The Queen Mary's signature upscale restaurant, Sir Winston 's, is about to go under the knife. Planned updates to the restaurant named for Winston Churchill follow a recent change in management for the popular tourist attraction. We can...

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...an emphasis on local, seasonal produce, according to a statement by Delaware North Cos. Parks & Resorts, which took over management of the Queen Mary in late September. Menu and restaurant-decor changes are scheduled to be implemented by...

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...for money to be paid to his mother, Katherine , his three young children, and various charities. After a 2003 boiler explosion on the SS Norway at the Port of Miami, Norwegian Cruise Line paid more than $13 million to settle civil claims...

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...Adams' Death of Klinghoffer. Like Esther , Klinghoffer is an opera about Jews. It tells the story of the 1984 hijacking of the ocean liner Achille Lauro by Palestinian extremists, who eventually killed one of their Jewish-American hostages. As...

In this article: Esther, Hugo Weisgall, Don Giovanni, John Adams, Ghosts of Versailles, Philip Glass, and Culpability

...cookbooks. Pierre was also a favorite on the lecture circuit. He died in 1996 while giving a lecture and cooking demonstration on RMS Queen Elizabeth 2. Pierre came to the states in 1939 at the behest of the French government, doing...

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...Noah's Ark - and Noah had an excuse. The picture brought to my mind beautiful ships such as the United States , Normandy and the Queen Mary. Even the World War II Victory ships (my recollection is that they had three holds, each of which...

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The second RMS ''Laconia'' was a Cunard ocean liner built by Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson as a successor to the Laconia of 1911 to 1917. Like her predecessor, sunk during the First World War , this Laconia would also be destroyed by a...

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...the centuries the Solent has seen countless liners come and go; Mauretania, the ill-fated Titanic , Cunard's great transatlantic Queens, SS France , the legendary, Queen Elizabeth 2, and, more recently, Queen Mary 2 , Ventura and Grand Princess...

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...as the SS America (carrying this name three different times during her career), the USS West Point , the SS Australis , the SS Italis , the SS Noga , the SS Alferdoss , and the SS American Star. She served most notably in passenger service as the...

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...passengers, there was no escape, unless you felt like lowering one of the lifeboats. Both my mother's cruises were on the Cunard Line 's Queen Mary , which now stands at permanent anchor in the harbour at Long Beach , outside Los Angeles. It...

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... Dover sole that a friendly cook set aside from the captain's table during a year and a half he spent working on the luxury liner SS America. In contrast to my uncle, and the 70-plus ships he sailed on, mostly tankers, I've stayed on...

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...and had a clear naval aspect, but some civilian in nature, such as the exploration and sal-vage work on the sunken Soviet passenger liner Mikhail Lermontov in Port Gore , Marlborough Sounds , in March 1986. Interesting Fact By...

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...that one passenger had died from pneumonia en route to Canada from Europe. Less than two weeks after disaster struck the RMS Titanic in the North Atlantic , the Empress of Britain also stuck an iceberg on 26 April 1912; but the...

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MS '' Mikhail Lermontov '' was an ocean liner owned by the Soviet Union 's Baltic Shipping Company , built in 1972 by V.E.B. Mathias-Thesen Werft, Wismar , East Germany. She was later converted into a cruise ship. On February 16, 1986 she ran...

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...distinguished series of ships named after British monarchs. And like its four predecessors -- the Queen Mary , Queen Elizabeth, Queen Elizabeth 2 and Queen Mary 2 -- the new Queen brings a regal tone to the world of cruising. Rich woods,...

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..."American" or "Pioneer". In 1941, two Nazi spies, Franz Joseph Stigler and Erwin Wilheim Siegler , worked for US Lines as members of SS America ''s crew. While on the SS '' America , they obtained information about the movement of ships and...

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...the course of the Great War The wreck of a liner torpedoed in 1917 has been discovered. But who owns its GBP3m cargo, asks Cahal Milmo The RMS Laconia was a Cunard cruise liner commandeered by the government Britain is locked in a court...

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