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Built as passenger vessel under yard No 306 by the Rauma yards O/Y, Rauma, Finland for the Discoverer Reederei GmbH. Germany.
03 September 1990 keel laid down
05 January 1991 launched under the name SOCIETY ADVENTURER.
Tonnage 8.378 grt, 2.554 net, 1.100dwt., dim. 122.83 x 18 x 7m. length bpp. 107.1m.
Powered by two 8-cyl. MAK oil 4SA engines, each 7.994bhp., speed 14knots. Two controllable pitch propellers. Fuel capacity 584m³.
Seven decks, and seven watertight bulkheads.
Ice strengthened.
Passenger accommodation for 200 passengers and 120 crew.
Registered under Panama flag.
After completing she was not taken by owners, laid up at Rauma. Renamed in HANSEATIC.
March 1993 delivered.

1992 Sold to Hanseatic Cruises (Bunnys Adventure & Cruise Shipping Co.Ltd., Bahamas) and operated by Hapag Lloyd Container Linie GmbH Schiffsmanagement.
She is used for discovery voyages around the world.
Passengers 188 with a crew of 170.

2009 Given by http://www.equasis.org IMO no 9000168, same owner and manager.

Tristan da Cunha 1998 60p sg 642, scott? and 2004 60P sg?, scott?

Source Germanischer Lloyd. Watercraft Philately 1999/67 Marine News 1993/301

Tristan da Cunha 2004 60p sg?, scott?

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27 March 1993 first cruise between Hamburg and Sevilla, Spain.
She is used for discovery voyages around the world.
Passengers 188 with a crew of 170.
29 August 1996 she went aground in the Simpson Strait, Canada.
05 September 1996 the passengers as part of the crew were evacuated to the Russian icebreaker KAPITAN DRANITSYN.
08 September 1996 she was refloated from the shoal where after she was repaired in Halifax, Canada.
After repair she resumed her cruises for the Hanseatic Tours.
13 July 1997 grounded in the Hinlopenfjord, Spitsbergen, her passengers were evacuated.
17 July 1997 she was refloated where after she was repaired.
23 August 2005 she went aground off Lurøy, Norway, she got a five metre hole in her hull after a while she refloated and sailed to Bodø, Norway, her passengers were before by tender landed in Bodø.
13 June 2013 when she was in drydock at the Bredo Shipyard in Bremerhaven, Germany, a fire broke out in the shipyard and her delivery date delayed, some cruises were cancelled.
27 August 2014 sailed in the North-East Passage till around 450 km from the Northpole at that time a world record for a cruise vessel.
September 2016 she sailed through the North-East Passage for a second time.


2018 Given by http://www.equasis.org IMO no 9000168, same owner and manager.

November 2018 her charter with Hapag Lloyd Kreuzfahrten will terminate and the charter will be taken over by One Ocean Expedition and she will be renamed RCGS RESOLUTE.
Her first cruise is from 16 – 28 November 2018 from a Chile port to the Antarctic.

The RCGS RESOLUTE will be sold at an auction in Curacao on June 22, 2020 according to a statement. The former HANSEATIC could have thus had its third new operator in three years. The ship had previously wrapped up its career with Hapag-Lloyd Cruises in 2018 and was then chartered on a long-term deal with One Ocean Expeditions. Following the demise of One Ocean Expeditions, the ship was arrested in Buenos Aires late last year. The shipowner, Bunnys Adventure and Cruise Shipping Company Limited, eventually paid to have the ship released. More trouble followed this year as the ice-class ship got into an incident with a Venezuelan naval vessel on the way back to Europe. Under management from Columbia Cruise Services, the RESOLUTE has been docked in Curacao ever since, with a skeleton crew aboard. According to court documents the shipowner is responsible for debts of just under $4 million. The 1991-built vessel is said to be in need of minor repair following the spring incident. The auction should attract plenty of interest from investors and players in the expedition cruise market.

2021 Sold to Nordic Heritage Expedition Cruis GmbH & Co.HG, and renamed HERITAGE ADVENTURER.
Under Portugal Flag and registry.
2023 Same name and owners.

Source: cruiseindustrynews

Tristan da Cunha 1998 60p sg 642, scott? and 2004 60P sg?, scott?

Source Germanischer Lloyd. Watercraft Philately 1999/67 Marine News 1993/301 FaktaomFartyg. Wikipedia.