Cruise Ship Clips Railroad Bridge in Massachusetts

Oct 13, 2016

The cruise ship Viking Star operated by Viking Ocean Cruises, on its way to New York City scraped the underside of a Railroad Bridge yesterday, October 12. According to Cape Cod Times, the Army Corps of Engineers is investigating the incident. As seen on the video bellow by Katie Barlow the ship Viking Star slowly sails under the bridge when a mast near the ships funnel scraped the underside of the bridge. In the video you can hear the distinctive scraping sound when the vessel passes beneath the bridge. Viking Star is one of the largest vessels to transverse the Cape Cod Canal.