MASSIVE CROWD SEES OFF WORLD’S LARGEST CRUISE SHIP IN FRANCE WATCH VIDEO NEWS

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TENS of thousands of people have turned out in France to see off the world’s biggest-ever cruise ship, the 120,000-tonne Harmony of the Seas, as it set sail for the first time.At 66 metres, it is the widest cruise ship ever built, while its 362-metre length makes it 50 metres longer than the height of the Eiffel Tower.As the massive boat pulled away from a shipyard in Saint-Nazaire, where it was built on France’s Atlantic shore, some 70,000 people watched from along the coast, local authorities said. -