NEW SHIP SETS SAIL ON FRIDAY.Byline: Staff and wire services VALENCIA - Four months after the attacks of Sept. 11 shattered the tourism industry, Valencia-based Princess Cruises Princess Cruises is an American cruise line, based out of Santa Clarita, California, that operates cruise ships also shares the same building with Cunard Line headquarters. It is one of the many cruise lines operated by the Carnival Corporation. will christen chris·ten tr.v. chris·tened, chris·ten·ing, chris·tens 1. a. To baptize into a Christian church. b. To give a name to at baptism. 2. a. the newest addition to its luxury liner fleet, the Star Princess The Star Princess is a Princess Cruises cruise ship. The Star Princess is a sister ship of the Grand Princess and the Golden Princess. An earlier ship of the same name is now operating as the Ocean Village. . The ceremony will take place Friday at an Italian shipyard operated by the company that built the Star, Fincantieri Cantieri Navali Italiani. Along with the traditional breaking of a champagne bottle against the ship, the dockside ceremony will feature Star Princess Cruise Director Paul O'Loughlin as master of ceremonies and will also include a flag-changing service as the ship replaces the Fincantieri flag with that of P&O Princess Cruises, a performance by The Scots Guards
The Scots Guards, form part of the Guards Division of the British Army, whose origins lie in the personal bodyguard of King Charles I of England and Band and a prayer from the shipyard's chaplain. P&O Princess Cruises Chairman Lord Sterling will also take part in the festivities fes·tiv·i·ty n. pl. fes·tiv·i·ties 1. A joyous feast, holiday, or celebration; a festival. 2. The pleasure, joy, and gaiety of a festival or celebration. 3. . After the ceremony, Star Princess will leave on a 15-day positioning voyage to Singapore, where she will depart on Feb. 13 for her inaugural sailing - a 26-day odyssey across the Pacific to Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. . Once in California, the ship will participate in a series of short preview cruises before beginning a regular season of round-trip seven-day Mexican Riviera voyages on March 16. For the summer season, the ship will be based in Alaska, sailing between Vancouver and Seward. Princess has rerouted some ships in the months since the terrorist attacks on the East Coast, bypassing some stops in the Mediterranean and concentrating on routes closer to home. The 2,600-passenger, 109,000-ton Star Princess will be the largest vessel ever to sail on the West Coast. The ship includes a wedding chapel and wedding-at-sea program, two specialty restaurants and three separate show lounges. She also sports a disco/observation lounge set high atop the ship and accessible only by a glass-enclosed, moving ``skywalk'' - as well as 24-hour AOL (A division of Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY, www.aol.com) The world's largest online information service with access to the Internet, e-mail, chat rooms and a variety of databases and services. Internet availability, a nine-hole putting green, a swim-against-the-current lap pool and an expanded children's and teen's center. |
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