Friday: The Deutschland was the ship that caught Fire on Sunday while in Norway. No one was seriously injured, but it prompted the evacuation of the vessel. Check out the original post for photos and more detail.

The ship was then towed to Bergen for initial investigation and surveying of the damage. This prompted the cancellation of at least the next voyage.

Today, it was announced that the Deutschland will be towed to Germany where it will enter a shipyard for repairs (perhaps Lloyd Werft?). The damage, while not severe, was still bad enough to prompt a shipyard to conduct repairs. The ship is scheduled to sail from the shipyard on June 6th and the June 7th cruise appears to be on schedule.

Passengers

So what will happen to the displaced passengers?

Obviously the next few cruises were in jeopardy. Peter Delimann formally announced the cancellation of the 13-Night May 25th cruise. Guests on that trip can take a full refund OR, cleverly enough, have their booking transferred to a 16-Night trip on September 10, 2010, at no additional cost.

The guests that were on the trip that was cut short by the fire will receive a 50% discount on a future Peter Delimann trip.Although, since Peter Delimann recently announced they were suspending their river cruise operations, your choices are limited to only ms Deutschland voyages.

As I reported yesterday, the MS Deutschland was towed from Eidfjorden to Bergen Norway for inspection of the damage. The analysis warrants the cancellation of her cruise that was supposed to leave today and sail Hamburg-Hamburg for a 7-Night cruise. There currently are no further details about further cruise cancellations or how the compensation will be handed out.

UPDATE: We have photos!

	These three from bt.no

	From (Dagbladet.no)

German tour operator, Peter Deilmann Cruises ship the MS Deutschland suffered a fire while docked in port. The vessel was calling on the scenic Norwegian Fjord town of Eidfjorden on the west coast of Norway. The fire is said to have been contained to only a machine room and never entered passenger areas. With 607 people onboard, that was a good thing. Never-the-less, with safety always in mind, the ship was fully evacuated and rescue officials assisted the ships crew in extinguishing the blaze.

Rescue services spokesman Per Fjeld says the fire started in the machine room and firefighters have now contained it to that area. He says the ship was carrying 364 passengers, 241 crew members and two Norwegian ship pilots when it caught fire at a port in  on Sunday. (AP)