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16 migrants rescued off Punta Polacra
The 'Ambience', en route from Leixoes, rescued 14 men and two women, one of them pregnant, from a skiff which located about 20 miles southeast of Punta Polacra, off the coast of Cabo de Gata-Níjar Natural Park (Almería), on Aug 17, 2023, at around 10.50 a.m. They were disembarked at the port of Palma de Mallorca, where the cruise ship berthed at the Dique del Oeste Multipurpose Terminal on Aug 18 at 8.20 a.m. UTC. All castaways were of Maghreb origin and have Moroccan, Algerian and Tunisian nationalities.
Medevac in Tilbury
On June 21, 2022, around 7 a.m. the Coastguard and a boat of the RNLI Gravesend were called to the 'Ambience' at the Tilbury Cruise Terminal, across the river from Gravesend. One passenger had to be medevaced due to an urgent medical emergency. A Coastguard helicopter hoisted the patient on a stretcher. Before, the 'Ambience' had come to the London Ferry Terminal Tilbury very quickly, escorted by a tug and the helicopter. Report with photos: https://www.kentonline.co.uk/gravesend/news/passenger-winched-from-cruise-ship-in-dramatic-rescue-269049/
Maiden voyage had to be postponed
The Ambassador Cruise Line,, the first British cruise line to launch in the UK in more than a decade, has been delayed until after the Easter break. The 'Ambience' was set to depart on its maiden voyage on April 6, 2022, but was now not scheduled to set sail until April 25. She has undergone extensive engineering and other works whilst in dry-dock in Durres. The process has been subjected to some significant recent supply-side delays which also led to a temporary lack of availability of marine gas oil in that country. Whilst these have now been resolved, her maiden voyage to Hamburg, originally planned for April 6, has been re-scheduled to now depart on April 20. Her first two sailings to the Norwegian Fjords have subsequently been cancelled. Several delays impacting the extensive programme of works during the period the 'Ambience'was in dry dock could be mitigated, but at present, extensive supply chain disruptions and delays in many commercial areas made it impossible to depart for London Tilbury on the original date which had a knock-on effect to the inaugural sailing programme.
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