Newsbot Posted May 9, 2009 Share Posted May 9, 2009 The first cruise ship to visit the Isle of Man for 2009 weighs anchor in Douglas Bay. Source : http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/world/...man/8041673.stm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max Power Posted May 9, 2009 Share Posted May 9, 2009 Poor buggers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluemonday Posted May 9, 2009 Share Posted May 9, 2009 So it hasn't docked, it anchored. And as it has weighed anchor it has gone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manshimajin Posted May 10, 2009 Share Posted May 10, 2009 What's all that complying with 'safety at sea laws' bit about??? Frankly a useless bit of BBC reporting. How many came ashore? Where did they go? How much did they spend? Did they enjoy their time here? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terse Posted May 10, 2009 Share Posted May 10, 2009 "The vessel was originally built in 1969..." (Newsbot) "built in 1965 by Mathias-Thesen Werft, East Germany as MS Alexandr Pushkin for the Soviet Union's Baltic Shipping Company." (Wikipedia) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Tatlock Posted May 10, 2009 Share Posted May 10, 2009 Marco Polo being approached by the MV Karina Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
%age Posted May 10, 2009 Share Posted May 10, 2009 .... Frankly a useless bit of BBC reporting. How many came ashore? Where did they go? How much did they spend? Did they enjoy their time here? Remind me again, how many BBC journalists do we pay for over here? The BBC use to have such high standards which we could all rely on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sarahc Posted May 10, 2009 Share Posted May 10, 2009 What's all that complying with 'safety at sea laws' bit about??? Frankly a useless bit of BBC reporting. How many came ashore? Where did they go? How much did they spend? Did they enjoy their time here? You can't possibly find all that out in a day, if ever. I used to work in a shop that had lots of cruise ship visitors. They had forgone the usual "Take them to Tynwald Hill then Tynwald Mills" tour and gone into Douglas. Nobody would be able to work out how much they spent in all the shops they visited. And if someone asked them I would hope they told them to bog off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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