Cruises
More Carnival woes at sea
Mar 15, 2013 09:14 EDT
Yet another Carnival cruise ship is having mechanical problems, the third in a little over a month.
Problem hits third Carnival cruise ship
Mar 15, 2013 06:41 EDT
Yet another Carnival cruise ship is having mechanical problems at sea, the third in a month, US media reported Friday.
Europe's largest cruise ship makes first voyage
Mar 14, 2013 14:59 EDT
Europe's largest cruise ship the MSC Preziosa -- a behemoth longer than the Eiffel Tower -- cast off on its first voyage Thursday, from Saint-Nazaire in western France to the southern port of Marseille.
Carnival cruise passengers to fly home after fault on ship
Mar 14, 2013 11:38 EDT
Cruise operator Carnival said Thursday it was arranging to fly as many as 4,300 passengers home after the Carnival Dream moored for repairs in the Dutch Caribbean island of St Maarten.
Carnival Cruise ship moors for repairs amid complaints
Mar 14, 2013 11:00 EDT
A Carnival Cruise ship was moored in St Maarten for repairs Thursday with a boatload of passengers, the US Coast Guard said, a month after a hellish ordeal aboard another of its ocean liners.
Abandoned Russian ship located 2,400 km from Ireland
Feb 21, 2013 14:27 EST
A Russian cruise ship abandoned and adrift in the North Atlantic has been located about 2,400 kilometers off the west coast of Ireland, according to a US intelligence agency.
Russian ship adrift in Atlantic an 'environmental hazard'
Feb 20, 2013 11:49 EST
The Lyubov Orlova, a Russian-built cruise ship adrift in the Atlantic after a failed bid to tow it to a scrapyard, poses an "imminent" environmental threat, a French green group warned Wednesday.
Emphatic Celtic end Dundee United run
Feb 16, 2013 12:45 EST
Kris Commons and Anthony Stokes grabbed a pair apiece as Celtic came from behind to cruise to a 6-2 win over Dundee United at Parkhead on Saturday.
Carnival cruise line faces new fiasco
Feb 16, 2013 11:10 EST
A year after the tragic Costa Concordia shipwreck, cruise industry leader Carnival faces a new public relations fiasco that reveals the downsides of the sector's recent high-speed growth.
US cruise ship passengers' parting gift: bathrobes
Feb 15, 2013 22:00 EST
The 4,000-plus exhausted passengers who lived a hellish four-day ordeal aboard the powerless and drifting Carnival Triumph cruise ship won't be left completely empty handed.
Crippled US ship comes ashore after hellish cruise
Feb 15, 2013 04:12 EST
Exhausted passengers who spent four days adrift in the Gulf of Mexico with no power and few working restrooms streamed off a stricken Carnival cruise ship.
Crippled cruise ship arrives at US port
Feb 14, 2013 23:29 EST
The stricken Carnival cruise ship Triumph arrived back in port, ending a nightmarish ocean voyage for some 4,000 desperate passengers and crew after it lost power over the weekend.
Desperation on board as cruise ship towed to port
Feb 14, 2013 17:40 EST
An operation to tow a disabled cruise ship packed with desperate passengers back to the United States was again delayed on Thursday when one of the cables attaching it to a flotilla of tugs snapped.
Conditions on stricken cruise ship described as awful
Feb 14, 2013 10:44 EST
Passengers on a stricken cruise ship in the Gulf of Mexico are enduring a nightmare after days without power, waiting hours for sparse meals and relieving themselves in plastic bags, one said Thursday.
Disabled cruise ship had earlier mechanical woes
Feb 13, 2013 17:44 EST
A cruise ship that lost power in the Gulf of Mexico, trapping more than 4,000 people aboard, had already suffered electrical problems as recently as a few weeks ago, its operator Carnival said Wednesday.
Disabled cruise ship with 4,200 aboard to head for US port
Feb 12, 2013 21:11 EST
A cruise ship packed with 4,200 travelers was adrift in the Gulf of Mexico for a third day waiting to be towed into the US port of Mobile, Alabama, a company spokesman said.
Cruise ship with 4,200 aboard adrift near Mexico
Feb 11, 2013 14:00 EST
A US cruise ship with more than 4,200 people aboard was adrift for a second day Monday off the coast of Mexico after an engine room fire crippled it, the US Coast Guard confirmed.
Rescued French sailor in Australia, tired but in "good form"
Jan 21, 2013 19:56 EST
A French sailor Tuesday walked off the cruise ship that saved him after he spent three days adrift in a life-raft in the remote Southern Ocean, smiling and assisted by his rescuers.
Ship carrying rescued French sailor arrives in Australia
Jan 21, 2013 17:44 EST
An Antarctic cruise ship that plucked a French sailor from the ocean after he spent three days adrift in high seas docked in Hobart Tuesday to return the yachtsman to dry land.
Rescue skipper tells of cheers for stranded French sailor
Jan 21, 2013 02:12 EST
The captain of a cruise ship spoke on Monday of the dramatic rescue of a Frenchman adrift on a life-raft in huge seas, and the cheers from passengers when he was hauled safely on board.
