Franklin Roosevelt devised the concept of Lend Lease, which provided aid to Britain and other nations in the early years of World War II, while on a two-week cruise through the Caribbean in December 1940.

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Miami-based Royal Caribbean Cruise is in the same boat as Carnival, trading in what appears to be severely overbought regions.

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The emergency, as she and other passengers would learn, was a fire that started in the rear of Royal Caribbean's Grandeur of the Seas cruise ship about 2:50 a.m.

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The big cruise ship operator has had big problems lately with a few troubled ships in the Caribbean.

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The husband of the 64-year-old Virginia woman found her dead in her cabin aboard Royal Caribbean cruise line's Enchantment of the Seas on Sunday, the last day of a weeklong cruise, the company said.

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Royal Caribbean also owns the largest cruise ships in the world, the Oasis of the Seas and the Allure of the Seas, which carry more than 6, 000 people apiece.

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In March, the Carnival Dream cut short a Caribbean cruise, with Carnival reporting that the ship's emergency generator failed.

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And this being the only ship on the route, none of the ports were swamped with thousands of other cruise passengers arriving for the day, which is often the case in the Caribbean, Mediterranean and Alaska.

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Now in its third year, the Cayamo Cruise is basically a concert at sea: a weeklong cruise through the Caribbean with a crew of musicians on board to provide entertainment.

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