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Jepp
First Class Passenger
Member # 5576

posted 05-22-2009 06:44 PM

Hello!
Saga Rose is currently in Bremerhaven and have been since 20th May.
According to The Port of Stockholm website she was supposed to visit Stockholm 22nd May, first changed to 23rd May and now to 24th...
And wy this track:

?
/Jepp

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rem-dk
First Class Passenger
Member # 5121

posted 05-23-2009 05:27 AM

I can not give an answar, but she is to visit Copenhagen on the 29. of May.
http://www.skibe.cmport.com/coins/kbhhavn.nsf

René.

[ 05-23-2009: Message edited by: rem-dk ]

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ahrpd
First Class Passenger
Member # 6229

posted 05-23-2009 05:47 AM

Her current "Baltic Reverie" 13-night cruise does not even feature Bremerhaven as a port of call. Her itinerary should have been:

Dover - 19 May
Kiel Canal - 20 May
At Sea - 21 May
Stockholm - 22 May
Helsinki - 23 May
St Petersburg - 24/25 May
Tallinn - 26 May
At Sea - 27 May
Warnemunde - 28 May
Copenhagen - 29 May
Oslo - 30 May
At Sea - 31 May
Dover - 1 June

Lloyds is not reporting any problems, so her extended stay in Bremerhaven is a mystery!

Tony

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Jepp
First Class Passenger
Member # 5576

posted 05-23-2009 06:10 AM

Her call at Stockholm has now been canceled as well as her call at Helsinki...

/Jepp

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Neil - Ex P & O & PRINCESS CRUISES
First Class Passenger
Member # 5641

posted 05-23-2009 09:35 AM

Email Neil - Ex P & O & PRINCESS CRUISES

It sounds as if she might have some more mechanical problems.

I think it was last year, or maybe the year before, when she had some problems around Singapore.

The Captains bog has not been updated on their website for some time.

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ahrpd
First Class Passenger
Member # 6229

posted 05-23-2009 10:44 AM

quote:
Originally posted by Neil Whitmore ( Bob ex P&O Cruises):
The Captains bog has not been updated....for some time.

That must be very uncomfortable for him!

Tony

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Neil - Ex P & O & PRINCESS CRUISES
First Class Passenger
Member # 5641

posted 05-23-2009 01:13 PM

Hi Tony

The Captain who made the last blog entry is not in the list of regular Saga cruise ship Captains on their website.

Hope he is not from Alang !

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PamM
First Class Passenger
Member # 2127

posted 05-23-2009 01:21 PM

He's been with Saga a while, you will find him on the Spirit of Adventure pages.

Pam

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Neil - Ex P & O & PRINCESS CRUISES
First Class Passenger
Member # 5641

posted 05-23-2009 01:31 PM

Thanks pam

At about 16.30hrs today Saga Rose anchored just off of Cuxhaven at the North Sea side of the Kiel Canal.

There is a tug near to her !

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PamM
First Class Passenger
Member # 2127

posted 05-23-2009 01:50 PM

She's just about to enter the Kiel Canal. Should be able to see her shortly on the cam.

Pam

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Neil - Ex P & O & PRINCESS CRUISES
First Class Passenger
Member # 5641

posted 05-23-2009 06:50 PM

Following her on the AIS maps from her course line it looked as if she might have brushed against a cargo ship while overtaking it in the Kiel Canal !

I have put a copy of the AIS map with the incident on the cruisingtalk website as photos are far easier to post on there than on here.

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dmwnc1
Cruise Director
Member # 3785

posted 05-23-2009 07:18 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Neil Whitmore ( Bob ex P&O Cruises):
I have put a copy of the AIS map with the incident on the cruisingtalk website as photos are far easier to post on there than on here.

Posting pictures on CT cant be that hard (my 12 year old nephew can do it) and is probably easier and less time consuming than trying to navigate thru your website to find a single picture. Maybe if you posted a direct link to the picture on your site it might be better? I gave up trying to find it.

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Neil - Ex P & O & PRINCESS CRUISES
First Class Passenger
Member # 5641

posted 05-23-2009 07:27 PM

The AIS maps are shown under Cruise Lines, Saga Cruises and Saga Rose, as it is about that ship !

Should not be difficult to find !

Perhaps your 12 year old nephew had computers at school.

WE DID NOT IN 1947 AS WORLD WAR 2 HAD JUST ENDED !

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dmwnc1
Cruise Director
Member # 3785

posted 05-23-2009 07:45 PM

Do I have to sign up and become a member of your website before I can view the pictures? I got to that point and couldnt get any further.

And age is no excuse. A lot of time has passed since 1947, and in the last decade plenty of senior citizens have become computer literate enough to post pictures.

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Neil - Ex P & O & PRINCESS CRUISES
First Class Passenger
Member # 5641

posted 05-24-2009 04:29 AM

Same as here, you sign up.

I will treat the other remark with the contempt it deserves as I do post pictures on our website !

[ 05-24-2009: Message edited by: Neil Whitmore ( Bob ex P&O Cruises) ]

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rem-dk
First Class Passenger
Member # 5121

posted 05-24-2009 07:49 AM

It looks like she is on her way to Skt. Petersburg now.

Hmm, I tried to paste the map like Jepp did at the start of the thread, but I did not have much luck with this.

René

[ 05-24-2009: Message edited by: rem-dk ]

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Neil - Ex P & O & PRINCESS CRUISES
First Class Passenger
Member # 5641

posted 05-27-2009 07:58 AM

Saga Rose had steering problems in the Straits of Dover on the evening of the 19th May 2009 due to the steering pumps not operating correctly when she was moving at speed.

As a result of needing to get into port as soon as possible she was able to get a berth with repair facilities at Bremerhaven and cancelled both the River Elbe and Keil Canal pilots which she had booked.

Both pumps had to be stripped, repaired and rebuilt which took two days and three nights !

Repairs were passed by a surveyor before she could resume her cruise.

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