She then sailed to London to embark passengers for an inaugural cruise.

And she's bound to encounter fellow club members again on the inaugural cruise of the Queen Mary 2 in early 2004.

Short but free Most shakedown cruises take place before the new ship's first paying passengers board for the inaugural cruise.

Some lines bring name performers on for shows, but these occasions are usually on holiday or inaugural cruises.

The inaugural cruise for Voyager's first paying passengers would sail from Nice to Venice on April 1.

The Diamondbacks inaugural cruise took place aboard the USS Randolph in July 1956.

On her inaugural cruise, with King Haakon on board, she ran aground in Oslofjord but this only delayed her entering service by a few days.

After a crane dredged the area, the American Queen went on to Pittsburgh and sailed June 27 on a 16-night inaugural cruise, with all cabins filled.

Except for the inaugural cruise, which departs on a Saturday, the three-night cruises will depart Thursday, and the four-night cruises on Sunday.

A day in Southampton on the Saga Pearl II, a new ship, just before it set off on its inaugural cruise to the Norwegian fjords.

While doing her inaugural cruise along the Eastern coast of USA and Canada up to Québec City, the Norwegian Sky got into trouble.

Rosalynn Carter, the wife of President Carter, smashed a bottle of champagne to christen the Sovereign and she and her husband sailed on the inaugural cruise.

Dec. 21 - Nine-night inaugural cruise from Fort Lauderdale, calling at Key West, Cozumel, Montego Bay and Grand Cayman.

Oct. 31 - Seven-night inaugural cruise from Fort Lauderdale, calling at Princess Cays, Ocho Rios, Grand Cayman and Cozumel.

Answering questions about the Burgundy region and Burgundy wines won her a place on the inaugural cruise of a new P&O England-France ferry, Pride of Burgundy.

PETER and Ivonne West of Chicago hardly cared when, on its inaugural cruise, the Crown Princess had to steer clear of a hurricane and through some Caribbean storms.

The company initiated a major refit at the Blohm + Voss repair shipyard in Hamburg, Germany, before her inaugural cruise on February 13, 2008 to Florida-her base for Caribbean cruising.

The seven-night inaugural cruise on July 13 costs from £670 and departs Barcelona for Tunisia, Malta, Sicily, Civitavecchia (for Rome), Genoa and Marseilles before returning to Barcelona.

Up until then, "managing the press had traditionally been a matter of making sure the right people got free tickets on a new ship's inaugural cruise or disseminating fact sheets about the latest disco, specialty lounge or athletic facility."

Citing what it said were numerous telephone threats, including a bomb threat, Toronto-based Cuba Cruise Corporation recently announced an indefinite postponement of its inaugural cruise between Nassau and Havana on its 400-passenger Habana, scheduled for yesterday.

A couple of weeks earlier, the world's largest passenger ship, the Freedom of the Seas, had visited on its inaugural cruise, and Mr. Stabile had been one spectator among many who came to the river walk, the best publicly accessible view, to get a glimpse.

MAIDEN VOYAGES - The Empress of the North, a new 235-passenger American West Steamboat Company paddlewheeler, is offering discounted rates on its inaugural cruises to Canada and the Inside Passage of Alaska.

She set sail on her first inaugural cruise from Miami, Florida on 1 June 1980, a 7-day cruise with only two stops, one in Little San Salvador known as Great Stirrup Cay then followed by a stop in St. Thomas, USVI.