From an email received from Ross at Cruise Junkie...
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Grand Princess accident
At around 9pm during dinner, there was a sharp lurch and then a hard drop and the ship shuddered noticeably. Several hours later, the ship lurched again and then came down hard and shuddered again and the power to the entire ship went out. The ship seemed to drop again, and vibrated very hard. about 5 minutes later power was restored only briefly, and then went out again. Power was out for about another 5-10 min and then came back on, but not to propulsion. We drifted for about 30 min before limited propulsion was restored. There was VERY limited notification as to what happened, just the usual all is well and we are working on restoring power and propulsion. The ship was to arrive at 6am, but we were proceeding only at about 5 knots and on only one screw. We finally limped ashore and arrived at 1230pm. We had to be assisted by 2 tugs to get us docked- something I NEVER saw on any other port call for this ship. The scene ashore was totally anarchy with little comment from Princess. I heard from an engineer when i questioned him that we lost a generator as well as damaged a stabilizer- but again nothing from Princess in terms of compensation, assistance or comment. Overall a very bad situation on their part. What I want to know is how seas of only 4-8 feet could take out a modern mega-ship like Grand Princess? Yes winds were like 40MPH but that should be nothing for a ship this large and modern.
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Sent to Ross by a passenger on board at the time that the incident occurred.