The Brooklyn Bridge, which opened in 1883, has a nearly 490m main span that is supported by two masonry towers. More than 100,000 vehicles and an estimated 32,000 pedestrians cross every day, according to the city’s transportation department, and its walkway is a major tourist attraction.
The Cuauhtemoc – about 90.5m long and 12m wide, according to the Mexican Navy – sailed for the first time in 1982.
Each year, it sets out at the end of classes at the naval military school to finish cadets’ training. This year it left the Mexican port of Acapulco, on the Pacific coast, on Apr 6 with 277 people onboard, the Navy said then.
The Mexican consulate said on X on May 13 that the Cuauhtemoc, also called the Ambassador and Knight of the Seas, arrived that day and docked at pier 17. It invited people to visit it through May 17.
The ship was scheduled to visit 22 ports in 15 nations, including Kingston, Jamaica; Havana, Cuba; Cozumel, Mexico; and New York.
It had also planned to go to Reykjavik, Iceland; Bordeaux, Saint Malo and Dunkirk, France; and Aberdeen, Scotland, among others, for a total of 254 days, 170 of them at sea.
