Jewel of the Seas on her way out to sea

[Brandis]

I also had the understanding that this is only a temporary solution until the new cruise terminal is built...

I guess I will find out soon... :-)

Marc

[Globaliser]

[B]madforcruising[/B], thanks for those photos.

There are some more from yesterday's arrival on [url="http://www.schiffsphoto.de/HTM/Cruise/Jewel.htm"]this page[/url], which has been updated to include them.

All now duly added to my collection of [I]Jewel[/I] pictures!

[spajke]

It seems that the Jewel departed from a different part of the port this evening. I managed to save some photos from another webcam. Can somebody help me and tell me how you can include them in these messages.

[madforcruising]

Sorry Spajke, can´t help you on this one.
I tried to figure this out too.
I saw her too.

She left the Grasbrook terminal around 05:00pm
I saw her on the capsandiego webcam around 05:20pm and app. one hour later passing the
Welkomm Höft.

Thanks Globaliser for the additional photos.
I save them all.

First pics of the undocking of the Jewel of the Seas:
[url="http://community.webshots.com/album/125049819TVWuuS"]http://community.webshots.com/album/125049819TVWuuS[/url]

Jewel of the Seas left Meyerwerft Shipyard
See Photos of River Ems passage
[url="http://community.webshots.com/album/131001309cIkOdH"]http://community.webshots.com/album/131001309cIkOdH[/url]
Jewel of the Seas - 05/28/04 Scandinavia / Russia / Baltic
[img]http://escati.linkopp.net/cgi-bin/countdown.cgi?trgb=000000&srgb=00ff00&prgb=00bfff&cdt=2004;05;28;7;20;00&timezone=GMT+0100[/img]

Jewel of the Seas - 09/28/04 Canada / New England
[img]http://escati.linkopp.net/cgi-bin/countdown.cgi?trgb=000000&srgb=00ff00&prgb=00bfff&cdt=2004;09;28;16;00;00&timezone=GMT-0500[/img]


09/2003 - Legend of the Seas Hawaii
06/2003 - Norwegian Dawn Florida and Bahamas
2002 - MS Columbus - Cruise to nowhere
2001 - Grandeur of the Seas Mediterranean and Transatlantic
2000 - Splendour of the Seas Transatlantic
2000 - Viking Star on the Danube River
1999 - Vision of the Seas Panamacanal cruise
1998 - Vision of the Seas Transatlantic
1997 - Crystal Symphonie to Mexican Riviera
1996 - Delta Queen on the Mississippi
1995 - Legend of the Seas to Alaska

[madforcruising]

Hey Marc,

Only two more days for you. I´d like to say Bon Voyage. Enjoy your trip and I´m looking forward to your comments and hopefully pics when you are back.
BTW if you click on Globaliser´s last posted link there are some pics of the Jewel docked at the Grasbrook terminal and you can see some of the container now building the terminal.

Enjoy your trip !!!!

First pics of the undocking of the Jewel of the Seas:
[url="http://community.webshots.com/album/125049819TVWuuS"]http://community.webshots.com/album/125049819TVWuuS[/url]

Jewel of the Seas left Meyerwerft Shipyard
See Photos of River Ems passage
[url="http://community.webshots.com/album/131001309cIkOdH"]http://community.webshots.com/album/131001309cIkOdH[/url]
Jewel of the Seas - 05/28/04 Scandinavia / Russia / Baltic
[img]http://escati.linkopp.net/cgi-bin/countdown.cgi?trgb=000000&srgb=00ff00&prgb=00bfff&cdt=2004;05;28;7;20;00&timezone=GMT+0100[/img]

Jewel of the Seas - 09/28/04 Canada / New England
[img]http://escati.linkopp.net/cgi-bin/countdown.cgi?trgb=000000&srgb=00ff00&prgb=00bfff&cdt=2004;09;28;16;00;00&timezone=GMT-0500[/img]


09/2003 - Legend of the Seas Hawaii
06/2003 - Norwegian Dawn Florida and Bahamas
2002 - MS Columbus - Cruise to nowhere
2001 - Grandeur of the Seas Mediterranean and Transatlantic
2000 - Splendour of the Seas Transatlantic
2000 - Viking Star on the Danube River
1999 - Vision of the Seas Panamacanal cruise
1998 - Vision of the Seas Transatlantic
1997 - Crystal Symphonie to Mexican Riviera
1996 - Delta Queen on the Mississippi
1995 - Legend of the Seas to Alaska

[Globaliser]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by spajke:

Can somebody help me and tell me how you can include them in these messages.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>You need access to some webspace (you might try a site like webshots.com) and then upload the photos to that site. There should then be a URL for each photo, or maybe one to a page of photos, which you can post.

[Brandis]

Mad,

 

Thanks! Luggage is already packed and tomorrow evening, we go to the airport to check-in the luggage. Our plane leaves Zurich on wednesday at 8 AM, so we should be in Hamburg around 9.30. Before boarding at noon we do a harbour tour. Really looking forward to it! It's our first balcony cabin too... :-)

 

Marc

[Globaliser]

One more series of (small) photos - from a Norwegian news source. (It's the news source that first reported the Customs fiasco over the duty-free sales on board the 1 May 2004 Oslo-Oslo short cruise.)

[cruisingdoc]

Great pictures. Thanks for sharing! Sure does help pass the time as we wait for our cruise.

 

until the Jewel of the Seas New Year's Cruise

 

 

 

 

 

[Globaliser]

Just as I thought there could be no more "birth" photos, I discover a new site. I'm trying to keep these all on the same page, as I know that there is a cruiseclues.com link to this thread.

 

From southamptonships.com:-

Jewel's arrival from Oslo on 5 May

Her departure on the overnight junket post-naming ceremony, 7 May

Back in Southampton, preparing for her "maiden voyage" on 8 May

Her departure on her second "proper" cruise on 15 May, together with P&O's Aurora

 

If I may be forgiven:-

My review of the 1-3 May cruise

My photos from that cruise

[Globaliser]

Woo hoo! This thread survived!

[Globaliser]

... the Boston Globe publishes an article about her "birth":-

Meticulous making and painstaking launch of a cruise line gem

By David Arnold, Globe Correspondent | September 19, 2004

 

PAPENBURG, Germany -- When Jewel of the Seas prepared for its inaugural paddle to the sea last spring, whistles blew, dock lines slackened, thousands of cameras flashed from ashore, and the ship went nowhere.

 

For more than an hour, the behemoth just sat there in the comfy embrace of the Meyer Werft docks, coddled by a pair of tugboats in the late night rain of northern Germany.

 

Timing was critical. The Meyer Werft yard in Papenburg is 40 miles up the tidal Ems River from the North Sea. Only the peak high tides of the full or new moon allow enough water to spring free a 15-story ship that, put on end, would spire five floors higher than the John Hancock Tower.

 

Big boat, small river, and just 19 inches of clearance under the propellers in the best of circumstances. As one shipyard employee succinctly put it in German, ''This will be no time to hear 'oops' on the bridge."

 

...

(Remainder of article at above link.)

[goodml]

Thanks for the link Globaliser. We're anxiously waiting for our December voyage and every new little bit of info is greatly appreciated. Thanks also for being one of the posters that has provided the most info about the Jewel.