All passengers have been evacuated from a small cruiseship operated by French line Ponant due to a fire.

The 10,944-gt Le Boreal (built 2010) was sailing off the Falkland Islands early Wednesday when the blaze broke out in the engine room.

Ponant said there were no injuries to passengers or crew. It added the fire was “of a technical nature” and has been extinguished.

Passengers were transferred to a company’s sistership and were taken to Port Stanley in the Falkland Islands to be repatriated to their homes.

Engineers