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Cruise ship damaged by storm returns to port early _ again

A Saturday, Feb. 27, 2016 photo provided by John Turell shows the television screen in a stateroom aboard the Anthem of the Seas cruise ship, where cruise director Abe Hughes and Captain Anders Ingobrigtsen explain to passengers that the cruise was being cut two days short because of a storm developing off Cape Hatteras. The ship is returning to its home port in Bayonne, N.J., after a squall and a norovirus outbreak threatened its current voyage. The ship is the same cruise ship that was battered by a major storm earlier this month. (AP Photo/John Turell) .
A Saturday, Feb. 27, 2016 photo provided by John Turell shows the television screen in a stateroom aboard the Anthem of the Seas cruise ship, where cruise director Abe Hughes and Captain Anders Ingobrigtsen explain to passengers that the cruise was being cut two days short because of a storm developing off Cape Hatteras. The ship is returning to its home port in Bayonne, N.J., after a squall and a norovirus outbreak threatened its current voyage. The ship is the same cruise ship that was battered by a major storm earlier this month. (AP Photo/John Turell) . A Saturday, Feb. 27, 2016 photo provided by John Turell shows the television screen in a stateroom aboard the Anthem of the Seas cruise ship, where cruise director Abe Hughes and Captain Anders Ingobrigtsen explain to passengers that the cruise was being cut two days short because of a storm developing off Cape Hatteras. The ship is returning to its home port in Bayonne, N.J., after a squall and a norovirus outbreak threatened its current voyage. The ship is the same cruise ship that was battered by a major storm earlier this month. (AP Photo/John Turell) .

By Associated Press 1 min read

BAYONNE, N.J. (AP) – A cruise ship that was previously battered by a major storm in the Atlantic Ocean has returned to port early, cutting short another cruise.

Royal Caribbean’s Anthem of the Seas docked in Bayonne, New Jersey, on Wednesday morning. The ship was scheduled to return from a southern Caribbean cruise on Friday. However, cruise line spokeswoman Cynthia Martinez says planned stops in Barbados and St. Kitts were skipped so the 1,141-foot ship could avoid predicted strong winds and rough seas.

The company says the captain was following a new storm avoidance policy that was instituted after the ship was damaged last month when 4,500 passengers hunkered down for hours because of 30-foot waves and hurricane force winds. Four sustained minor injuries.

Martinez also says a small number of the ship’s 6,000 passengers and crew have been treated for what’s believed to be norovirus.

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This story has been corrected to show cruise ship was to return Friday, not March 7.