By lunchtime today the main problem seems to have been resolved and we have started off again, albeit at a lower speed (18 kts) than before (21-23 kts) whilst the engineers investigate a “technical issue” with one of the ship’s propulsion pods.

So we can’t help but be reminded of the Titanic (again!):

• It's the 15th today (the day in April 1912 the Titanic sank)
• The ship has a technical issue (although in the case of the Titanic this was a large hole made by contact with an iceberg)
• The musicians in the restaurant last night were playing “My Heart Will Go On” (thankfully without Celine Dion)
• The QM2’s designer, Stephen Payne, is on board this voyage (Thomas Andrews, the Titanic designer was onboard its first and only voyage).

We can only be grateful that one connection was missing: Harland & Wolff in Belfast (builders of the Titanic) couldn’t finance the building of the QM2 so instead it was built by some cheese eating surrender monkeys called Chantiers de l’Atlantique in St Nazaire near Nantes.