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A 12-year-old boy has died after falling from the balcony of a cruise ship. The pre-teen was aboard Royal Caribbean’s Harmony of the Seas — which was en route to Galveston, Texas at the end of ...
A 12-year-old boy fell to his death from a balcony on a Royal Caribbean ship just before it docked in Texas on the final day of a weeklong cruise, according to reports.
A Virgin Voyages passenger died after falling from a balcony on the line's Valiant Lady ship, the cruise line said Monday.
The Williamson turn is an alternative manoeuvre used to bring a ship or boat under power back to a point it previously passed through, often for the purpose of recovering a casualty at sea. [ 1 ] [ 3 ] It was named for John Williamson, USNR , who used it in 1943 to recover a man who had fallen overboard.
Rhapsody of the Seas, shown in 2018. On March 21, 1998, Amy and her family boarded the cruise towards Curaçao. [2] [3] Prior to the time of the disappearance, Amy and her brother Brad decided to stay up late dancing at a Mardi Gras nightclub party on the ship and drinking alcohol with the ship's band, Blue Orchid.
A bridge wing is a narrow walkway extending from both sides of a pilothouse to the full width of a ship or slightly beyond, to allow bridge personnel a full view to aid in the maneuvering of the ship. [16] Officers use bridge wings when docking or maneuvering in locks and narrow waterways. Each bridge wing may be equipped with a console ...
A 72-year-old American man is reported to have fallen overboard from a cruise ship ahead of its arrival in San Francisco. The incident happened at around 6:50 a.m. on Monday, Dec. 1, on The Ruby ...
In the late 1950s and 1960s, ships such as Holland America Line's SS Rotterdam (1959), the French Line's SS France (1961), and Cunard Line's RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 (1969) were designed to serve the dual purposes of ocean liner during the northern hemisphere summer months and cruise ship in the winter, incorporating doors and baffles that could ...