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. A Russian cruise ship abandoned and adrift in the North Atlantic has been located about 2400km off the west coast of Ireland according to a US intelligence agency. Russian ghost ship discovered off Ireland.

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. 1017am Feb 22 2013. On 23 February according to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency Lyubov Orlova was spotted at roughly 1300 nautical miles from the Irish coast.

Abandoned and drifting Russian cruise ship the Lyubov Orlova has been spotted again off Irelands western coast. Roughly 1300 nautical miles from the Irish coast. The Lyubov Orlova a 328-foot-long 100 meters vessel named after a Russian screen siren from the 1930s was built in 1976 and chartered for expeditions to polar waters.

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. There have been many sightings of the Russian ghost ship. 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.

In 2014 there were reports that the abandoned former Soviet cruise liner Lyubov Orlova was off the Irish coast bringing with it ominous headlines warning of cannibal rats aboard a ghost. A Russian cruise ship abandoned and adrift in the North Atlantic has been located about 2400 kilometers off the west coast of. The Lyubov Orlovas tow line broke as the cruise ship was being hauled from Canada to the Dominican Republic as scrap.

A week later the ship was the subject of news reports in Ireland and Iceland and a caution to smaller vessels was issued. Because of this spotting there was a caution issued to smaller vessels. The 80-metre cargo ship Alta was last seen thousands of miles away in 2019.