The 2015 cruise ship season begins next week with the arrival of the Hamburg and Fred Olsen's Boudicca. The two-ship call on Thursday, April 30, will see Boudicca berthing on County wharf whilst Hamburg moors alongside the Queen's jetty.

Over in the Isles of Scilly, the islands will welcome 19 ships during May, the entire number of ships due in Falmouth this year.

Carrying mainly German speaking passengers, Hamburg has been a familiar visitor to the port over the years when she was called c. Columbus. The ship began her cruise at Lisbon and arrives here from La Corunna on her “Spring awakening at the most beautiful coasts of Western Europe” cruise.

Boudicca is on a “Floral Britannia” cruise starting at Dover and circumnavigating the UK. She will return later in the year for a final call.

In 2016 Fred Olsen Cruises will use Falmouth as a turnaround port for two cruises. Boudicca will be the largest ever cruise ship to use the port for these for “Falmouth to Falmouth” cruises. At nearly 700 feet in length, she carries 900 passengers and cruises at over 20 knots.

The 28,000 tons Boudicca will start her 12 nights “Canary Islands and Portugal Spring Break” cruise from Falmouth on April 12, 2016, to Funchal, Madeira, Santa Cruz, La Palma, Santa Cruz, Tenerife, and Arrecife, Lanzarote in the Canary Islands before returning to Falmouth via Lisbon.

Boudicca will dock here on Sunday, April 24, where she will embark passengers for her ten nights Land’s End to John O’Groats cruise. The ship will call at Liverpool; cruise past Fingal's Cave on the uninhabited island of Staffa, before calling at Kirkwall, Invergordon, Scabster and Tobermory. On the return leg to Falmouth the ship calls at Belfast.

Information about these two cruises can be obtained by calling free phone 0800 652 3452.