Abandoned Russian Cruise Ship Appears Off Irish Coast

With no crew or warning lights the ship Lyubov Orlova has been adrift for two months and maritime authorities had been uncertain of its precise location.

Abandoned russian cruise ship appears off irish coast. A Russian cruise ship abandoned and adrift in the North Atlantic has been located about 2400 kilometers off the west coast of Ireland according to a US intelligence agency. A ghost cargo ship has washed up off the coast of County Cork Ireland brought in by the bad weather that lashed. 1017am Feb 22 2013.

The Irish Coastguard received a signal from the former Arctic cruise ship in March 2013 after two lifeboats reportedly fell off and triggered the warning signals from the ships emergency position-indicating radio beacon EPIRB according to which the Lyubov Orlova was heading east and was about 700 miles off the coast of Ireland. On March 1 it was reported by the Irish media that a signal from the ships emergency positioning beacon was received. The 80-metre cargo ship Alta was last seen thousands of miles away in 2019.

On 23 February according to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency Lyubov Orlova was spotted at roughly 1300 nautical miles from the Irish coast. After months of drifting across the North Atlantic a luckless abandoned cruise ship spotted drifting off the coast of Ireland may have finally sunk beneath the waves. Abandoned and drifting Russian cruise ship the Lyubov Orlova has been spotted again off Irelands western coast.

The ship empty except for an infestation of rats has not. It was 700 miles off the Kerry coast but still in International waters. A US intelligence agency document obtained by AFP revealed that the abandoned ship had recently been spotted around 1300 nautical miles off the Irish coast and is.

A Russian cruise ship Lyubov Orlova at one time a frequent summer visitor to the Falklands abandoned and adrift in the North Atlantic has been located about 2400 kilometres off the west coast. With no crew or warning lights the ship Lyubov Orlova has been adrift for two months and maritime authorities had been uncertain of its precise location. The ships could end up anywhere from West Africa to the Norwegian Arctic or they could get caught up in the North Atlantic vortex.

The Lyubov Orlovas tow line broke as the cruise ship was being hauled from Canada to the Dominican Republic as scrap. The vessel has no crew or warning lights and has been aimlessly drifting for. It all began when the Yugoslavian-built ship named in 1976 after a Russian actor was abandoned for two years in a Newfoundland port after its owners were embroiled in a debt dispute.