Cruise ship Celebrity Silhouette leaves the shipyard in Papenburg, where she was built and is floated backwards to the sea.

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Cruise ship Celebrity Silhouette leaves the shipyard in Papenburg, where she was built. The ship has to leave the shipyard via a narrow lock gate and is then pulled backwards down the river Ems where she must negotiate several tight bends and a dismantled railway bridge before reaching the sea.

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Size: 4366px × 2911px
Location: Papenburg Germany Europe
Photo credit: © Simon Brooke-Webb / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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