{"id":12609,"date":"2013-06-24T22:30:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-24T22:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/fire-damages-hapag-lloyd-hanseatic-cruises-cancelled\/"},"modified":"2013-06-24T22:30:00","modified_gmt":"2013-06-24T22:30:00","slug":"fire-damages-hapag-lloyd-hanseatic-cruises-cancelled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2013\/06\/fire-damages-hapag-lloyd-hanseatic-cruises-cancelled\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire damages Hapag-Lloyd HANSEATIC. Cruises cancelled."},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" trbidi=\"on\">source: seatrade insider<\/p>\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7084\/7300352144_c034cc82b8.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"266\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7084\/7300352144_c034cc82b8.jpg\" width=\"400\"><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>expeditioncruising.com was aboard HANSEATIC in 2012<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Hapag-Lloyd Kreuzfahrten canceled two more <i>Hanseatic<\/i> cruises following a fire that damaged the ship during its maintenance docking at Bremerhaven&#8217;s Bredo Werft earlier this month. <\/p>\n<p><i>Hanseatic<\/i> is now expected to resume service on Aug. 16. <\/p>\n<p>Passengers will get a full refund and 10% off another sailing during the 2013-2014 season. Travel agent commissions are protected. <\/p>\n<p>The July 14 sailing from Svalbard&#8217;s Longyearbyen and the Aug. 1 cruise from Kangerlussuaq, Greenland, were dropped. Earlier the company canceled the June 17 sailing from Bremerhaven and the July 4 cruise from Troms\u00f8. <\/p>\n<p>The June 9 fire damaged the ship&#8217;s engine compartment and a fire watchman from the yard and two Filipino crew members suffered smoke inhalation, requiring hospitalization. <\/p>\n<p>The blaze broke out during welding work in one of <i>Hanseatic<\/i>&#8216;s ballast tanks. It was quickly extinguished by local fire services but caused enough damage to significantly extend the shipyard overhaul.<\/p>\n<p>Fire is an ever-present enemy of ships and one all-too-familiar to the historic German line. <\/p>\n<p>In 1966, a fire aboard the 1929-built HANSEATIC gutted five decks while in port in New York. She was subsequently scrapped.<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishpathe.com\/video\/america-ship-on-fire-in-new-york\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-U-lvVjAGM7E\/UcjGOlmFthI\/AAAAAAAAgSQ\/IQ2KH2W8s2g\/s1600\/hansfire.jpg\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>BREMEN was destroyed by an arsonist in Bremerhaven in 1941. No lives were lost in any of these fires.<\/p>\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shipsnostalgia.com\/guides\/images\/d\/de\/F10_Bremen.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"265\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shipsnostalgia.com\/guides\/images\/d\/de\/F10_Bremen.jpg\" width=\"400\"><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>The gutted BREMEN in Bremerhaven, 1941.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>source: seatrade insider expeditioncruising.com was aboard HANSEATIC in 2012 Hapag-Lloyd Kreuzfahrten canceled two more Hanseatic cruises following a fire that damaged the ship during its maintenance docking at Bremerhaven&#8217;s Bredo Werft earlier this month. Hanseatic is now expected to resume service on Aug. 16. Passengers will get a full refund and 10% off another sailing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[333],"class_list":["post-12609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-hapag-lloyd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12609\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}