Fire Aboard North Sea Ferry King Seaways

Reports came in last night about a fire aboard DFDS Seaways, King Seaways as she sailed her regular route from North Shields to Ijmuiden. My first thought lay with those onboard, you glimpse a headline regarding a ship being on fire and always fear the worst, then give the strong winds we are having in…

Norwegian Breakaway Float-Out

There are just 64 more days to go until Norwegian Cruise Line’s, Norwegian Breakaway, officially joins the fleet and this morning her float-out took place at roughly 7am at the Meyer Werft shipyard in Germany. The 145,000 gt cruise ship has a length overall of 324 m, and is 39.70 n wide, taking that into…

Fjords Cruise A Day On Board

Stepping out onto the balcony we were greeted this morning with a much more cosmopolitan city-scape that was Bergen. The weather was noticeably colder and again unfortunately grey and wet.  We later learned that Bergen proclaims to be the wettest place in Europe and it was certainly living up to that title! We were docked…