Inspections revealed a lifeboat was damaged and could not be repaired onboard, P&O says.
Passengers on board a cruise ship that crashed in a storm in Mallorca have been told some of them will have to fly home early.Inspections revealed a lifeboat was damaged and could not be repaired onboard, the cruise company said.
P&O said a "limited number of guests" will have to finish their holiday early and return to Southampton. A technical assessment was carried out on the cruise ship in Palma, where experts found "structural issues" to one of the lifeboats.Passengers on Britannia described how after it broke loose the ship "floated away like a paper boat"A spokesperson said: "We are so sorry but these extraordinary circumstances mean that the ship is required, by maritime regulation, to return to Southampton with a reduced number of people on board.
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