Passengers recall terrifying escape from fire on Singapore-bound cruise ship

2026-02-20 - 08:04

May Lau was jolted awake by loud, urgent knocking on her cabin door in the early hours of Friday – and she knew immediately something was wrong. “They were knocking so loudly, I thought there was no way this was a drill,” she said in Mandarin. “They told us to get up as soon as we could. I could smell the smoke in the air and I knew there was a problem. We didn’t even have time to take our things.” A fire had broken out on deck nine of the World Legacy, a Liberia-registered cruise ship, as it...