SEA - The ship Harmony of the Seas, the world's biggest cruise ship, departed Sunday, May 15 at noon the cradle of Saint-Nazaire to Southampton, before tens of thousands of spectators.
This behemoth 362 meters long , 66 m wide and 72 m high, the equivalent of a 20-storey building, took off around 1:45 p.m., assisted by two tugs, followed from the coast near by 70,000 people, according to the municipality, but also at sea by dozens of boats of all types, and in the air.
Moored in the basin C the port of Saint-Nazaire, the giant of the sea, built in shipyards STX France, began his maneuver to 13h, at high tide. After ringing once its foghorn, he came out in reverse, then spun in the channel about twenty minutes later, towards the ocean.
On the pier, spectators watched the show in an almost religious silence, waving white handkerchiefs or out their cameras to capture the moment, "wonderful, unique, moving," as Peter felt, came from Nantes to "see for the first time a starting liner ".
As the ship moves away off, Evelyne could not hold back a tear. "He's gone. We saw it evolve, grow for three years. It is like a child who goes" slides the Saint-Nazaire.
The Harmony of the Seas, which can accommodate up to 6360 passengers on board and 2,100 crew members, was officially presented Thursday to the owner, the American owner Royal Caribbean International (RCI), a subsidiary of RCCL group which operates already 24 vessels worldwide.
After an inaugural cruise from Southampton, the ship flying the flag of the Bahamas should then reach its home port, Barcelona, to begin its cruises of one week in the Mediterranean, where it will operate until the end of October, before be repositioned in the Caribbean. It will notably in Marseille June 14 the .
STX France had torn December 2012 the contract of nearly one billion euros, after almost two years without control. Since then, the commands succeed for Saint-Nazaire shipyards, which must deliver eleven ships by 2026.
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