Correction: December 14, 2003, Sunday An article on Nov. 16 about a fatal gangway collapse on the Queen Mary 2 at St.-Nazaire in western France referred imprecisely to the ship's ranking.
The gangway collapse in St.-Nazaire, France, that killed 15 people who were touring the Queen Mary 2 is not expected to delay the ship's inaugural voyage on Jan . 12 a spokeswoman for the owner, the Cunard Line, said last week.
PAGE 28 13 Die in Gangway Collapse A gangway collapsed as construction workers' families and friends were visiting the new liner Queen Mary 2 at a French shipyard, killing 13.
In November, a gangway collapsed while the ship was in dry dock in France, killing 12 people.
The temporary gangway collapsed during tours of the ship for family and friends of the workers who built the vessel, which is more than 1,130 feet long.
The occasion was tainted by an accident last month in which 15 people died when a gangway collapsed as they boarded the vessel.
Rescue workers toiled into the night, carrying off the dead and the burned and the wounded. 1 Fatal Accident on Queen Mary 2 Thirteen people died and about 32 were injured in an accident on the Queen Mary 2, the world's biggest and costliest cruise ship, when a dockside gangway collapsed at Saint-Nazaire in western France, where finishing touches were being made on the cruise liner.
The final stages of construction were marred by a fatal accident on 15 November 2003, when a gangway collapsed under a group of shipyard workers and their relatives who had been invited to visit the vessel.
A shipyard official, Philippe Kasse, said about 50 people were on the gangway when it collapsed, most of them family members and children of the shipyard workers.
On November 15 , 2003 while the QM 2 was still in the shipyard at Saint-Nazaire, in Brittany, where it was being built, a gangway, bearing fifty people, collapsed, throwing some of them fifty feet to the concrete bed of the drydock.
An investigation later established that the collapse of the gangway had been caused by a subcontractor cutting through the gangway's structure during refurbishment work.
