Rhine River Cruise Ship Crash

Myths and legends bubble around you during your cruise on the Rhine - from the stories of cruel Archbishop Hatto eaten alive by mice after playing a trick on local peasants to the Lorelei maid who sat combing her golden hair on a high rocky cragdistracting sailors so much with her beauty and song that she caused them to crash on the rocks.

Rhine river cruise ship crash. German luxury riverboat cruise liner Peter Deilmann Riverboat Cruises is going out of business and shutting down all Rhine Danube Elbe Seine and Rhone boats from the 2010 season. By 1450 the great rivers had been more or less completely diked Cruising Between Basel Amsterdam. Two Hungarian crew who were in the wheelhouse at the time of the collision were killed.

The accident reportedly occurred at 130 AM. The cause of the crash of Swiss Crystal cruise ship into a motorway bridge on Rhine river on the evening of 26 December was attributed to the pilots steering error according to data provided by SWI news agency. Theyll be aboard certain weeklong Rhine Danube and Seine sailings in 2021 and 2022.

The river cruise ship had just left the town of Erlangen on its way to the Hungarian capital of Budapest and was operating on the main Danube Canal at night when the accident occurred. Cruise ship slams into a bridge on Germanys River Rhine leaving at least 25 injured The Swiss Crystal which was carrying 129 passengers smashed into a. In other river cruise news Avalon Waterways rolled out a new Storyteller Series of cruises hosted by international bestselling authors and a chart-topping musician.

Myths and legends bubble around you during your cruise on the Rhine - from the stories of cruel Archbishop Hatto eaten alive by mice after playing a trick on local peasants to the Lorelei maid who sat combing her golden hair on a high rocky cragdistracting sailors so much with her beauty and song that she caused them to crash on the rocks. Guests will have ample opportunity to taste the local grape as the vineyards bring in the local harvest and will be. Glide through countries rich in history and spellbinding beauty.

Sagas brand-new river cruise ship Spirit of the Rhine has departed on its inaugural 13-night cruise from Trier and will take in the beautiful Moselle valley and Roman wine towns along the way such as Bernkastel Traben-Trarbach and Piesport. Float through lush wine regions to the timeless town of Cologne. Pope Benedict XVI greets pilgrims and faithful as he boards on the Boat RheinEnergie to cruise down the Rhine river in.

In other parts of the river particularly in the Netherlands dikes were erected. The collision was due to the high water level. A Viking Cruises ship with 171 passengers on board crashed into an oil tanker off the coast of the Netherlands.