carrots and sherry Boston shaving vinaigrette, pork loin with mushroom ragout, truffle mashed potatoes, morel sauce and sauerkraut, hot apple strudel with brandy sauce and coffee.

The thin line of orange lights outlining the coast traced behind the stern. Maintain a speed of 27 knots and a heading of 250 degrees, rock-steady, 151,000 tons of ground engineering has had the black channel and commenced its great circle of Bishop Rock in the Scilly Isles. Ahead lay the Atlantic Ocean Endless and the path forged by each of the former Cunard transatlantic liners. Tomorrow I will start following the historical order.

Day two:

Dawn greeted a long line of traffic as the indistinguishable tunnels, gray cloth. Nestled between the tower and slate sullen cloud Navy Marine below, which spat periodic white caps, black-red funneled vessel penetrated the saturated humidity in the morning, the rain-emitting sky, whirling and swirling sea blend seamlessly , wind windy, ship-bombarded with doses of drugs.

Payne himself, a naval architect born and raised in London, had participated in the festival of Carnival, Carnival Fantasy, and Rotterdam VI projects. The latter, including a helmet Statendam change was characterized by a less “square” hull traditional cruises, but was still considerably removed a full-line design.

Any unwanted movement was quickly and invisibly, hampered by two pairs of 15.63 square meters Brown Bros / Rolls Royce fin stabilizers which were controlled by gyroscopic vertical reference instruments and extended as far as 15 meters from the hull deployment of ships to counter.

Throw water 348 feet deep 98 nautical miles from Ireland, at noon, was the Queen Mary 2 is covered 418 miles since leaving Southampton yesterday.

Current weather caused sporadic, light rain with a clockwise motion to the west, is expected to drop to under 4-5 The current strength, the Southern breeze, combined with 11.2 degrees Celsius temperature transported 994-mbar pressure. Sea, moderate, four State 10 degrees Celsius temperature.

Afternoon tea is considered the queen’s room, was an English tradition, and a delicious intermittently between lunch and dinner are served in the Cunard line, the last of which was personal journey east in 2002 by Queen Elizabeth 2 Queen’s Hall itself, the largest ballroom at sea, characterized by a curved roof, crystal chandeliers, two beds, blue and gold velvet curtain above the stage, orchestra, dance floor, 1225-square meters, a live harpist, and a small, round table seats up to 562 today’s Presentation includes eggs, ham and cheese, cucumber, tomato, meat, fish, sandwiches, scones with cream and jam, cream and strawberry tarts.

Tea in the sea could trace its lineage some 165 years. The theory of relativity Einstein somehow seemed to apply. Suspended between the continents, mass, and the people, the boat seemed trapped in a void, a chain whose history seemed to stand still and captured the ship in your past has returned, as she repeated once more, a separation of this above land and sea approach was the suspension of time, distance, and instead the son of Cunard has actually happened. A man who had lived 200 years ago, today made the trip possible.

The name of the man, of course, was the same as that which had adorned a wide range of liners never advance of the Atlantic, Samuel Cunard. Born November 21, 1787 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, the son of Abraham Cunard, himself a carpenter in Halifax Dockyard Royal Navy, he had created a maritime link to the physical entry into the world. His first initiative led to a Royal Mail award the contract to carry mail on Boston-Halifax-St. Itinerary of John after the termination of the War of 1812 between England and America, while later he became involved with the project of the first steamship is intended for Atlantic crossings. Named the Royal William, was 160 feet long, 1370 ton ship was launched for use in August 1931 between Quebec and Halifax, requiring 6.5 days for the trip.

The story that ultimately led to his fame, however, took place at the end of the decade, when the British government announced its intention to subsidize steam mail service between England and the United States. In a formal proposal to meet the requirement, introduced February 11, 1839, Cunard has introduced a service every two months, the steam between England and Halifax operated by 300 ships per year that passes horsepower 48. Won a contract from the Admiralty in June for four 206 meters, 400 hp, 1,120 tonnes at the end vessels to be named Acadia, New Caledonia, Columbia, and Britannia, has finalized plans to serve the route Liverpool-Halifax-Boston .

The latter ship, the United Kingdom, was actually completed first. 207-foot long, 34 meters wide hybrid power of the ship, built of oak and yellow pine African, Robert Duncan River Clyde in Scotland Yard, has been exposed to Clipper bow, three-masted square feet, and two amidships is, black and gold box paddle, which has been extended to nearly 12 feet on each side, and contained a 9 feet wide, 28-foot diameter blades turning 16 revolutions per minute and works out 403-hp, two cylinder in mid-lever steam engine, which burned 40 tons of coal a day until the end of one, behind the pile of smoke. The engine, which requires the installation of the hull 70 feet, pulled the 640 tons of bunker coal.

Four bridges, the upper deck or main, the captain and first officer recommended cabins, pantry, kitchen, mess’, crew cabins, raised, exposed to the bridge, and the dining room, which at 36 meters in length and 14 meters wide, was attached to the large space on board. Two aft, circular staircase and dining room and the second bridge, which is located in the gentlemen and women, houses, each with two bunk beds, sink, mirror, door or hole in bed day and an oil lamp, with toilets, that is, the capacity of 124 persons, of whom 24 were women. Loading facilities are located on both sides of the rear engine deck and can accommodate less than 225 tons, with the sail locker, mail room, warehouse, shop stewards of the district, and a cellar behind. The coal was stored in the fourth or lowest deck.

The Britannia 1154 tons, launched in service July 4, 1840 from Liverpool to Boston with a stop in Halifax, operated the first transatlantic steam service, carrying 63 passengers and takes 12 days, ten hours for water to 2.534 million miles cruise at a speed of 8.5 knots, or one third of the displacements of pure navigation. After a stay of eight hours from the port of Halifax, went to Boston in another 46 hours.

On January 5, 1841, the four Cunard ships had entered the park.

Britain has taken a 40 intermittently sold before the Prussian Navy, which had been converted into a pure vessel used for purposes of destination and renamed it Barbarossa. It had finally sunk in 1880. However, it opened the way for a long Cunard ships to come.

Bite in anger, dark blue, white spit of Cape North Atlantic in a 272-degree heading in 1545 with his outgoing, bulbous bow, the mighty Queen Mary 2 engineering triumph launched on its axis at a speed of 23, 4 knots, the sun’s rays are powerful enough to rip the fabric of a unique mosaic clouds puffy white aerial islands. The ship had reached a level of 50, 12.036 ‘north latitude and 14 degrees, 26,312′ west longitude coordinate.

That evening, dinner, served in the restaurant Britain, were included in the Merlot wine, smoked halibut and shrimp mousse, Italian salad, Lollo Rosso and apple salad with caramelized walnuts and cider vinaigrette, filet mignon and lobster tail for small roasted potatoes, polenta cake and asparagus in hollandaise sauce, chocolate banana tart with mango sauce, coffee and pastries.

The Britannia, the ship’s design, was just beginning, and would be nothing compared to the Cunard ship Leviathan produced in the 20th century.

Day three:

Constantly bowled significant sea swells, the Queen Mary 2 was established through the dark blue, shining star of the night of the fire swing, the arc of mountains and waves pounding the troughs projecting avalanche-white reactions at 45 degrees in the middle.

Breakfast, eaten in the king’s court consists of several stations that were involved in the ham and pepper omelet, bacon, potatoes hashbrowned, grilled tomato, toast and white cranberry juice.

Debate 25 – to 30-foot seas against the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, which covers the Continental Divide, the ship was sailing 590 nautical miles within 24 hours from 1200 noon yesterday, continues today a 263-degree heading, with 2075 miles back to New York, Pilot Station.

Light rain showers are expected to dissipate, with the gradual cleansing. The force-5 Northwest winds had produced nine degrees Celsius, a pressure of 996.5 millibars. The sea, whose status was recorded moderate “4″, maintains a temperature of 12 degrees.

Staring into the Atlantic Ocean is endless, I could not help thinking that somewhere there, if not in physical space, so in historical times, was the first “major” Cunard liners Atlantic, had probably passed this way in the early 20th century.

Construction, Lusitania, had its origins in 1902 when JP Morgan had tried to create a conglomerate called the steamer International Mercantile Marine by buying several existing companies, including the White Star Line. To ensure the continued autonomy Cunard and take admission in the company in constant growth, if the British Parliament had granted him a 20-year contract and grant to build two of the world then the largest and fastest liners and in the process of finding the speed record, the Germans had captured three of their ships with twin-screw.

Cunard, the search for bids for the two ships of four shipyards, you specify a length of 750 meters, a width of 76 meters and a capacity of 59 000 horsepower reciprocating engines reached by driving screws triple. The contract, awarded to John Brown and Company of Clydebank, Scotland, led to a length of 790 Foott and a width of 88 meters, exceeding the weight of 30,000 gross tonnage of 2,500 tons for the first time, and the use of turbine engine technology, for the first time, with a combined capacity of 68,000 horsepower, exhausted, in an attempt to emulate the Germans, through four chimneys.

Construction will begin in the fall of 1904, produced two of the largest, the linings of the Atlantic the fastest and most powerful ever built with long, slim design, just rounded Sterns bridges and four raked funnels sporting 787 feet long, 87 feet width, and 31 550 tonnes gross weight powered by steam turbines adapted to quadruple screws.

Accommodate 563 passengers in first class amidships, 464 followed by a second class, and in 1138 the third, or third-class passengers in view of the body of the class, the first of two new ships feature opulent appointments. Georgian living room sported a pale green, marble fireplace, stained glass, and 20 meter high dome. Café terrace wall models was grateful and rattan furniture. Dining room, a dual-head, was the first of its kind on the Cunard ship. In the main hall was decorated with mahogany paneling, a smoking room features dark walnut Italian. Second-class dining room also sported the names of Georgia and the room was decorated in Louis XVI style. Even the electricity for the first time, the Lusitania, provided with modern facilities for passengers, including two elevators.

On his way to the second to the west, the lining beat all speed records, an average of 23.993 knots and covers a 617-mile, one day at a distance, but eventually exceeded 26 knots, reaching New York in four days , 20 hours.

His fate was not so successful. Starting in England at its 202nd Travel May 1, 1915 with 1257 passengers, 702 crew members and three stowaways, the ship had approached Britain, sailing ten miles from the Old Head of Kinsale, when he was broadsided by a German torpedo, listing forward and to starboard. Ocean glider by 45 degrees, the first rainbow angle, touch the ground 18 minutes later, explodes, killing 1,201 on board, which is the result of a deliberate act of war.

Because no outcrop of land is seen during the six days to cross the Atlantic, the Queen Mary 2 seemed suspended in the void between the two continents, traveling in the direction, speed, time, sea state, distance and the inner life, the storm, while still moving on the sea of ​​civilization

Soldiering on, the ship burned 3.1 tons of fuel per hour at a 100 per cent to operate its diesel engines, or 261 tons per day on a steam velocity of 29 knots, when he spent six tons of diesel per hour to run its gas turbines or 237 tons per day, bottling of a pool of 1,412,977-gallon for the first and a pool of 966 553 liters for the latter.

The supply of drinking water, are made of sea water 3 Alfa Laval Plate Multi Effect Evaporators, was filled at a rate of 630 tons per day, you build on a daily consumption of 1100 tons. Volume of drinking water has responded to 1,011,779 U.S. gallons.

A German breakfast served on the topic in the king’s court, had included bratwurst, sauerkraut, bacon, cheese spaetzel, roasted potatoes, scallops, and black forest cake.

Maintaining a 261-degree heading and a speed of 23.1 knots steam, the city by the sea had reached a level of 49, 43.705 ‘north latitude and 28 degrees, 25.458′ west longitude position to the 1500th

The Queen Mary 2 is the winter garden, designed by skylighted verandah cafes in Mauritania, had offered a 60 by 25 feet ceiling trompe l’oeil depicting a lush green gardens, walls looked through the iron gates at rolling hills, and wicker furniture, and was created to counter the cold, gray, turbulent winter North Atlantic.

Mauritania, the ship that had provided the inspiration for the Winter Garden, was the second of two early ’20s Cunard has scheduled a century after the Lusitania. Nine-coated line, which can accommodate 563 passengers in 253 cabins, first class, second class, 464 passengers in 133 cabins and 1138 third class passengers in 278 cabins, has been exposed in their own luxurious appointments. First-class smoking room, for example, is located at the stern, was featured polished wood wall panels and plaster friezes. Lounge, located in the deck of 80 boats and 53 feet, was decorated with mahogany paneling, moldings of gold, long beams, gilded bronze and crystal chandeliers. The library, with stained glass windows were decorated with panels of Sycamore.

The room first class dining for 330, was set up with a long white dress tables and chairs, rotating, and was decorated with polished ash, teak-shaped panels, and arched windows, while the Classroom second room, with parquet floors, featuring Georgian oak panels and carved cornices. A grand staircase, which is mounted between the second and third funnels, five bridges connected to the public space.

Entry into service November 16, 1907 between Liverpool and New York, Mauritania has been equipped with four-bladed propellers, two years later, in 1909, when it could reach a top speed of 26.6 knots. It ‘was just the first of several changes. When the Second World War broke out in 1914, for example, was painted gray, and a workforce short, the ship, and returned to service reliveried business, five years later, in 1919, when he was a society of Aquitania and Berengaria offers weekly east and west service from Southampton to New York route. It ‘was the fastest of the three.

Another change made necessary by fire, resulting in the conversion technology of the oil combustion engine and cabin reconfiguration, reducing both the capacity of the second and third class passengers.

In 27 years of activity during the 22 that had been in the record North Atlantic speed, until it was reconquered by the Bremen 1929, Mauritania had sailed 2.1 million miles of the Atlantic, the Mediterranean and the Caribbean before serving abused by two largest, most sophisticated Cunard ships. Make over the limit of 26 September 1934, had been scraped off the following year in Scotland.

Dinner of the evening, served in the Queen Mary 2 is the Britannia restaurant, was marked by White Zinfandel wine baby shrimp thermidor on walnut brioche, cob salad with smoked chicken and blue cheese dressing, roasted sea bass with Mediterranean vegetables and olive tapenade, bananas foster with rum ice Flambee with raisins and whipped cream and coffee.

Replacements Lusitania and Mauritania, much more, will prove a disparate pair: while it was the third consecutive year if it had been slower, while the other had been transferred from the fleet of the enemy, Germans.

Fourth day:

Interrupted in the middle of the Atlantic, with the black and the Leviathan, which follows the course of the Great circle 249 degrees voice, eating the sea gray-white and glistening in the spotlight with 21.7 knots appetite. Four seventy miles from the coast of Newfoundland, the ship has negotiated the 3549 meters in deep water, which covered 607 miles in 24 hours sailing from yesterday, now 1615 km away from Southampton. At the current 47 degrees, 34.066 ‘north latitude and 042 degrees, 00.754′ west longitude, was 1468 km in diameter.

External conditions are mild: the air temperature, 14 degrees, was a force-4 breeze from the southwest and low cloud, where the 989-mbar pressure. The sea, whose condition was low, was 12.7 degrees Celsius temperature.

If the triplet in the early 20th century Cunard liners could have sailed from the Queen Mary 2 in chronological order, Aquitaine would be dragged both the Lusitania and Mauritania, the third of the long, elegant, quad-channeled ships built by John Brown and Company of Clydebank.

The ship 45,647 tons with a length of 901 feet and a width of 97 feet, had been both larger and heavier than its two predecessors, resulting in a capacity of 3200 passengers. Launched April 21, 1913 began trial runs 13 months later, a top speed of 24 knots, and entered commercial service May 30, 1914 Liverpool-New York route.

Richly decorated, offered a long gallery that connects the main hall decorated with smoking in a series of garden furniture, carpet, Louis XVI style first class restaurant, a lounge with Palladian columns, which extends over two levels , and the pool first installed on a Cunard ship.

Late to the North Atlantic Ocean, Aquitaine had sailed on the outskirts of the Second World War and the government was required for military service as an armed merchant cruiser in August 1914 but because of its excessive size, was reintroduced as the forces in tank the following year. Analysis of the liner after the war, the ship returned to the role of civil society in August 1920, has changed its capacity to six years later, in 1916, when a major reconfiguration decrease in first-class passengers complementary 618-610, has increased the ability of the second class 614-950, and a sharp drop in third grade supplements for about three forths, 1998 640, in order to meet more closely the question for the class of passengers.

Once again reconfigured to a troop transport 7724 people during the Second World War, provided that the Aquitania eight years of military service, he has sailed 500,000 miles and carried more than 300,000 soldiers.

Arrived at Southampton on a ship in December 1949, multi-role ending 35 years of service who sailed about 3 million miles on 443 voyages. It was last Cunard quad-piped design.

Lunch, again the presence of the Queen Mary 2, was served in the Carvery, is one of the short positions of the king, and was involved in beef, Tikka Masala, rice, cauliflower and cheese sauce, and a double cake dark chocolate.

Although the Aquitaine is very long, mulitple-role, and successful career was over in 1949, he had, for the most part continued to work together, originally designed with two other Cunard transatlantic liners, despite the fact that the Lusitania had been destroyed almost immediately after entering the service. The third ship, however, not a plan emanated from Cunard given life by a builder on the Clyde, but instead of the enemy, which required replacement.

Tries to compete with the Cunard and White Star Line drawings, which now regularly practiced Atlantic Hamburg-America Line had laid the keel of a new breed of transatlantic liners, June 18, 1910, to be the largest capacity, more gross passenger ship ever built in weight. The specifications were for the moment staggering: measuring 919 meters long and 98 feet wide, was elongated, tri-channeled, 52 117 tons of the ship, who is appointed by the Imperator, driven by steam engines around four propeller blades power 8500-tons of coal nourishing two 69 – and 95-foot-long machine, respectively. Adaptation 908 first class, 972 second class, 942 third class passengers and 1,772 steerage class, Behemoth, driven by a rudder 90 tons, was baptized May 23, 1912 and entered commercial service 13 months later June 10 from Cuxhaven to New York with a stopover in Southampton.

The Imperator class appears first conservatory with palms and a double deck swimming pool.

Since the first service was top-heavy conditions indicated, together with her three funnels were reduced to nine feet in the fall of the retrofit.

Finally allowed to sail because of the atrocities of World War I German, the vessel was moored in Hamburg for four years until an agreement clearing war resulted in the transfer of Cunard in 1919 as compensation for German sank the Lusitania. Rebased in Southampton two years later, in April 1921, he was subjected to an initial period of rehabilitation during which its technology engine had been replaced by coal oil, and it was reconfigured with 972, 630, 606 and 515 first, second, third and tourists respectively. Renamed Berengaria, the ship joined the Mauretania and Aquitania, Cunard’s weekly transatlantic service operations.

Although initially intended to continue operating until 1940, its antiquated wiring system, which resulted in the persistence of fire on board, had prevented his longevity of service, leaving only Aquitaine Mauritania temporarily until a new Cunard liners generation offer twice the tonnage of existing designs, could enter service. This vessel, of course, bore the name of the current: the Queen Mary.

The dinner, served in the restaurant La Piazza on board the (current), Queen Mary 2, were included in the green salad with ranch sauce, artichoke hearts, vegetarian moussaka, pasta, onions, mushrooms, black olives, garlic and sauce red tomato, tiramisu and coffee.

Twilight could be more accurately assessed through the deck with his Queen Mary I of line reminiscent of chairs and even the sea, instead of heaven. The first, a reflection of the latter, there appeared a deep blue, reflecting the temporal brightness of the sky at sunset, when the mountain formations whites had separate clusters, creating a blue space. Then quickly switch to a dark blue and, momentarily, a bleak winter cold, gray, conditions in the environment of many transatlantic crossings as soon as the black clouds, puffy gathered in a tight mosaic, coherent, which makes difficult, even for a moment in the sun. Merging dimensions with the ocean, the amorphous zero referenceless cacoon floating city until visibility was no more than ten feet of two of its sides. Two souls, well dressed, braved the strong wind storm, as they tried, backed by force, to cross the bridge.

This was the life of the crossing of the Atlantic.

When the day is limited to the boundary line of midnight, the ship crossed the basin of the Grand Banks of Newfoundland, Newfoundland and efficient, was the North American continent. Two days of steaming remained before it arrived at the terminal, the Port of New York.