Mews Notes from. Seven Mile Beach M'Elien Rowland 368-2294

By the time you read this your scribe and her spouse will be homeward bound from the trip of a lifetime. No strangers to ships or boats, we are still awed by the vast areas on this vessel. The Queen Elizabeth II (rechristened the Welcome for the voyage) is sailing to Philadelphia for the first time, commemorating William Penn’s first landing in the city 300 years * ago. Named the Century IV cruise, the trip should have everything one could ask plus a lot more. The flagship of the famous Cunard Line staggers the imagination. THIRTEEN STORIES high she rs too tall to get under the Ben Franklin Bridge, one-fifth of a mile long, she can carry 1,800 passengers plus a crew of 1,000. Each of the 900 staterooms has a private bath or shower, there are four luxurious dining rooms, six bars, two nightclubs, a discotheque, full gymnasium with sauna, jogging track, movie theater, a gambling casino, shopping mall, two libraries, thirteen elevators, and you can even take Tabby or Fido since there are excellent kennels available. Information to boating enthusiasts is that each propeller weights 31 tons and total weight of the ship is 66,861 tons. Bay and Harbor Pilots, whose names have not yet been disclosed, will board the QE II at Lewes, Dela. at 6 a.m..

April 25, if me schedule holds, and from "there on their decisions outweight even the captain’s. We will dock at Packer Ave. Terminal and (this will be the most exciting part of the trip for us), the Queen will be turned 180 degrees (in what will seem a little bitty river) and back alongside the dock. CRUSING LIP Delaware Bay without the nagging fear of a west wind will be a wonderful experience for us (forget the editorial we). I have had too many uncomfortable crossing of that bay. Each landing will be decorated in a welcoming manned and receive a blast of recognition from the mighty vessel’s horn as it passes a port. Packer Ave. Terminal will be transformed for the occasion. Renamed (at least temporarily), International Terminal, it will be festooned with flags of all nations, there will be an amphitheater to accommodate more than 200,000 'spectators, yards and yards of bunting, brass bands, and decorating murals created by Delaware Valley School children. THE SHIP will be accompanied up the river by U.S. Coast Guard cutters, Navy vessels and a flotilla of Philadelphia's firefighting boats. Historians will be most interested by the fact that the trip will encompass five days whereas Penn’s voyage,Tising substantially

the same route, took two months! There will be any number of celebrities aboard (including at least six Stone Harborites) and lots of dignitaries to welcome us home. Post Cards VILLAS William Schilling will give a program on post cards at the next meeting of the Cape Stamp Club 2 p.m.April 25 in the Lower Township Rec Center here.

MCBRIDGE-LOMBARDO

Wedding In October Mr. and Mrs. Vincent F. McBride of Philadelphia have announced the forthcoming marriage of their daughter Kathleen to Donald Lombardo, a Lower Township police officer. The wedding is to be Oct. 2, a graduate of Archbishop Ryan in Philadelphia, she is secretary for Bayshore Woods, North Cape May. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Dominic Lombardo of Lake Worth. Fla.

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