Oriana capsizes
 

The ocean liner MV Oriana has capsized during a storm in the harbour of gibralter, the ocean liner of the 1960s was undergoing a refit which could have seen her return to passenger service as soon as the Queen Elizabeth 2 retires.

The vessel which had been towed to gibralter would have later been towed to fincantiari which was making preparations to refit the ship, how ever the ship arrived to early and was sent to gibralter and laid up.

The new owners of the old Oriana, Olympic cruises planned to renovate her for carribean cruises and would recieve all the nessasery safty equipment to make her sea worth.

However during the last nights storms over gibralter in which Oriana broke her moorings, seemed to have hamperd such plans, the oriana is no longer stable and lays on her starboard side half a mile from the pier in which she was moored at.

Plans are currently underway to salvage the ship but the damage caused by her rolling over and the damage recieved by the storm it is unknown wether she will ever return to sea or if she will end up in the breakers yard.

link, Kap?

the interblag knows nothing about this

Probs hasn't made it onto the interblag yet, Kap's got inside knowledge about commercial shipping.;)

Here's a pic of the girl in slightly happier times

http://www.maritimematters.com/images/oriana-vid8.jpg

ACTUALLY

Kap? Erm...not sure if me and you are on the same ship here...but if this is the Oriana I have on wiki...she was dismantled two years ago... ;)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Oriana_(1959)


Still a shame...nice looking ship.

You know, we've been having an absolutely huge glut of cruise ship mishaps. Boats catching fire, boats sinking, people leaving bomb threats, "boat crud" (a variety of several influenza infections that hit you at the same time -- anyone that's been on a West-Pac knows what I'm talking about), food poisoning (e. coli, botulism), massive turbine failures leaving the ship stranded. And I mean, it all started in about 2005. There one major boat disaster about every 3 months coming out of Florida, with smaller ones every month. Smashing into piers, dozens going overboard, people jumping into dry pools, someone getting their whole arm stuck in the commode (don't ask because I don't know).


I have absolutely no idea if it's just chronically poor management or what.

Anyone wanna give up yet?

Have you been playing on your sims again mate?

I remember that supertanker you ran aground in Devon - messy :nope:

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

I might have known....

I thought you were still crawling under the North Pole with your Kilo Kap, or did you Titanic it? :know:

yeah heres the shots :D

http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i2...r/aground1.jpg

http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i2...r/aground2.jpg

http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i2...ilor/roll1.jpg

http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i2...ilor/roll2.jpg

I had to scrap that mission on the grounds that my DW kept crashing out too much which is annoying.

Good god mate, you've flattened the whole bloody rock this time!

hehe you forget no engines means no way of power it did it itself honest !

Damn Kaptain you had me going there! :lol:

Me too.