'Celebrity Solstice' the largest ever passenger ship, dwarfs all that stands next to it, making the thousands of spectators which came to see it's launch look little more than ants as they waved the graceful ship out of the port.
The 315m-long ship is so wide it barely squeezed out of the Papenberg watergates, but ably helped by two tug-boats it escaped onto the North sea, where it will head to Denmark.
She is one of five Solstice ships launching between now and 2012, and can carry nearly 3,000 passengers.
And, after thousands of years, landlubbers might be able to escape their phobia of the sea... This cruiser is the first one to boast an authentic grass lawn on its top deck.
(Daily Mail)