Crown Iris
 The Ship as Thomson Majesty
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The Crown Iris is a cruise ship operated by the Mano Maritime shipping company .
history
The ship was on 23 January 1990 for the Birka Line in the Wärtsilä Marine Perno shipyard in Turku ( Finland ) to set keel . After the bankruptcy of the shipyard, Birka Line invested in the successor company Kværner Masa-Yards with the value of the half-finished shell. On February 27, 1990, Birka Line returned its stake in the shipyard, and the shell was taken over by Majesty Cruise Line. The launching of the ship on 16 November 1990. Completed it was on July 1, 1992nd
The maiden voyage from Southampton to New York began on July 7, 1992. On July 21, 1992, the ship was christened Royal Majesty . In the following years the ship chartered the Dolphin Cruise Line in the Caribbean .
In May 1997 the Norwegian Cruise Line took over the ship, had it renovated and renamed it Norwegian Majesty in November 1997 . Like two other ships in the NCL fleet before, the Norwegian Majesty was extended from January 16 to April 1, 1999 at the Lloyd shipyard in Bremerhaven. The 33.60 m long middle section was delivered to the Lloyd shipyard by Aker MTW shipyard in Wismar . The Norwegian Majesty was used in Alaska , South America , the Caribbean and Bermuda for mostly seven-day cruises .
In 2008 the ship was transferred twice to other NCL companies and sold to Louis Cruise Lines in April 2008 . It remained under full charter with NCL until October 2009. In December 2009 it took up service as Louis Majesty with Louis Cruise Lines, the area of operation was mainly in the Mediterranean. Since then, the main chimney, which is still blue, has had a broken red circle as the shipping company's trademark. In August 2011, all cruises on the Louis Majesty for winter 2011/2012 were canceled. Instead, the ship should sail from Piraeus by the end of 2011 and then be overhauled at a shipyard by March 2012.
From May 1, 2012, the ship was named Thomson Majesty and was chartered for Thomson Cruises , a British subsidiary of TUI . It has been sailing under the Maltese flag ever since . The charter contract expired in December 2017, the ship was renamed Majesty and launched in Piraeus . Celestyal Cruises (formerly Louis Cruise Lines) operated the Majesty from March to April 2018 .
In July 2018 the ship was sold to the Israeli shipping company Mano Maritime. It was renamed Princess Iris and brought under the Panamanian flag . The ship has been operating under the name Crown Iris since 2019 .
Incidents
On June 10, 1995 at 10:25 p.m. Eastern Standard Time, the ship ran aground ten nautical miles east of Nantucket as Royal Majesty under the Panamanian flag, after the GPS receiver, officers on watch and the integrated bridge system had not been in position for over 34 hours determined by satellite but by dead reckoning. This resulted in a deviation of the actual position from the displayed position of around 17 nautical miles at the time of the stranding. The 1,509 people on board were unharmed, the property damage amounted to about seven million US dollars.
On March 3, 2010, while on a voyage in the Mediterranean , the Louis Majesty suffered a sea blow in bad weather , in which a German and an Italian passenger were killed and 14 others were injured. The shipping company reduced the event to three waves of around eight meters and thus "exceptionally high" waves. In this incident, several windows of a saloon on the fifth deck in the bow area of the ship were destroyed. At the time of the accident, there was a storm with wind speeds of over 100 km / h. The ship then called at the port of Barcelona .
On February 10, 2013, another fatal accident occurred on board the Thomson Majesty . During a rescue exercise, several crew members and their lifeboat fell into the water, killing five people.
On October 21, 2016, there was a fire in the engine room.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Publications. Retrieved February 28, 2018 .
- ^ Louis Cruise Lines: Cancellations for the Majesty , touristik aktuell, August 2, 2011.
- ↑ Louis Cruises: No further cancellations for Majesty , touristik aktuell, August 3, 2011.
- ^ Thomson Majesty ship details , Thomson Cruises.
- ↑ Celestyal Cruises takes over Thomson Majesty as Celestyal Majesty for Cuba. Ships and Cruises, March 14, 2017, accessed December 9, 2017 .
- ↑ The M / V Majesty Will Sail Iconic Aegean Cruises During March and April 2018. Celestyal Cruises, November 7, 2017, accessed March 21, 2018 .
- ↑ The M / V Majesty Will Sail Iconic Aegean Cruises During March and April 2018 , Celestyal Cruises, November 7, 2017.
- ^ Monty Mathisen: Louis Announces Sale of Majesty , Cruise Industry News, July 26, 2018.
- ↑ Celestyal Cruises vend le Majesty, sans doute à Mano. Mer et Marine, July 27, 2018, accessed July 28, 2018 (French).
- ↑ Mano Maritime buys Majesty from Louis Group. Seatrade Cruise News, August 3, 2018, accessed October 31, 2018 .
- ↑ US file number NTSB / MAR-97 / 0l , (English)
- ↑ Two killed as giant waves hit Mediterranean cruise ship , BBC News, March 3, 2010.
- ↑ Giant waves hit the cruise ship - two dead. , Spiegel, March 3, 2010.
- ↑ Giant waves in the Mediterranean? - How unusual were the waves that damaged the cruise ship “Louis Majesty” on March 3rd, 2010? , Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht.
- ↑ Five dead during a Canary Island cruise , Süddeutsche Zeitung, February 10, 2013.
- ↑ Thomson Majesty: Driveless after a fire in the engine room. Schiffsjournal, October 24, 2016, accessed October 25, 2016 .