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Black Watch –“A Taste of Normandy”
Today we did an excursion – “A taste of Normandy”. This lasted five and a half hour excursion and included a visit to Honfleur with a guided walk and then some free time, and then a visit to a Calvados...
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Black Watch – disembarkation
Early: We’re back in Southampton, and things are going pear-shaped. We were a little late getting away from Rouen yesterday, nearer 7pm instead of 6:30. We reached the Channel sometime around 11pm, and...
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Snatched images #8 – Black Watch at Liverpool
Not a ‘snatched image’ in the way the others have been, e.g. pulled from webcams or video streams, but snatched in the sense that I had to take this quickly. I happened to be in Liverpool at a meeting...
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Boudicca into dry dock for refit
Fred Olsen’s Boudicca is entering dry dock today (18 November) for a refit. The refit will be done at the Lloyd Werft ship repair yard at Bremerhaven. The information I’ve got from Fred. Olsen is as...
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Black Watch refit
And after all too long a break….. I’ve received an email from Fred. Olsen saying that Black Watch is going into Blohm+Voss for a refit. She’ll leave Tilbury on 18 November and work will start on 20...
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Webcam view of Oriana (and Black Watch) in Hamburg
Here’s a webcam image taken just now (nearly 10am, 28 November) of Oriana and Black Watch in dock in Hamburg – Oriana on the left and Black Watch on the right. Here are a couple of links to other posts...
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Oriana and Black Watch leave Hamburg
Well, I was a few minutes too late to grab good webcam shots of Oriana leaving Hamburg – the one above is the best I could manage. But the important thing is that she is on her way back to Southampton...
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I should have included Fred Olsen’s ships in the list of those departing on world cruises in the near future. Balmoral left today, I believe, although looking at AIS it seems that she didn’t get away...
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I’ve received an email from Fred. Olsen about the recently-completed programme of refits to the whole of their fleet. All four of their ships – Black Watch, Boudicca, Braemar and Balmoral – have...
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Changes at Fred.Olsen – Black Watch & Boudicca to be retired
Black Watch berthed at Rouen Fred. Olsen Cruises have recently announced that their two oldest ships, Black and Boudicca, are being retired. They will be replaced by the two ships that Fred. Olsen...
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