We were one of the first to report that the Princess Cruises’ Royal Princess cruise ship lost power last weekend. Princess was cooperative telling us that the cruise ship lost power, and it quickly added that emergency generators supplied power for toilets and so forth, that the cruise ship and its guests were not in
Cruise Fever reports that Princess Cruises’ newest cruise ship, the Royal Princess, experienced a loss of power in the Mediterranean as the cruise ship was sailing between Mykonos and Naples. Here’s what Cruise Fever is saying:
The cruise ship lost power around 1:30 P.M. local time.
Emergency generators started.
Toilets and emergency services are functional.
USA TODAY and the Mirror newspaper in the U.K. report that Princess Cruises has canceled today’s sailing of the Sun Princess, citing a power problem.
The Sun Princess is an 18 year-old cruise ship which just had a $30 million make-over. It was scheduled to sail a 14-night voyage from Singapore to Freemantle
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The popular cruise fan site Cruise Critic is reporting that the Carnival Ecstasy’s return to Port Canaveral this morning was delayed due to a brief power failure last evening.
Cruise Critic states that the Ecstasy lost power for around 12 minutes while sailing back to Port Canaveral at the end of a five-night Bahamas
WTSP in Tampa reports on the plight of the Carnival Legend cruise ship which left last Sunday from the Port of Tampa under full power but will return limping home tomorrow.
There’s a problem with one of the cruise ship’s two propulsion pods that is substantially reducing the Legend’s speed.
Carnival canceled the ship’s port stop
With Carnival under a microscope, the cruise line continues to experience bad PR as yet another Carnival cruise ship experienced a mechanical failure.
The Chicago Tribune reports that last weekend, the Carnival Elation had to get a tugboat escort down the Mississippi River after a mechanical problem.
In the last 2 months, four of Carnival’s
Cruise List broke a story today about a power outage which occurred on Holland America Line’s Statendam cruise ship last Thursday.
The Cruise List blog explains that last Thursday evening his proprietary application which searches for cruise information on Twitter picked up a tweet about a “fuel pump explosion” that caused a “two hour Power Outage
A reader of Professor Ross Klein’s website Cruise Junkie states that the Sun Princess cruise ship lost power for a few hours last week.
The Princess Cruises ship was apparently at the end of a 104 day "world cruise," from Sydney Australia and back.
The Incident allegedly occurred around 4:30 in the morning of Tuesday
This was not the type of adventure the cruise passengers were looking for,
A cruise ship operated by an "adventure" travel operator was stranded in the South Atlantic on April 9th. The cruise ship experienced what is being described as either an engine failure or "propulsion difficulties" which reduced its speed to a capacity less
