Electrical disruption responsible for Queen Mary 2 blackout

AN ELECTRICAL explosion which left Cunard’s Queen Mary 2 (QM2) cruiseship temporarily without power with 3823 people on board was due to a fault in the aft harmonic filter room, the UK’s Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB) reports.

At 0425 on September 23, 2010, as the then UK-flagged 148,528gt vessel approached Barcelona, an explosion in the aft main switchboard room shut down all four propulsion motors. The ship blacked out shortly afterwards.
MAIB said that the incident on...

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