The world’s largest ocean liner docked in Brooklyn on Sunday with precious cargo — an infant born aboard.
A doctor on the famed Queen Mary 2 sprang into action to deliver the baby boy — appropriately named Benjamin Brooklyn — on Saturday night, before the ship pulled into Red Hook on Sunday morning.
The ship was near the end of its trans-Atlantic voyage from Southhampton, England, when a German passenger’s water broke, according to her brother, who was also aboard the 2,620-passenger vessel.
“She turned to me and said, ‘It’s starting!’” said the man, who declined to give his name and only identified his sister as Johanna.
He rushed her to the ship’s small hospital, where a doctor took charge as the ship neared Brooklyn.
The baby was supposed to be due in three weeks, but just couldn’t wait, he said.
Johanna was rushed to New York Methodist Hospital with the infant after arriving at the Red Hook Cruise Terminal around 6 a.m. Sunday, the FDNY said.
“I am doing well, and the baby is incredibly healthy. I am also thankful how good the people of New York were to us,” Johanna said.
Benjamin is her third child and first boy, she said.
His uncle added, “[The child] was born in American territory — so that makes him an American boy.
“The captain told me it’s the first time a baby has ever been born on the Queen Mary 2!”
Johanna had planned to travel with her brother and husband, Christian, to Canada after arriving in New York. They will now likely stay in the city to recoup.
Red Hook was the massive ocean liner’s first stop on a four-month-long, 41,000-mile, around-the-world journey.
Additional reporting by Natalie O’Neill