The cruise ship MS Maud was returning to the UK from a 14 night time Northern Lights cruise when it was caught in a extreme storm within the North Sea. Throughout the storm, the ship was struck by a rogue wave, shattering the home windows on the bridge deck. The flooding of the bridge deck resulted in a brief lack of energy in addition to harm to the ship’s navigation techniques and radars. There have been additionally experiences of a lack of bridge steering management that was taken over by an engine room backup.
The 266 passengers and 131 crew members aboard the Maud are secure, based on the Danish Joint Rescue Coordination Centre.
The ship, owned and operated by cruise firm HX, a unit of Norway’s Hurtigruten Group. left Floroe in Norway on Thursday and was on account of arrive in Tilbury within the UK on Friday. The Maud is now being towed to Bremerhaven in Germany, Danish authorities mentioned.
A spokesperson for the Danish Joint Rescue Coordination Centre mentioned “An Esvagt ship is towing it slowly in direction of Bremerhaven in Germany at round 8-9 knots,”
“I don’t suppose there may be any hazard to the ship now. If the captain thought so, he would have requested to be evacuated which he hasn’t,” the rescue centre spokesperson mentioned.
The realm was hit by a storm late on Thursday with hurricane-force gusts blowing from the northwest that had been forecast to proceed on Friday, the Danish Meteorological Institute mentioned.
Because of David Rye for contributing to this publish.
