Saga Cruises new vessel 'SPIRIT OF DISCOVERY'

• PatrickS

  • Location: Marine Parade, Dover
  • Registered: 19 Sep 2015
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  26 June 2019     22:22358086
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  Saga's new cruise liner 'SPIRIT OF DISCOVERY' is due in Dover on Friday morning 28th June.
  
  Dover Harbour Board 'Notice To Mariners 37/19' gives detail of her arrival at around 7:30am accompanied by a flotilla of boats:
  
  https://www.doverport.co.uk/administrator/tinymce/source/Notices%20to%20Mariners/37-19-SM-Saga%20%E2%80%9CSpirit%20of%20Discovery%E2%80%9D%20Arrival%20Flotilla.pdf
• Brian Dixon

  • Location: Dover
  • Registered: 23 Sep 2008
  • Posts: 23,940
  27 June 2019     05:58358088
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  read some where it has got damage at the dock yard, don't know how true but there you have it.
• Reginald Barrington

  • Location: Dover
  • Registered: 17 Dec 2014
  • Posts: 3,261
  27 June 2019     10:12358095
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  Not at the yard, it hit a lane marker at Emden lock and has a dink in its hull and scratched its new paint job.
  Arte et Marte
• Brian Dixon

  • Location: Dover
  • Registered: 23 Sep 2008
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  27 June 2019     13:44358099
  #4      
  tut, tut, some one needs a slapped wrist then.
• Reginald Barrington

  • Location: Dover
  • Registered: 17 Dec 2014
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  27 June 2019     13:54358102
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  Harbour pilot at that point of manoeuvre. Should be sacked I would imagine.
  Arte et Marte
• PatrickS

  • Location: Marine Parade, Dover
  • Registered: 19 Sep 2015
  • Posts: 448
  28 June 2019     08:44358116
  #6      
  Saga's new cruise liner 'SPIRIT OF DISCOVERY' arrived at Dover this morning and berthed at the new Cargo Terminal accompanied by tugs in spray and a flotilla of small craft.
  
  

  

  
  

  

  
  

  
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