The Times July 20, 2006
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The Crown Princess returns to Port Canaveral after the incident in which she lurched to one side, her pools emptying on the decks (JOE SKIPPER / REUTERS)
PASSENGERS clung on for their lives as a luxury cruise ship came close to capsizing off Florida, washing people out of swimming pools and scattering furniture overboard.
The roll sent holidaymakers aboard the 113,000-tonne Crown Princess flying off their sunloungers and smashing against railings.
Stairwells and lift shafts became waterfalls as the ship’s four pools emptied over the 15 decks, which were left strewn with broken glass and blood.
The incident, suspected to have been caused by a faulty steering mechanism, happened 11 miles (18km) off the coast of Florida on Tuesday. The ship’s poolside cinema had been scheduled to screen Titanic hours later.
Princess Cruises in Southampton said that 58 of the 3,080 passengers were British and that 240 had been treated on board, 98 of those having been transferred to hospitals in Florida. All those had since been released, apart from three passengers and two crew members. They are expected to make a full recovery.
A spokeswoman for Princess Cruises had no information on the nationalities of those injured.
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