{"id":150187,"date":"2026-08-21T19:04:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T19:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/150187\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T19:04:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T19:04:11","slug":"body-recovered-in-search-for-man-fallen-overboard-on-cruise-ship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/150187\/","title":{"rendered":"Body recovered in search for man fallen overboard on cruise ship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Those onboard were initially delayed from being allowed to leave the ship, but were eventually permitted to disembark at about 11:30.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Coastguard aircraft from as Prestwick and Carlisle were scrambled to assist in the search alongside a commercial search and rescue helicopter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lifeboat crews from Anstruther and Broughty Ferry and Coastguard teams from Dundee, Arbroath and St Andrews also joined the operation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The MS Ambition left Dundee for Newcastle on Friday evening. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A Police Scotland spokesperson said: &#8220;Around 8.55am on Friday, 21 August, 2026, we received a report that a man had gone overboard from a cruise ship in the North Sea.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;A search and rescue operation, carried out by police and partner agencies, has been ongoing and a body has been recovered.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The MS Ambition was previously chartered by the Scottish government to provide temporary housing for Ukrainian refugees<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Those onboard were initially delayed from being allowed to leave the ship, but were eventually permitted to disembark&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":150188,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[43],"class_list":["post-150187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-faroe-islands","tag-faroe-islands"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/117135059663511638","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}