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P&O Cruises ship collides with oil tanker in Spain

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A P&O cruise ship with thousands of passengers on board collided with an oil tanker off the coast of Palma de Mallorca in Spain on Sunday, injuring a small number of people. "A loud crash came from the bar and the door flung open with people running in," he told the outlet. "Within seconds there was more crashing followed by chaos as people were trying to escape the onslaught of wind and rain." A P&O cruise ship carrying thousands of British holidaymakers has crashed into an oil tanker off the coast of Palma in Mallorca after it snapped its moorings. Over the summer, nearly six ships have broken free in Europe during strong winds and thunderstorms. Thankfully, the crash only caused minimal damage to the ship and to the pier.

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The area saw strong thunderstorms beginning in the late morning on Sunday, with reported wind gusts between 60 and 70 miles per hour, according to AccuWeather. Mallorca had been experiencing winds of 75mph and torrential rains, which caused sun loungers to be blown into the air. An amber weather alert was in place across the whole of the island and had been extended until midnight on Sunday. At the time of the incident, Mallorca was already on an amber weather alert due to extreme winds and torrential rains. According to the Diario de Mallorca, the hull of the tanker was hit, without causing a spill into the sea. The luxury cruise ship did not suffer any damage that could call into question its navigation.

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“A few individuals have sustained minor injuries and are currently being attended to by our onboard medical team,” said the spokesperson. Poor weather and gusty winds can be a hazard to docked cruise ships, causing lines to break and ships to drift. The P&O Cruises ship Britannia broke free from mooring lines on Sunday morning, August 27, 2023 while docked in Palma de Mallorca, Spain during a sudden storm.

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Celestyal Journey’s final Aegean Sea cruise of the year will embark on October 19, 2024, which will be followed by a 14-day repositioning cruise beginning on October 26 from Piraeus-Athens, Greece, to Doha, Qatar. “We don’t expect to see an increase in these sorts of incidents,” said a spokesman. Any decision on whether to evacuate passengers comes down to the captain, who decides on a case-by-case basis. With so many craft traversing the world’s waterways, it’s not surprising that occasional incidents like this occur. Cruise information website CruiseMapper details these, and they make interesting reading. After the visit to Palma de Mallorca – an overnight stay from August – the ship is due to visit Gibraltar before returning to Southampton on Friday, September 1.

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“Following inspections, our third-party surveyor has confirmed that one of Britannia’s lifeboats has sustained structural issues and cannot be repaired onboard. Ricky Stubbs, a passenger, said he and his children had been about to disembark when the crash happened. As of Monday morning, the ship was docked in Palma to undergo technical inspections. Passenger Ricky Stubbs said he and his children were about to disembark at the time of the crash.

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In July, Norwegian Cruise Line’s Norwegian Prima broke free of rope moorings while docked in Zeebrugge, Belgium, also losing gangways in the incident. The current sailing is a 14-night Mediterranean cruise that departed from Southampton, UK on Friday, August 18, and has enjoyed calls on Cadiz, Cartagena, and Ibiza. Shortly after the collision, the ship’s captain ordered all guests to remain in their staterooms. He later confirmed that Britannia did suffer some damage to Deck 5, but that the ship’s structure and safety were not compromised. The ship will remain docked to allow a technical team to make an assessment of the damage, according to the statement.

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“It’s very calm and relaxed onboard now and we are just redocking to collect the passengers whom were off the ship for the duration of the incident,” he said. Another passenger named Mark Beckwith told WalesOnline that the captain did “an amazingly calm job” with the crew on board. A video posted on X, formerly known as Twitter, showed the view from port as the Britannia's moorings appeared to snap while the ship was pulled away by winds. “We are so sorry but these extraordinary circumstances mean that the ship is required, by maritime regulation, to return to Southampton with a reduced number of people onboard. In December 2019, Carnival Cruise Line’s Carnival Legend and Carnival Glory had a bump while docking in Cozumel, with sudden wind gusts and strong water currents blamed. Just a few weeks before, Cunard’s ocean liner Queen Mary 2 had a narrow escape after breaking free from its moorings in the Italian port of Civitavecchia amid high winds.

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Ricky Stubbs, one of the passengers aboard, gave a play-by-play of the incident. In a report filed by The Guardian about the incident, he stated that a deafening crash echoed from the ship’s sunset bar as he and his children prepared to disembark. This was followed by a rush of people fleeing the impact and battling the fierce winds and rain. These sailings are unique, because rather than operating one cruise at a time, the round-trip sailings overlap, meaning guests embark and debark from various cruise ports while other sailings are still ongoing. For these cruises, guests are able to meet the ship in Kusadasi, Turkey; Heraklion, Crete Greece; Piraeus-Athens, Greece; or Thessaloniki, Greece.

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Adverse weather conditions, and particularly strong winds, are one of the biggest enemies of ships and frequently the cause or aggravating factor in such incidents, which typically occur as ships are manoeuvring in ports. However, as one of the lifeboats needed structural repairs, which could not be carried out onboard, the ship was required by maritime regulations to return to Southampton with a reduced number of passengers. A 300-metre-long tourist cruise ship moored in the Spanish port of Palma de Mallorca collided with an oil tanker on Sunday due to strong winds. The ship was carrying thousands of British tourists when it collided with an oil tanker on Sunday due to strong winds. One of the Britannia's lifeboats was damaged, meaning the cruise was required to return to Southampton with a "reduced number of people onboard," and some passengers and crew were told they had to leave the ship, per the statement. “Within minutes, the captain addressed us through the speakers, asking everyone to return to their rooms for safety reasons,” said Stubbs.

"A small number of people suffered minor injuries and are being treated by the ship's medical centre," a spokesman for P&O Cruises, which owns the Britannia cruise, said in a statement. The incident comes just weeks after Cunard Line’s Queen Mary 2 ship broke from its moorings in Italy due to strong winds this month. Norwegian Cruise Line’s Norwegian Prima was also blown from its mooring ropes due to unexpectedly strong side winds in Belgium earlier this summer. To evaluate the extent of the damage, the ship will remain docked in Palma de Mallorca, offering onboard entertainment and activities to the passengers in the meantime.

Some damage also occurred to at least one of Britannia‘s lifeboats, and guests onboard the ship have reported seeing debris in the water nearby. “A loud crash came from the bar and the door flung open with people running in. Within seconds there was more crashing followed by chaos as people were trying to escape the onslaught of wind and rain.

The Britannia cost £473 million ($596 million) and can carry up to 3,647 passengers. The Britannia left Southampton on Aug. 18 to set sail for the Mediterranean, with stops in Cadiz and Ibiza, and was supposed to leave Mallorca on Sunday afternoon. "To allow our technical teams to carry out an assessment, Britannia will remain in Palma de Mallorca this evening, with entertainment and activities planned on board." "It was panic stations, I was bawling my eyes out," she said, per the outlet. "We went out onto our balcony and could see debris in the ocean and all the damage to the side of the boat and our lifeboat." The £473m ship, which entered service in 2015, is the flagship of the P&O fleet.

Cruise Hive was established back in 2008 and among the earliest blogs in the industry. Since the start, it's been our aim to provide the latest cruise news covering all the major cruise lines. We make sure cruisers are fully prepared for their cruise vacation with tips on ships and ports.Millions of travelers rely on Cruise Hive in the United States, Europe, Australia, and around the world. During the sudden storm, steady winds of approximately 23 miles per hour (37 kilometers per hour) were recorded in the area, with wind gusts as high as 59 mph (95 kph). The Britannia has capacity to carry 3,647 passengers and it was “close to capacity” Sunday when a storm came brewing off the coast of Palma de Mallorca. Gale-force winds snapped the $601.9 million vessel’s mooring and propelled it into the tanker.

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