Ocean Nova & Britannia

Two different ends of the scale with the visits of today's Cruise Liners. St Peter Port is the last port of call for the Britannia on her way north from La Coruna in Spain on the way back to Southampton. Ocean Nova, the diminutive liner in the foreground, was here earlier this week and has returned, making St Peter Port her first port of call from Portsmouth.

Ocean Nova left at lunch time bound for Alderney taking the passage that the larger liners cannot past St Sampson's and the Corbette D'Amont beacon. Later this year in November she will feel more at home as she sails to Antarctica, having been built in Denmark for the waters of Greenland.

There is quite a contrast in the number of guests on each liner: 80 on the Ocean Nova, and over 4,000 on the Britannia. The last tenders are being hoisted on the Britannia as she prepares to leave for Southampton, with a Trident ferry in the background on the last trip of the day to Herm.