Instead, it used two gangways to disembark troops from both sides of the bow (see photograph).
One long horn, and three short ones, meant the gangway was pulled and the ship was backing out.
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.
About two hours later, 42-year-old Dwayne Duckworth was struck multiple times when a group of three men approached him in a gangway around 2 20 a.m. in the 2000 block of West 70th Place in West Englewood, the Chicago Sun-Times reports.
Dropping anchor in South Georgia's Bay of Isles, we filed off the gangway into eight-man Zodiac boats.
They were packed six deep in the gangway and, after being cleared from the steps, 12 deep on the approach to the court.
Hundreds of Bayern fans boycotted the first five minutes, choosing instead to wait in the gangways while banners stood in their place, reading "£64 a ticket, but without fans football is nothing".
The Stadium looked full at three o'clock, with streams of people steadily pouring up the gangway and finding room somewhere.
Television images showed Mr. Hollande waiting as the gangway lowered and shaking the hands of the first three men down: Marc Féret, 47, hidden beneath a scarf, beard and winter hat; Pierre Legrand, 28, his face blank; and Thierry Dol, 32, tall and beaming.
McNerney was 21 when three men wanted for the shooting death of a New Mexico state police officer ran up the gangway of TWA Flight 106 as it left the state for Chicago with 150 passengers.
