Rhine River Cruise Ship Crash

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Rhine river cruise ship crash. More recently in September of 2016 the MS Swiss Crystal river cruise ship collided with a highway bridge on the Rhine river near Duisburg Germany injuring 30 passengers. Explore fairytale castles and vineyards along the riverbanks. As has been suspected for some time luxury German riverboat cruise liner Peter Deilmann Riverboat Cruises Peter Deilmann Flußkreuzfahrten is going out of business at the.

In other river cruise news Avalon Waterways rolled out a new Storyteller Series of cruises hosted by international bestselling authors and a chart-topping musician. The accident on the Viking Freya occurred in darkness on Sunday morning on the Rhine-Main-Danube Canal. The accident reportedly occurred at 130 AM.

Float through lush wine regions to the timeless town of Cologne. French and German policemen inspect a cruise ship which crashed on a pontoon on the Rhine river near Gerstheim eastern France on October 1 2013. Glide through countries rich in history and spellbinding beauty.

The cruise ships bow was. On March 21 2019 the Scylla Edelweiss experienced an electrical fire and collided with a cargo ship the Forenso on the Waal River in the Netherlands. It resulted in over 100 with minor injuries and 4 transported by an ambulance to the hospital.

Guests will have ample opportunity to taste the local grape as the vineyards bring in the local harvest and will be. Sagas brand-new river cruise ship Spirit of the Rhine has departed on its inaugural 13-night cruise from Trier and will take in the beautiful Moselle valley and Roman wine towns along the way such as Bernkastel Traben-Trarbach and Piesport. Having crashed down from the Swiss mountains and the Middle Rhine here the river gently drifts to its final point flowing through flatlands of wonderful flower filled meadows past lazy windmills and sleepy.

Most Rhine River cruises last a week and ply between Basel and Amsterdam. Cruise and discover the sights sounds and flavours of Europe. But thats not all the collision caused a subsequent crash when the Bragi was rear ended by a small cargo ship.