The First Cruise Ship of the Season goes to Silversea Cruises ship Silver Whisper, who tied up at Pier 20 just after 0830 this morning. An regular apperer in Halifax, She will be back in the Fall.
Holand America Lines has doubled down on Halifax this year adding the Veendam to the existing weekly stop by the Maasdam. The Veendam looks scheduled to appear every 10 days or so, sailing a 14day round trip Quebec City to Boston, with the Maasdam every 5 sailing 14 day round trips out of Montreal and Boston. (Both are available as 7 day one way Cruises)
Halifax regular Atlantic Cartier suffered a fire in her roro deck last night in Hamburg Germany. Reports are 80 cars were damaged. No word on damage to the ship, though its probably significant.
Acl is building replacements for these vessels, so if damage is significant, Atlantic Cartier may go straight to the scrapers.
May 2 at 7pm, the RCN will unveil significant changes to the flags flower by Canadian naval vessels.
Given this week commemorates the 70th anniversary of the battle of the Atlantic, and the RCN recently returned to the royal prefix, and officers epiletes got the executive curl back, the changes are likely a throwback to past Canadian naval history.
If I had to hazard a guess the RCN will be returning to a navy specific jack, without the forces emblem
