MSC Opera,Crown Princess,Ventura,Celebrity Eclipse,QM2 depart Southampton 25/5/13.

There were five cruise ships in port today at Southampton "MSC Opera","Crown Princess","Ventura","Celebrity Eclipse","Queen Mary 2". There was the Blue Funnel Cruises small boat "Ocean Scene" which was viewing the departures which you will see in this video. The first ship to depart was "MSC Cruises", MSC Opera which arrived earlier in the day from Oslo and was in 104 berth which is near to Mayflower Cruise Terminal. She made her departure from the dockside at 16:03pm and passed Crown Princess who was in Mayflower Cruise Terminal. She made her way to the upper swinging ground to swing round and head back past her berth and passing Celebrity Eclipse where MSC Opera and Eclipse had a horn battle before finally passing Queen Mary 2 and down Southampton Water to her next port of call which was Amsterdam. Next departure was "Princess Cruises", Crown Princess she arrived earlier in the day from Gibraltar and was in Mayflower Cruise Terminal, She departed nearly half an hour later as planned at 16:28pm but I did not see her swing around but watched her pass by Town Quay where I was filming from and then pass by Queen Mary 2 then down Southampton Water on towards her next port of call which was La Corunna. She was then followed by "P&O'S", Ventura which arrived earlier in the day from Stavanger and was berthed in Ocean Cruise Terminal. Where she later departed from at 16:45pm which was 15 minutes later as planned after having to let the Crown Princess pass by first. As Ventura made her departure she then passed by Queen Mary 2 and down Southampton Water towards her next port of call which was Zeebrugge. After Ventura was "Celebrity X Cruises", Celebrity Eclipse which arrived earlier in the day from Lisbon and was berthed in City Cruise Terminal where she departed from at 17:34pm her departure was 65 minutes later as planned and left for her next port of call being Zeebrugge with her usual blast on her horns before passing Town Quay and Queen Mary 2 then headed down Southampton Water. And the last ship to depart was at last "Cunards", Queen Mary 2 she was in the QEll Cruise Terminal and arrived earlier in the day from Hamburg. Her original departure was planned for 16:30pm but was changed to 18:30pm but she actually left her berth at 18:41pm with some assistance from the tug "Svitzer Sarah", QM2 had to let the cargo ship Autostar pass her first before she could leave then gave a rather feeble attempt at blowing her horn but maybe because I was hearing it from the stern plus the wind was blowing a bit too, She then headed down Southampton Water with her next port of call being New York.