66 Year Old Woman Cruise Ship Passenger
Missing Passenger On Cruise Ship
Cunard Queen Elizabeth II - December 31, 2006
A man reported his wife missing on New Year's Eve, after he was unable to locate her. The woman, a 62 year old German national, was on a cruise with her husband and other family members when she disappeared.
Sabine L
Event Date: December 31, 2006
Bruise: Missing
Bruise Location: Off Portugal
Age: 62
Home Town: Germany
Details:
Cunard Line
Ship: Queen Elizabeth II
Built: 1967 Launched 1969
Refurbished: 1972, 1986, 1994, 2001
Registry: United Kingdom
Size: 70,327 tons
Length: 963 feet
Passengers: 1,756
Crew: 1,015
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The group was on a cruise that left Southampton on December 17, 2006 on a Christmas and New Year voyage that included Madeira and the Canary Islands.
The vessel was in Portuguese waters between Madeira and its home port of Southampton in the United Kingdom at the time.
Cruise ship crew did a full search of the ship, then the ship turned around to do a search of the sea, but the woman was not located.
Falmouth as well as the Southampton based Maritime and Coastguard Agency were also alerted to the disappearance.
A search and rescue personnel were scrambled in Lisbon and an aerial search was carried out in the area but the passenger was not found.
As darkness fell, the sea and air search was called off for the day and QE2 resumed her course for Southampton while the search by the Lisbon authorities resumed the following day but again nothing was seen.
Detectives from Hampshire police boarded the QE2 when it docked at Southampton and spoke with crew members, passengers and the missing woman's husband.
An investigation is underway at this time.
This area of the globe is quickly becoming the top location for missing passengers. Other passengers who disappeared in this region recently were George Allen Smith IV, Micki Kanesaki, and Elizabeth Galeana. This is a change from the past. Most previous disappearances were in the Caribbean or Mexican waters.
Talk back to the cruise industry with our new POLL. Weigh in, " Does the increase in missing passenger reports cause you concern?"
UPDATE - JANUARY 10, 2006
The family of the missing woman pleads with cruise ship passengers who were on this voyage.
“On December 30/31, 2006 our dear mother/wife disappeared on board the Queen
Elisabeth 2 somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean not far from Portugal. There is
no clue to what may have happened. Our mother was a sportive person in good
health and had many friends.
If you were on the QE2 departed South Hampton on December 2, 2006 and
returned on December 17, 2006 and have any information which could assist
The family has setup a website. According to the website, the passenger, Sabin L. was in Cabin No. 5167, Deck 5.
She disappeard on the journey between Madeira and Southampton. There is no clue to what might have happened.
