Business as usual

After her 3 day repair on her propeller shaft seal along side Southampton's Ocean Terminal ORIANA finally departed later than planned around 4:30 AM yesterday.
In order to make lost time ORIANA headed across the North Sea at over 26 knots peaking at 26.4 yesterday morning.

 ORIANA's course and speed yesterday morning.

Considering the length of delay it is very impressive that she managed to arrive in Stavanger just under 4 hours behind schedule.

It stands as testament to the commitment of P&O and it's parent company to keep the proud flagship well maintained, it is also goes to show the versatility and ability of ORIANA her self to be able to atain higer than her offical top speed so soon after repairs were completed.

Although she has gone faster ,on occasion in excess of 30 knots due to the price of fuel and various other factors it has been very rare for ORIANA to exceed 22 to 23 knots.

With the need now for cruise lines to built bigger to create a mass market appeal the ships no longer require the higher speeds there are therefore very few other ships which are capable of reaching these higher speeds.