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Article: Royal Caribbean Names World's Largest Cruise Ship 'Voyager Of The Seas'
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- PR Newswire
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- June 9, 1998
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MIAMI, June 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Royal Caribbean International has chosen the name Voyager of the Seas for the largest cruise ship in the world -- a 136,000-ton vessel scheduled for its maiden voyage Nov. 7, 1999. Voyager of the Seas is the first of three 3,114-passenger Eagle-class ships, each with a contract price of around $500 million and now under construction in Turku, Finland.
Royal Caribbean's Voyager will navigate much closer to home than NASA's unmanned interplanetary probes Voyager I and Voyager 2, which flew past Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. The ship will sail seven-night western Caribbean cruises from Miami and call at Labadee, Hispaniola; ...