Passengers on board Princess Cruises' 1997 built Dawn Princess were ordered to muster stations after a fire had broken out on board the 77,400 gross ton ship, an Australian media report says. However, the fire was put out and nobody was hurt.

"The cruise liner had just left Wellington, New Zealand, on its way to Napier, on the east coast of the country's North Island, when the fire started in an electrical sub station on deck 6 about 9pm on Friday," a report on the website of Sun Herald in Australia said.

"The 1922 passengers on-board the Dawn Princess were made to wait with life jackets, warm clothes and possessions for about an hour while the crew extinguished the fire. There were no passenger or crew injuries," the report said.

Dawn Princess based in Australia year round.

The incident comes only a couple of months after engine trouble forced abortion of a cruise of the 143,000 gross ton Royal Princess, the largest ship of the Carnival Corp & plc group member line, in the Mediterranean. The ship was just three months old at the time.

A spokeswoman for Princess Cruises, the operator of the Dawn Princess, said the incident had not affected the itinerary and the cruise had continued as scheduled. "While the spokeswoman said Princess Cruises was conducting a full investigation into the incident, passengers said they had been told by crew the "fire suppression system" was not working," the report in Sun Herald said.