Alaska Cruise Ship Loses Power

District Court Judge H.

Alaska cruise ship loses power. As others have noted it was reported by the passengers to be VERY unpleasant as everything from refrigerators to toilets stops working when they lose electricity. They were several hundred miles from shore and two ocean going tugs were sent to tow the ship to port. A Windstar Cruises-owned ship with 350 people onboard became disabled in Buzzards Bay Massachusetts Friday afternoon September 7 after.

Southeast Alaska is hosting increasingly bigger cruise ships. Look at it this way. Various news outlets are reporting that a cruise ship turned back to port as it was sailing toward Ketchikan Alaska after the ship lost power as it headed on its way to the nations northernmost state.

Flooding engine room with Carbon. You call a tow truck. But the regions fleet of tugs remains the same size.

Enjoyed the strange sensation of being at sea on a powerless ocean liner at night in a choppy sea. The third would ban cruise ships over 100000 gross tons beginning in 2026. The first would ban cruise ships with over 250 passengers between 7 pm.

Not a cruise ship but I recall an instance where a very large container ship lost all power. A man has been arrested in connection to the murder of a woman aboard a cruise ship off the coast of Alaska police say in. Mystery over womans murder on Alaska cruise ship.

Well what happens if a car breaks down on the highway. Alaska-Bound Cruise Ship Loses All Power at Sea Forced to Turn Back to Port. The Viking Sky has 1300 passengers and crew -- and it would be an understatement to say they would all welcome getting off the boat.