‘Cruise arrivals are usually spread out evenly across the summer season, but for the start of May, the team looked after five ships over eight days,’ Paul Britton, harbour master and CEO Dart Harbour & Navigation Authority, told Seatrade Cruise News.
Ponant kicked off the week with a visit by Le Lyrial, followed by her sister ship, Le Boréal some five days later. Silversea's newest expedition ship Silver Endeavour made two calls into the town, whilst HX's MS Maud, rounded off the period Tuesday May 7.
Varied itineraries
The ships were sailing on various British Isles, Western Europe and Iceland itineraries for which Dartmouth is particularly suited, being easily reachable from other southwest ports, the Channel Islands, the Scillies, as well as the southern ports of Ireland, Britton outlined.
Passengers took a wide variety of tours, including Agatha Christie’s Greenway House by water, the steam train, Dartmoor, Slapton Ley nature reserve, kayaking the creeks and Sandridge Barton vineyard.
Britton summed up the past week: ‘the most memorable moment was swinging Silver Endeavour in the middle of the town on departure, with hundreds of people waving from the quay, whilst exchanging a whistling contest between the ship and a passing steam train. Definitely a uniquely Dartmouth experience.'
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