Queen Victoria in the BBC News today

[bluemarble]

Here's an article from the BBC mentioning Queen Victoria offered assistance to a P&O ferry which was adrift off the coast of Larne.

P&O ferry European Causeway adrift off coast of Larne

 

Quoting from the article:

"It is understood the Queen Victoria cruise ship, en route to Belfast for a refit, is also on site, along with a coastguard helicopter from Prestwick."

 

A review of QV's track from marinetraffic reveals she did divert and was on the scene off Larne for a few minutes around 3:00pm. She is now back on her way and is approaching Belfast.

Edited April 26, 2022 by bluemarble

[Host Hattie]

Thanks @bluemarble, P&O Ferries have been in the news a lot recently so today's ferry problem attracted more attention than it would in normal circumstances.

Hopefully everyone is OK

[sogne]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10757161/Agency-staff-refuse-work-P-O-Ferry-lost-power-drifted-Irish-Sea.html n 

 

seems we have been sailing on a luxury ferry all these years     

 

check picture captions

[Host Hattie]

Pretty much what you'd expect from that source !

[seashanty62]

Re - The refit. Does anyone know what they are planning to do to QV. Im on its first cruise back in service in a couple of months !

[2BACRUISER]

7 hours ago, seashanty62 said:

Re - The refit. Does anyone know what they are planning to do to QV. Im on its first cruise back in service in a couple of months !

She's had most of her topsidexwork done on the Tyne she's in Belfast fir a dry Dock to check her undercarriage, scrape off her collection of crustaceans and make sure she's safe to continue sailing. Bit like an MOT. Lol 

[seashanty62]

Oh. I was hoping they might have refreshed the inside a bit !

 

Thanks

[canoncruiser]

Hey Ho,

 

I’ve just been in Belfast and there was QV in dry dock at Harland & Wolfe. All her boats were off and there were several cranes above-but there was no activity that I could see- it was Bank Holiday. Spent all my time at the Titanic Museum-it is wonderful.😊