On a foggy Sunday afternoon, the QM2 sails under the Golden Gate Bridge with 27 ft. clearance.
Costing over eight-hundred million dollars to build, measuring four city blocks long, larger than the statue of liberty, and able to accommodate twenty-six hundred passengers and thirteen hundred staff members; the ship itself is the largest, broadest, and tallest and most expensive liner ever built, and appropriately a queen of the sea in her own right.
The San Francisco visit is one of the riskiest passages in modern maritime history and a pit stop to pick up 150 tons of food. QM2 has traveled 14,145 miles to San Francisco from Fort Lauderdale, Fla. around South America’s Cape Horn on its round the world cruise.