incident and was en route to Aruba at the time of the woman's death. Royal Princess was refurbished in a wet dock in Freeport, Bahamas in December 2018. Pacific service On 2 February 2019, she re-positioned to Los Angeles, California via a 49-day voyage circumnavigating South America and became the first Royal-class ship to call at a port in the Western United States. Beginning in March 2019, Royal Princess sails to the Mexican Riviera and along the California coast from her homeport of Port of Los Angeles during the fall, winter, and spring seasons, and along the Alaskan coast from her homeports of Vancouver, British Columbia and Whittier, Alaska during the summer seasons. On 13 May 2019, six people died when two floatplanes, all carrying passengers from Royal Princess, collided in midair near Ketchikan, Alaska. All passengers and the pilot aboard a Mountain Air Service De Havilland DHC-2 Beaver and one passenger aboard a Taquan Air De Havilland DHC-3 Otter were reported dead at the scene. The other nine passengers on the DHC-3 Otter were rescued and received medical attention. The United States Coast Guard assisted in the rescue and the NTSB and Alaska State Troopers are leading the investigation. The ship was sailing a 7-day Alaska cruise from Vancouver to Whittier, Alaska at the time of the incident, and was docked in Ketchikan when the collision occurred. On 7 March 2020, after a crew member from had transferred to Royal Princess fifteen days earlier, the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a "no-sail order" for the ship on 8 March 2020, prompting Princess to cancel the ship's seven-day cruise to Mexico before it departed Los Angeles. References External links Official website Ships of Princess Cruises Ships built in Monfalcone Ships built by Fincantieri 2012 ships