A Canadian cruise ship entertainer is back home after an ordeal aboard a cruise ship which faced a fire which it could not control.

As reported by CBA, a fire broke out on the Le Boreal

"We were all concentrated on the top deck in the front, to get away from the smoke, which was coming from the back in the bottom," he said from his home in Woodstock.

The entertainer was reportedly ordered into a life raft after five hours in the darkness. 

The RAF conducted a major evacuation of a very serious cruise ship fire.