National Geographic Polaris

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National Geographic Polaris
As Oresund in Malmö, September 1978
As Oresund in Malmö, September 1978
Ship data
flag EcuadorEcuador Ecuador
other ship names

Öresund (1960–1981)
Lindblad Polaris (1981–1986)
Polaris (1986–2008)
Polaris (2010)

Ship type Cruise ship
home port Guayaquil
Shipping company Lindblad Expeditions
Shipyard Aalborg Værft , Aalborg
Build number 55
Launch November 24, 1959
takeover June 16, 1960
Commissioning June 21, 1960
Decommissioning March 2009
Whereabouts Scrapped in Ecuador in 2010
Ship dimensions and crew
length
72.12 m ( Lüa )
width 13.03 m
Draft Max. 4.25 m
measurement 2,214 GT
Machine system
machine 2 × Nohab-Polar-NM-16-S diesel engines
Machine
performanceTemplate: Infobox ship / maintenance / service format 		2,354 kW (3,201 hp)
Top
speed 		16 kn (30 km / h)
propeller 2 ×
Transport capacities
Permitted number of passengers 80 (until 1981 1,200)
Vehicle capacity 30 cars by 1981
Others
Registration
numbers 		IMO 5264704

The National Geographic Polaris was an Ecuador flag cruise ship that was last operated by Lindblad Expeditions . The ship, originally commissioned in 1960 as a ferry under the name Öresund , was converted for expedition cruises in 1981 and then changed name and operator several times. In 2010, the National Geographic Polaris was scrapped after fifty years of service in Ecuador.

history

The Öresund was built under construction number 55 in Aalborg Værft in Aalborg and was launched on November 24, 1959. After delivery to Svenska Lloyd on June 16, 1960, the ship began operating between Malmö and Copenhagen on June 21 .

The Öresund remained in service on this route for twenty years before it was sold to Lindblad Expeditions in 1980. In November 1981, the ship under its new name Lindblad Polaris was converted into an expedition cruise ship in Gothenburg . In April 1982 the Lindblad Polaris finally started its first voyage.

After just three years, the ship was decommissioned in 1985 and laid up in Stockholm . In December 1986 it came under the name Polaris under the management of Dry Cargo Sh Ltd. based in the Bahamas back on the road . After ten years in service, the Polaris went back to Lindblad Expeditions in 1996, which she used for voyages off the Galapagos Islands . In 2000 the flag was changed from the Bahamas to Ecuador.

In March 2008, the Polaris was named National Geographic Polaris , but was still managed by Lindblad and used together with the National Geographic Endeavor and the National Geographic Explorer . After another year in service, the now almost fifty-year-old ship was decommissioned in March 2009 and sold in 2010 under the shortened name Polaris to a local demolition yard in Ecuador, where it was scrapped.

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