Norwegian Joy

**Norwegian Joy**
	The Norwegian Joy in the Meyer Werft shipyard
Ship data
flag	Bahamas
Ship type	Cruise ship
class	Breakaway plus class
Callsign	C6CX3
home port	Nassau
Owner	Norwegian Cruise Line
Shipping company	Norwegian Cruise Line
Shipyard	Meyer shipyard , Papenburg
Build number	P. 694
building-costs	$ 920 million
Order	17th October 2012
Keel laying	5th April 2016
baptism	June 27, 2017
Launch	4th March 2017
takeover	April 27, 2017
Commissioning	Summer 2017
Ship dimensions and crew
length	333.46 m ( Lüa )
width	41.40 m
Draft	Max. 9.00 BRZ m
measurement	167,725 GT
crew	1,700
Machine system
Machine ; performance	76,800 kW (104,419 hp)
Service ; speed	22.5 kn (42 km / h)
propeller	2 × propeller pods
Transport capacities
Permitted number of passengers	3,900
Others
Registration ; numbers	IMO 9703796

The Norwegian Joy ( 挪威喜悅號郵輪 ) is a cruise ship of the Breakaway -Plus class , which for the shipping company Norwegian Cruise Line at the Meyer shipyard in Papenburg was built. It started cruise operations in mid-2017.

history

On October 17, 2012 Norwegian Cruise Line ordered the Norwegian Escape and agreed an option on the Norwegian Joy , which was originally to be called Norwegian Bliss . This ship was ordered in July 2013. Construction of the ship began on September 16, 2015.

On October 12, 2015, Norwegian Cruise Line announced that it would have the ship built specifically for the Chinese cruise market. On March 30, 2016 it was announced that the ship would not be launched as Norwegian Bliss , but as Norwegian Joy or 挪威喜悅號郵輪 and that Shanghai and Tianjin (Beijing) had been chosen as base ports .

The engine room section was built at the Neptun shipyard in Rostock and transferred to Papenburg in March 2016. The keel laying ceremony took place on April 5, 2016. On September 28 and October 8, 2016, a fire broke out on the ship at the shipyard.

As part of Meyer Werft's construction strategy , a first section was undocked on June 4, 2016. Another section was undocked on August 19, 2016 to allow the Genting Dream to undock . Both sections were then re-docked. On March 4, 2017, the ship was undocked. The ship was on 26./27. March 2017 via the Ems to Eemshaven and delivered to the shipping company on April 27, 2017. The ship was christened on June 27, 2017 in Shanghai by Wang Leehom .

commitment

The Norwegian Joy was used by the commissioning all year for Chinese passengers from Shanghai and Tianjin and drove exclusively Japanese ports on.

The ship left the Chinese cruise market in 2019 and was rebuilt at Sembawang in Singapore in March 2019 . Since April 2019 she has been in service in Alaska together with the sister ship Norwegian Bliss .