Cruise ship mishaps

A fire aboard Royal Caribbean’s Grandeur of the Seas marked the latest in a string of cruise ship mishaps in the past few years. Review some of the recent incidents.

Pictured: The Grandeur of the Seas docked in Freeport, Grand Bahama, after a fire in the hull broke out while the ship was en route from Baltimore to the Bahamas. All 2,224 guests and 796 crew were safe and accounted for. Read the full story here.

Adam Goldstein (left), president and CEO of Royal Caribbean, and Anders Aasen of AVP Technical Services checked out some of the damage on deck six of the Grandeur of the Seas.

The fire on Grandeur of the Seas was extinguished at 4:58 a.m. on May 27.

The cruise ship Carnival Spirit docked at Circular Quay in Sydney, Australia, on May 9 after two Australian passengers went overboard during the 10-day journey. Authorities conducted a search for the couple, a 30-year-old man and a 26-year-old woman, who were reported missing after passengers were counted when the Carnival Cruise Lines ship docked. Read more.

The Carnival Triumph sat in the Gulf of Mexico for five days after an engine-room fire on Feb. 10 disabled the vessel and left 4,2000 people on board without power or working toilets. The disabled ship was towed to harbor off Mobile Bay, Ala. The Coast Guard said a leak in a fuel oil return line caused the fire. Read more about when the ship docked in Alabama.

Passengers from the Carnival Triumph disembarked in Mobile, Ala., on Feb. 14.

The Triumph sat in Mobile, Ala., for months after the fire that crippled the ship in the Gulf of Mexico. The vessel was further damaged on April 3 after the being dislodged from its mooring during high winds. The ship finally left Mobile on May 8.

The Carnival Dream cruise ship moored at the A.C. Wathey Cruise Facilities after a diesel generator malfunctioned causing temporary disruptions in Philipsburg, Sint Maarten, on March 14. Read more.

Passengers of the Carnival Dream waited at the international airport to check in for flights back to the United States after their cruise was canceled. The liner was on a week-long cruise and had been due back in Port Canaveral, Fla.

The Carnival Dream moored in harbor in Sint Maarten after its emergency diesel generator malfunctioned during testing and forced the cancellation of the cruise.

A police boat sailed by the grounded cruise ship Costa Concordia off the Tuscan island of Giglio, Italy. The cruise ship ran aground on Jan. 13, 2012, killing 32 people. Rescue crews surveyed the wreckage looking for survivors. The ship’s captain, Francesco Schettino, will stand trial for the incident.

See a collection of photos from the scene.