One ship's hotel manager told us
maiden voyages draw inaugural junkies for oddball reasons--such as those who simply love to sleep on spanking new bed sheets or dine on dinnerware no one has touched before.
Maiden voyages: pros & cons. (Cruise Views)
The Aquitania on her
maiden voyage from Liverpool to New York in 1914
A floating palace and an ocean greyhound; THE MAURETANIA HELD THE COVETED BLUE RIBAND FOR 20 YEARS
While he would give nothing away about the extent of his investment in the project, Palmer said that he has received offers of up to USD1m per ticket for passage on the ship's
maiden voyage.
-Australian shipping company to launch Titanic II
Mr Vittoria, former head of car hire firm Avis, is today taking Mirabella on its
maiden voyage heading for Naples - the home town of his wife Luciana.
Maiden voyage for pounds 30m super yacht
The ship went down in the Atlantic on its
maiden voyage from Southampton to New York after hitting an iceberg.
TITANIC BID SUNK
Queen Victoria was last in Liverpool on her
maiden voyage in 2010.
Victoria to spend two days in city; Cunard liner to help mark Aquitania centenary
The liner set off on its
maiden voyage on April 10, 1912 - but of course, it was to be its only voyage after it got into difficulties after it hit that fateful iceberg.
Just why did the 'unsinkable' sink? Documentary
The newest ship in Saga's fleet should have been setting out on her
maiden voyage - a three-week cruise to Venice, Dubrovnik and the Adriatic - next Monday.
CRUISE NEWS
German airline Lufthansa announced on Wednesday that its new Airbus A380 aircraft made its
maiden voyage from Toulouse over the south of France on Tuesday.
New Lufthansa A380 makes maiden flight from Toulouse
HISTORY fans will get the chance to retrace the Titanic's doomed
maiden voyage on a centenary cruise.
Titanic cruise launched
A LUXURY British cruise ship sold every place on its
maiden voyage within half an hour of going on sale - despite charging up to pounds 15,799 per person.
New ship a sell-out
She was the Chessington and she made Thames history when she passed under 17 bridges across the river during her
maiden voyage from the Tyne, carrying 2,500 tons of coal.
Giant collier helped keep London lit
1838: Isambard Kingdom Brunel's steamship Great Western began her
maiden voyage to New York: 'He'll have us going to the moon yet' muttered one of Brunel's directors, when the great engineer suggested that they constructed a railway that went all the way from Britain to New York, calling the link Great Western.
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The Military Traffic Management Command moved a pair of the vessels from Norfolk, Va., to Bremerhaven, Germany, on the
maiden voyage of the Tamesis, of the Wallenius Lines.
Fast boat ..
It aims to move beyond re-telling the tale of that fateful
maiden voyage in 1912, and unravel some previously untold, more unusual strands of the story.
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