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Viking Sigyn is a 135-metre (443 ft) river-cruising "longship" operated by Swiss-based Viking River Cruises. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] She has four decks with 95 rooms and can carry 190 passengers. [ 9 ] The ship was christened in March 2019 and placed on the company's Danube routes.
The accident was reported on Saturday night after a 35-year-old man was found with a bleeding head wound near a main road by the river near Veroce, 55 km (34 miles) north of the capital Budapest.
The 64-year-old Ukrainian is accused of hitting and sinking another boat leading to the deaths 27 people and could be jailed for up to 11 years.
The river cruise boat capsized and sank in the Danube River at Budapest, Hungary, after colliding with the 135-metre (443 ft) cruise ship Viking Sigyn ( Switzerland) [68] in a heavy rainstorm. Seven passengers were rescued, and twenty-one passengers and two crew members were left missing.
The company was established by Torstein Hagen in St. Petersburg, Russia as Viking River Cruises in 1997. Hagen had become involved in cruising as a McKinsey and Company consultant who helped the Holland America Line survive the 1973 oil crisis, then was CEO of the Royal Viking Line from 1980 to 1984, made money in the Russian private equity markets, then bought a controlling stake in a Dutch ...
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Hableány in 2017. On October 6, 1968 in Cheboksary, the M–176 collided with a reefer on the Volga River and sank. 51 passengers were killed, 10 injured. [1]On May 29, 2019 in Budapest, the Hableány collided with the cruise ship Viking Sigyn on the Danube, and sank. 26 passengers and 2 crewmen were killed, 7 survived.
More than 100 Viking passengers became sick during a recent cruise, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said. The public health agency said 110 of the Viking Neptune ship’s 838 guests ...