‘Valiant Lady’ debuts in Funchal Port

Tobi Hughes·
Madeira News

The cruise ship ‘Valiant Lady’, the new cruise ship of the Virgin company, owned by British millionaire Richard Branson, debuts today in the Port of Funchal.

With a capacity for 2,770 passengers and 1,160 crew, the ‘Valiant Lady’ arrived shortly after 7:00 am from Malaga, a Spanish port on the Mediterranean coast, and will leave at night (at 8:00 pm), towards Tenerife.

From Diário Notícias

Valiant Lady is a cruise ship operated by Virgin Voyages. After she was ordered in October 2016 with Italian shipbuilder Fincantieri, her coin ceremony was held in February 2019 and she was floated out in May 2020 from the shipyard in Sestri Ponente. She was delivered to Virgin in July 2021 as the fleet’s second vessel and sailed her maiden voyage in March 2022 from Portsmouth. At 110,000 GT and measuring 278 metres (912 ft) long for a capacity of 2,770 passengers, she was built with similar proportions to older sister ship Scarlet Lady.

 

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10 Responses

  1. This modern, clean ship is bellowing black smoke all over the town!! I expected better of a new ship.
    As for the weather yesterday, it was some of the worse wind I have known on this side of the island.

  2. The smoke wasn’t black it was grey as it probably being a new ship has to go through filter systems

    1. Michael – don’t think the colour matters. If my car made that much smoke it would fail the MOT (annual roadworthy check), and rightly so. Ships shouldn’t make that much smoke and be allowed to get away with it.

  4. This ship creates a totally disgusting air pollution over our prestige nature island and the wonderful city of Funchal. Yes the exist fumes get dissipated in the large volume of air but still there was a grey visible cloud above the Funchal bay, inevitably these particles pollute the air and we are let no choice but to inhale it.

    The question to the governing authorities – why are the ships allowed to throw the columns of thick smoke in the heart of the city? Can we please ban the use of pollution creating engines immediately and start giving them electricity and chrage for it?!

    1. You want all ships to be electric and wait until they are before allowing them to call in and spend money ?

  5. Can you clarify what debut mean? Valiant Lady has been sailing the Med the whole summer….I was on it in early September for 7 days around the Med.

    2. Perhaps you can tell us what sort of emissions the ship gave out in port when you sailed in her. I read here of black smoke then grey smoke when I would have expected blue smoke from the fuel used. Nobody mentions smell, which should have been noticeable. Auxiliary generators are used all day when in port so perhaps this was an engine problem, if so then the Port Authority would have been notified and permission given for the engines to be used and repaired. Be practical, you can hardly expect the ship to lay off and close down the engines.

  6. Today there are two more cruise ships and neither is producing smoke – the town is heaving and the longest queue I’ve ever seen for the cable car. Let’s hope they spend big in town. We’re back here late November.

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