Biggest cruise ship gathering in Sydney Harbour

Five P&O shipsResidents of Sydney, Australia woke up to find not one, but five P&O ships in the harbor. The Pacific Dawn, Pacific Jewel and the Pacific Pearl as well as two new P&O ships, the Pacific Eden and Pacific Aria all joined up in the same location to welcome the two new ships into the fleet.

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Boreal evacuated after fire

Picture by Christian Bickel fingalo (Own work), License: [CC BY-SA 2.0 de], via Wikimedia Commons

Picture by Christian Bickel fingalo (Own work), License: [CC BY-SA 2.0 de], via Wikimedia Commons

The British military came to aid to the French cruise ship Le Boreal, currently sailing an Antarctica voyage and passing close to the Falkland islands. According to media reports the vessel issued a distress call shortly after 2am in the morning. A fire broke out in the engine room leaving the ship stranded and running risk of grounding on a reef.

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