REMEMBERING TWO DAYS IN NOVEMBER – 15 YEARS AGO
November 15 and 19, 1992
By Theodore W. Scull

1) On the evening of November 15, 1992, Cunard’s Queen Elizabeth 2 is outbound in the North River
with the Empire State Building rising over her bow.

2-4) The QE2 majestically passes the World Trade Center’s twin towers and the cluster of office and apartment buildings that make up
Battery Park City near the tip of Lower Manhattan.

5) Four days later on the morning of November 19, 1992, World Ship Society members gather at the far end of Pier 88 at the
New York City Passenger Terminal in anticipation of a new arrival. Such access is no longer permitted today.

6) The new arrival is Norwegian Caribbean Line’s 39,217-ton Dreamward, making her maiden voyage into the port. Six years later she was sent to Lloydwerft shipyard in Bremerhaven and stretched. She reappeared as the 50,764-ton Norwegian Dream for a restyled Norwegian Cruise Line. As NCL rapidly modernizes its fleet, the Norwegian Dream is scheduled to bow out of the fleet in 2008. Her sister, Norwegian Wind (former Windward) passed to parent company in 2007 as the Superstar Aquarius.