This news is a few days old now, but the Aurora?s reputation as a jinxed ship is growing with its latest voyage fiasco, when a ?world cruise? ended up being a trot around the Isle of Wight (costing P&O somewhere between ?28 & ?46 million)

I kept a newspaper article a few days ago saying how P&O are determined not to rename it. It reported how it is said to be even more unlucky to rename a ship and gave examples of boats and ships renamed which ended up in with lots of tales of doom and disaster. As I always do, I forgot I was keeping the article and threw it away when I was tidying up.

These links have some of the details:

Aurora's 11 day cruise to Isle of Wight
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0, ... 98,00.html

Jinxed Aurora limps back after world cruise is cancelled
http://212.2.162.45/news/story.asp?j=10 ... =109534779

I can see how renaming it wouldn't necessarily change things but perhaps renaming and then relaunching. I don't know if relaunching would negate the first chart. The idea would be to get a whole new chart that is far more positive. But then you can't get a whole new birth chart.

It's interesting that there is the willingness to believe in the bad luck of renaming ships or the fact the bottle didn't break etc. but I wonder how they would feel about getting an astrologer to elect a time for relaunch.

Deb, you mentioned in a previous post on this thread that you have seen Neptune on an angle in a lot of shipping disaster charts. You pointed out Neptune on the descendant of the launch chart. I looked at the chart for the date and time the ship finally left for the recent trip (19th). I took the time as being 6pm. P & O generally set sail at this time and newspaper reports I saw said early evening for this recent trip. What I noticed is that Neptune is on the descendant. Of course I can't be positive about the timing but it is interesting how similar themes often play out in a series of related charts.

For anyone who has been following the story of this unfortunate ship, I came across another couple of dates or times.

The ship was handed over to P & O on the 15th April, 2000. April 15th, coincidentally, was the date the Titanic went down.

It left Cowes on 16th April at 11:30am and arrived in Southampton around midday. It sailed back to Cowes at 2pm. I'm not sure why this happened other than a bit of a test run.

We already know that Princess Anne named the ship at 11:30 on April 27th.

On May 1st, the Aurora left Southampton at 6pm on its first voyage. At 2am the ship stopped. It resumed its journey around breakfast time. However, at 11am, the ship announced it was turning back and the trip was cancelled.

It's next trip was on May 15th and it set sail at sunset.

In the latest journey, the trip finally set sail on January 19th, 2005 at 9pm. It lasted for about 100 kms.