Crew of the Queen Mary 2 are practising evacuation procedures

The �500m vessel is on a training voyage for her crew who practised evacuation procedures.

On New Year's Day two women had to be taken off the ship by lifeboat when she was off Torbay. Both women had broken a leg.

In November, 15 people died when a gangway collapsed in the shipyard where she was built in western France.

Falmouth Coastguards were in regular contact with the ship throughout the day during the exercise.

People in west Cornwall could see her from Pendennis point and the Falmouth sea front.

The 2,620-berth Queen Mary 2, which put to sea for the first time on 23 December, will be named by the Queen in the ship's home port of Southampton on 12 January.