Thank you for registeringPlease refresh the page or navigate to another page on the site to be automatically logged inPlease refresh your browser to be logged inJump to contentIndependent Bulletin homepageDownload our app AllNewsSportCultureLifestyleAmbition was sailing to Dundee when the passenger was reported missing (Alamy/PA)A major search and rescue operation has been launched after a man fell overboard from a cruise ship off the Scottish coast. Police Scotland were alerted at 8.55am on Friday that a passenger was missing from the MS Ambition, roughly 40 nautical miles off Anstruther, Fife. The Ambassador Cruise Line vessel was en route from Lerwick to Dundee as part of the 2026 Solar Eclipse Cruise. A thorough search of the vessel was carried out after it berthed in Dundee before passengers were permitted to disembark. HM Coastguard and Police Scotland are continuing search efforts for the missing passenger, whose next of kin have been notified. In fullMan ‘falls overboard from cruise ship’ as major search launched in ScotlandMore bulletinsThank you for registeringPlease refresh the page or navigate to another page on the site to be automatically logged inPlease refresh your browser to be logged in
Major search operation after man ‘falls from cruise ship’ off Scotland
Thank you for registeringPlease refresh the page or navigate to another page on the site to be automatically logged inPlease refresh your browser to be logged inJump to contentIndependent Bulletin homepageDownload our app AllNewsSportCultureLifestyleAmbition was sailing to Dundee when the passenger was reported missing (Alamy/PA)A major search and rescue operation has been launched after a man fell overboard from a cruise ship off the Scottish coast. Police Scotland were alerted at 8.55am on Friday that a passenger was missing from the MS Ambition, roughly 40 nautical miles off Anstruther, Fife. The Ambassador Cruise Line vessel was en route from Lerwick to Dundee as part of the 2026 Solar Eclipse Cruise. A thorough search of the vessel was carried out after it berthed in Dundee before passengers were permitted to disembark. HM Coastguard and Police Scotland are continuing search efforts for the missing passenger, whose next of kin have been notified. In fullMan ‘falls overboard from cruise ship’ as major search launched in ScotlandMore bulletinsThank you for registeringPlease refresh the page or navigate to another page on the site to be automatically logged inPlease refresh your browser to be logged in
