PRINSENDAM ROYAL VIKING SUN

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Built under yard No 1296 as a cruise vessel by Oy Wärtsila Ab, Turku, Finland for the Royal Viking Line a daughter of the Kloster Cruise A/S.
May 1988 launched under the name ROYAL VIKING SUN.
Tonnage 37.845 gross, 14.054 net, 6.150 dwt., dim. 204 x 28.9 x 7.35m. (draught). Length pp 171.5m.
Powered by four Wärtsilla-Sulzer type 8 ZAL 40S oil engines, 21.120 kW, reduction geared to two controllable pitch propellers, speed 21.8 knots.
Passenger accommodation for 768 passengers in 384 staterooms.
Crew 469, crew cabins 247.
38% of the staterooms have their own private verandahs, and all have either large windows or floor to ceiling glass doors. A third of the staterooms are suites or in the de luxe categories. Most of the common recreation spaces are located on the main deck. The show lounge, restaurant nightclub, casino and two other restaurants are on deck 8, the Norway deck.
The spacious main restaurant can accommodate all passengers in a single seating and also all passengers can be seated in the show lounge.
Of the 384 passenger cabins all are double cabins with no single cabins. Other passenger amenities include an observation lounge to seat 120, winter garden lounge, veranda café, gourmet restaurant seating 78, piano lounge, smokers club, wine bar, card room, cocktail room, library, arcade and cinema.
The cruise vessel was when built one of the spacious cruise vessels in the world with 1/3 more space but only 4% more passengers.
Fitted out with stabilizers and two bow-thrusters.

26 November 1988 delivered to owners, building cost more as 125 million USA dollars, registered in the Bahamas, homeport Nassau.

Sailed from Turky to Greenwich, U.K. where she berthed on 29 November 1988.
After arrival a gala-diner was given attended by Prince Charles in honor of the Save the Child Fund.
She sailed on 30 November for her first North Atlantic crossing bound for Fort Lauderdale, USA, then via the Panama Canal to San Francisco.
08 Jan. 1989 at San Francisco the wife of the famous film actor James Stewart christened her.
The same day she sailed out for a 100-day world cruise.
April 1989 again she made a Transatlantic voyage, and in May two cruises in the Mediterranean.
During the summer of 1989 she made a few Baltic and Norway cruises from Copenhagen.

1994 The Cunard Line Ltd. bought the Royal Viking Line for $ 170 million including the ROYAL VIKING SUN.
04 April 1996 she struck a coral reef in the Strait of Tiran in a position 28 00N 34 28E, whilst on a passage from Hodeidah to Aqaba, she lost her engine power and had to be towed into Sharm el Sheikh. Later towed to Suez and then to Malta for docking and repairs. She arrived Valletta on 29 April 1996, she sailed from Valetta on completing of the repairs on 12 June 1996.
She sailed with a red painted funnel, before the funnel was painted white.
26 November 1999 chartered by Seabourn Cruise Line, Oslo, Norway and renamed SEABOURN SUN.
April 2002 Sold to Holland America Line, (HAL) Antillen N.V., Rotterdam renamed PRINSENDAM.
23 April 2002 delivered to the HAL.
03 June 2002 after a refurbishment in service for the HAL.
13 June 2002 she made her first cruise from Southampton for the new owners. Thereafter used for cruises world wide.
2008 As given by Equasis; same name and owner, IMO No 8700280.

She is also on Fiji 1999 $2 sg 1047, and Tristan da Cunha 1991 $1 sg MS 513, scott 495 as ROYAL VIKING SUN.

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2017 In service. Same name and owner.

Update on ROYAL VIKING SUN/PRINSENDAM:
Holland America Line announced that PRINSENDAM has been sold and will leave its fleet July 1, 2019 and transfer to the German cruise company Phoenix Reisen. Following the sale, the 37,983-ton, 835-guest PRINSENDAM is being chartered back to Holland America Line to continue sailing its planned voyages through July 1, 2019, the company said, in a statement. PRINSENDAM’s itineraries from July 1, 2019, onward are scheduled to be assimilated by ROTTERDAM. VOLENDAM and VEENDAM. Holland America Line is reaching out to booked guests and their travel professionals to re-accommodate guests on these cruises. “PRINSENDAM has proudly served our guests since 2002, and we share in the fondness that many of our loyal cruisers have for this special ship,” said Orlando Ashford, president of Holland America Line. “As we look to the future and focus on delivering the programming and innovations that our guests are asking for, we remain focused on exceeding guest expectations on every cruise and will continue to offer the unique itineraries that PRINSENDAM sailed on our other, smaller ships. The PRINSENDAM will be renamed in AMERA ” PRINSENDAM was built in 1988 as ROYAL VIKING SUN for Royal Viking Line. The ship was operated by Cunard Line from 1994 through 1998 and then transferred to Seabourn Cruise Line, where it became SEABOURN SEA in 1999. In 2002 the ship joined the Holland America Line fleet and was renamed PRINSENDAM.
Source : cruiseindustrynews.

July 2018 Owned by Rhein Princess Ltd. Seattle USA not renamed, under the Netherlands flag and registry.
June 2019 sold to Amera Shipping Ltd., Limassol, Cyprus renamed in AMERA. Under the Bahamas flag and registry.

May 2020, alongside in the port of Emden, Germany.
2024 In service under the name of AMERA IMO No 8700280 same owner.




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