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Fred Olsen offers first ex-Liverpool world cruise

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Black Watch at Vantuatu
Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines’ 108-night round-the-world voyage on Black Watch departs from Southampton on January 8, 2021.

Guests can also join the ship in Liverpool on January 6 – the first time that a Fred Olsen ship has departed on a world cruise from Merseyside – and disembark in Liverpool on April 29, 2021.

Prices start from £10,799 per person. Guests who choose to set sail from Liverpool will pay an additional £200 per person.

Black Watch's first stop is in Portugal, with visits to Oporto, from Leixões, and Madeira, before moving to the Canary Islands and onto the Caribbean.

Gatun Lake and nine Pacific islands

Travelling over the Gatun Lake, plus visits to nine Pacific islands, Australia, and four maiden calls – including in Fakarava, French Polynesia, and Surabaya, in Java, Indonesia are among highlights.

This is the fourth itinerary to be teased from Fred. Olsen’s 2020/21 cruise programme, which will be launched in full in March 2019.

It follows the early launch of Boudicca’s Black Sea and Med sailing, a Greek Islands and Corinth Canal cruise aboard the shallow-drafted Braemar and American Waterways in the Fall with New York' sailing aboard Balmoral.