DEUTSCHLAND cruise vessel 1998

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Built as a passenger cruise vessel under yard 328 by Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft AG, Kiel, Germany for the Deutschland Beteiligungsgesellschaft GmbH, Germany (Peter Deilmann Reederei) Neustadt, Holstein, Germany.
28 April 1997 laid down.
17 January 1998 launched as the DEUTSCHLAND.
Tonnage 22,496 grt, 8,264 net, 3,460 dwt, dim. 175.49 x 23.00 x 5.79m (draught).
Powered by two Krupp MaK_DMR 8M32 and two Krupp MaK-DMR 6M32 diesel engines, 12,320 kW., twin shafts, speed 20 knots.
Accommodation for 620 passengers.
11 May 1998 delivered to owners and christened the same day. IMO No 9141807.

After delivery, she made a short cruise with guest passengers.
16 May 1998 maiden cruise from Kiel to Norway.
1998 She was refitted with fewer passenger cabins, could carry 520 passengers.
May 1999 arrived at the HDW, Rendsburg for warranty matters.
23 May 2010 when she was in Eidfjord, Hardanger, Norway a fire broke out in the engine room, which was extinguished after a while.
24 May 2010 towed from Eidfjord to Bergen, Norway from where she on 30 May 2010 was towed to Germany for repair.
Later that year she was put again in service after repair.
15 January 2012 when passing through the Beagle Channel in the vicinity of the Italia glacier she grounded, refloated on own power without damage, she continues its cruise.
14 July 2011 arrived at London Docklands, where after she was used as a hotel ship for the Olympic Summer Games in 2012.
December 2014 arrived at Gibraltar where she was laid up.
19 May 2015 sold to Absolute Nevada LLC, Las Vegas, USA, managed by V Ships Leisure, under Bahama flag with homeport Nassau.
MS DEUTSCHLAND (starting in 2015 also sailing as WORLD ODYSSEY from September until April each year) is a cruise ship launched in 1998 and owned and operated by Peter Deilmann Cruises until 2015. She is decorated in the 1920s style as it could be seen in SS Columbus of Norddeutscher Lloyd. The ship carries 513 passengers and 260 crew members. She has a gross tonnage of 22,400 and has seven passenger-accessible decks.
The German television show Das Traumschiff ("The Dream Ship"), had been filmed on board for fifteen years as the MS DEUTSCHLAND travels to tourist destinations around the world.
In 2000, Air France Flight 4590 crashed near Paris. The New York City-bound Concorde charter flight had been carrying passengers for a sixteen-day cruise to South America onboard MS DEUTSCHLAND.
During the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, the German Olympic Committee used the MS DEUTSCHLAND as a hospitality ship.

On 19 May 2015, the MS DEUTSCHLAND was sold over to the Absolute Nevada Company based in the United States, which purchased the ship for approximately $21 million. The new owners took on approximately half of the crew. Initially, the ship was planned to serve as a floating university for the American organization Semester at Sea and in the process was reflagged to Nassau in the Bahamas. It was proposed that the ship would be renamed WORLD ODYSSEY following a refit at a northern European shipyard.
On 31 May 2015, Plantours announced that they would be chartering the ship for four sailings between 9 June 2015 and 29 July 2015 whilst its usual ship MS HAMBURG was repaired. The crew of MS HAMBURG travelled to Gibraltar to prepare the ship, before guests embarked on 9 June 2015 in Kiel. Places in the additional 80 cabins were made as a result of MS DEUTSCHLAND being larger than planned MS HAMBURG ship. It was on this occasion that MS DEUTSCHLAND began sailing under the Bahamas flag, and its funnel was painted into Plantours yellow branding.
From 20 June 2015 to 10 August 2015 the ship carried cruise tours to the North Sea, Norwegian Fjords, Svalbard, Greenland, the Faroes and Shetland Islands and to Hamburg City before ending in Kiel.
On 27 July 2015, the new owners of the ship announced that the ship would alternate between two roles. For part of the year, the ship would travel as WORLD ODYSSEY transporting "Semester at Sea" students; and for the other part of the year, it would be chartered to the German cruise company Phoenix Reisen, sailing under its traditional MS DEUTSCHLAND name. For this period the ship would carry two names, one for winter, other for summer.

Incidents
At approximately 12:30 on 23 May 2010 whilst in the Norwegian port of Eidfjord, Norway, a fire was detected in the engine room. Onboard were at that time 607 (or 608) people, including 364 passengers. All passengers and most of the crew and two Norwegian pilots were unhurt removed from the ship, only a small part of the crew remained on board. The fire was isolated to a limited area of the ship because of fire doors. The ship's 364 passengers travelled home. MS DEUTSCHLAND was then towed by tug boats to the Blohm + Voss shipyard in Hamburg for docking and repair, where the ship remained in the shipyard for thirty days. The fire damage had cost approximately two million euro and was paid by the ship's insurers. Three trips had been cancelled and service resumed on July 3, 2010, with a departure from Hamburg.
On 15 January 2012, the ship grounded in the Beagle Channel at the tip of South America. No one was injured and the ship was able to continue its journey after an investigation by the Federal Bureau for Maritime Casualty Investigation.
2020 In service, same owner.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS_DEUTSCHLAND
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