Norwegian Breakaway

Last updated

Norwegian Breakaway
Norwegian Breakaway Argostoli.jpg
Norwegian Breakaway in Argostoli, 2023
History
Civil Ensign of the Bahamas.svg Bahamas
NameNorwegian Breakaway
Owner Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings
Operator Norwegian Cruise Line
Port of registry Nassau, Civil Ensign of the Bahamas.svg  Bahamas [1]
Ordered17 August 2011
Builder Meyer Werft, Papenburg, Germany
Yard numberS678
Laid down21 September 2011
Launched30 April 2013
Sponsored by The Rockettes
Christened8 May 2013
Maiden voyage30 April 2013
In service2013–present
Identification
StatusIn service
General characteristics
Type Breakaway-class cruise ship
Tonnage145,655  GT [1]
Length325.64 m (1,068 ft 4 in) [1]
Beam
  • 39.7 m (130 ft 3 in) - at waterline [1]
  • 51.7 m (169.7 ft) - maximum [2]
Height61 m (200 ft)
Draft8.6 m (28 ft 3 in) [1]
Decks18
Installed power
  • 2 ×  MAN 14V48/60CR (2 × 16,800 kW)
  • 2 × MAN 12V48/60CR (2 × 14,400 kW)
PropulsionTwo ABB XO Azipods (2 × 17.5 MW) Three Brunvoll bow thrusters (3 × 3 MW)
Speed21.5 knots (39.8 km/h; 24.7 mph)
Capacity3,963 [2]
Crew1,657 [2]

Norwegian Breakaway is a cruise ship of Norwegian Cruise Line. It, along with Norwegian Getaway, are the first two ships in "Project Breakaway" ordered by Norwegian Cruise Line. They were named through a public contest - a contestant submitted the name Norwegian Breakaway, which was announced on 14 September 2011.

Contents

History

The ship, along with her sister Norwegian Getaway, were the first two ships in "Project Breakaway" ordered by Norwegian Cruise Line. [3] The two ships were named through a public contest; Kimberly Powell submitted the name Norwegian Breakaway, which was announced on 14 September 2011. [4]

Construction of Norwegian Breakaway began on 21 September 2011, when the first piece of steel was cut at the Meyer Werft shipyard in Papenburg, Germany. [5] The ship's godmothers are the New York dancing troupe The Rockettes. [6] She was delivered to NCL on 25 April 2013. Following the handover, Norwegian Breakaway left the port of Bremerhaven, heading for Rotterdam. Following several inaugural events, she started her transatlantic cruise from Southampton to New York City, where the naming ceremony took place. [7] On 12 May 2013 she headed to Bermuda to start her seven-day cruises. [8]

Norwegian Breakaway was home ported at the New York Passenger Ship Terminal in Manhattan, making seven-night cruises to Bermuda (May through September) and seven-night cruises to the Bahamas and Florida (October thru April). [9] She is the largest cruise ship homeported year-round from New York City. [10] Beginning in late 2018, Breakaway will leave New York, traveling to New Orleans, followed by Miami in early 2019, before sailing out of the Orlando-area port, Port Canaveral, in November 2019. [11]

Design

She is 146,600  GT in size, and has capacity for 3,963 passengers, double occupancy. [5] At launch, Norwegian Breakaway was the world's ninth largest cruise ship by gross tonnage. The ship has a total of 1,604 staterooms and 350 suites. [12]

Onboard features include a restaurant, Ocean Blue, by Geoffrey Zakarian, and a comedy club, in which a Second City company performs. Peter Max designed the hull art.

Incidents

On 17 September 2013, a woman fell two decks from her exterior balcony prior to arriving in Bermuda. [13] On 3 February 2014, a 4-year-old fell into the pool and drowned, while a 6-year-old was revived and evacuated by Marine helicopter to a hospital. [14] On 28 July 2014, a 4-year-old boy fell off his bunk and had to be evacuated by a Marine helicopter to a hospital after sustaining a head injury. [15] On 20 July 2016, one crewmember was killed and three were injured by an accident during a rescue boat drill. [16]

2018 blizzard

On 4 January 2018, the Breakaway bound for New York passed through the January 2018 North American blizzard, causing major flooding in passenger staterooms. [17] Some rooms were so badly flooded that their occupants resorted to sleeping in the public spaces. Footage of the ordeal showed the sides of the ship being hit by waves as high as 30 feet (9.1 m), and the ship was at an inclination with the shape of the waves. Some guests had suffered seasickness at that point. While Norwegian Cruise Line released a formal apology, the incident had sparked outrage that some guests were traumatized to the point of refusing to cruise again, while some either threatened a class action lawsuit or demanded full compensation. The ship's late arrival cut the following 14-day cruise short by one day. [17] [18] [19]

COVID-19 pandemic

On 19 March 2020, it was reported that Norwegian Cruise Line had sent a letter on 18 March 2020 to passengers of the cruise that began on 7 March 2020 and ended on 14 March 2020 that someone who had been on the same cruise had tested positive for SARS-CoV-2. [20] After showing symptoms, a passenger had checked into a hospital at Ocho Rios, Jamaica during a scheduled stop and was eventually medically evacuated to Broward Hospital in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, where she tested positive. [20] [21] [22] [23] This passenger died on 9 April 2020 in isolation at the hospital, after being on a ventilator for nearly 30 days. [24] Many other passengers started showing symptoms but had difficulty getting tested. [20] [21]

Passengers were wondering why the company took so long to inform passengers of the initial positive test, as they had started learning about the result through local news sources and social media instead. [20] [22] Passengers complained that, had they been informed earlier of the test, they could have taken precautions to avoid spreading the virus any further. [20] [25] It was also reported that the disembarkation process was "surprisingly routine", with one former passenger stating that there was "[n]o temperature check, no screenings, no questions asked, nothing", and that he "just walked away from the ship, got on a shuttle and left". [25]

On 24 March 2020, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported that two former passengers from Westmoreland County had tested positive. [21] At the time, there were 11 confirmed cases in the county. [21]

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Royal Caribbean International</span> Norwegian–American cruise line

Royal Caribbean International (RCI), formerly Royal Caribbean Cruise Line (RCCL), is a cruise line founded in 1968 in Norway and organized as a wholly owned subsidiary of Royal Caribbean Group since 1997.

<i>Explorer of the Seas</i> Voyager-class cruise ship operated by Royal Caribbean International

Explorer of the Seas is a Voyager-class cruise ship owned and operated by Royal Caribbean International, completed in 2000. She can accommodate over 3,000 guests, including scientists making use of a built-in atmospheric and oceanographic laboratory operated by the University of Miami's Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science. The lab, with its attendant educational and outreach programs for passengers, was discontinued in 2007.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Norwegian Cruise Line</span> American cruise line

Norwegian Cruise Line (NCL) is an American cruise line founded in Norway in 1966, incorporated in the Bahamas and headquartered in Miami. It is the fourth-largest cruise line in the world by passengers, controlling about 8.6% of the total worldwide share of the cruise market by passengers as of 2021. It is wholly owned by parent company Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings.

<i>Norwegian Spirit</i> Cruise ship

Norwegian Spirit is a Leo-class cruise ship operated by Norwegian Cruise Line (NCL). She was built in 1998 for Star Cruises as SuperStar Leo by the Meyer Werft shipyard in Papenburg, Germany. In 2004 she was transferred to NCL and renamed Norwegian Spirit.

<i>Norwegian Dawn</i> Cruise ship

Norwegian Dawn is a cruise ship that entered service in 2002 and is in operation with Norwegian Cruise Line.

MV <i>Dreamward</i> Ship built in 1992

MS Dreamward was a cruise ship owned and operated by Star Cruises. She was built in 1992 by the Chantiers de l'Atlantique shipyard in St. Nazaire, France as MS Dreamward for traffic with Norwegian Cruise Line. In 1998 she was lengthened at Lloyd Werft in Bremerhaven, Germany and renamed as Norwegian Dream. In late 2012, she was transferred to the fleet of Star Cruises and renamed SuperStar Gemini.

<i>Norwegian Star</i> Ship from 2001

Norwegian Star is a Dawn-class cruise ship operated by Norwegian Cruise Line (NCL). Ordered by and intended for Star Cruises, it was originally named SuperStar Libra before being transferred to NCL. Norwegian Star is a Panamax cruise ship; its 294-meter-length (965 ft) and 32.2-meter-beam (105.6 ft) nears the limit for ships transiting the Panama Canal through the original set of locks.

MS <i>Crown Iris</i> Cruise ship built in 1992

MS Crown Iris is a cruise ship owned by the Israeli cruise line Mano Maritime since 2018. She was originally ordered by Birka Line as MS Birka Queen from the Wärtsilä Marine Turku Shipyard in Finland, but completed by Kvaerner Masa-Yards as MS Royal Majesty for Majesty Cruise Line. In 1997 she was sold to Norwegian Cruise Line as MS Norwegian Majesty and lengthened by 33.76 m at the Lloyd Werft shipyard in Bremerhaven, Germany. She was sold to Louis Cruises as MS Louis Majesty from 2008 to 2012 when she was chartered to Thomson Cruises as MS Thomson Majesty before being returned to Louis Cruises/Celestyal Cruises, as the Majesty. In 2018 the ship was sold to Mano Maritime.

<i>Norwegian Jewel</i> Cruise ship

Norwegian Jewel is a cruise ship operated by Norwegian Cruise Line (NCL). She is the lead vessel of NCL's Jewel-class cruise ships and entered service in 2005. The vessel sails primarily in the western Pacific Ocean.

<i>Pride of America</i> Cruise ship

MS Pride of America is a cruise ship operated by NCL America, a division of Norwegian Cruise Lines, to sail itineraries in the Hawaiian Islands. Construction of the ship began in 2000 in the United States as part of a plan for a U.S.-built and U.S.-flagged cruise ship under Project America, but the project failed and she was eventually purchased by Norwegian Cruise Lines and completed in Germany. She was inaugurated in 2005, and was the first new U.S. flagged, U.S.-built deep water passenger ship in nearly fifty years since the SS Argentina of 1958.

<i>Norwegian Gem</i> Cruise ship

Norwegian Gem is a Jewel-class cruise ship of Norwegian Cruise Line (NCL). She is the final cruise ship of the Jewel class and was built by German shipbuilder Meyer Werft.

<i>Norwegian Jade</i> Cruise ship

Norwegian Jade is a cruise ship for Norwegian Cruise Line (NCL), originally built as Pride of Hawaii for their NCL America division. She was christened in a ceremony at the San Pedro Pier in Los Angeles, California on 22 May 2006. The vessel is a Panamax form-factor ship that was built at Meyer Werft Shipyard, in Papenburg, Germany, and registers at just over 93,500 gross tons.

MS <i>Black Watch</i> (1971)

MS Black Watch was a Royal Viking Star-class cruise ship. She was built by Wärtsilä Helsinki Shipyard, Finland for Royal Viking Line as Royal Viking Star, entering service in 1972 as the lines first ship. She has also sailed for Norwegian Cruise Lines as Westward and Royal Cruise Line as Star Odyssey. As of June 18, 2022 she has been beached for scrapping as Odin at Alang, India.

<i>Norwegian Epic</i> Cruise ship

Norwegian Epic is a cruise ship of the Norwegian Cruise Line built under NCL's F3 Project by the STX Europe Chantiers de l'Atlantique shipyard in Saint-Nazaire, France. When built she was the third largest cruise ship in the world.

MV <i>Balmoral</i> (2008) 2008 cruise ship

Balmoral is a cruise ship owned and operated by Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines. She was built in 1988 by the Meyer Werft shipyard in Papenburg, West Germany, as Crown Odyssey for Royal Cruise Line. She has also sailed for the Norwegian Cruise Line as Norwegian Crown and Orient Lines as Crown Odyssey. In 2007–2008 she was lengthened by 30 m (98 ft) at the Blohm + Voss shipyard in Hamburg prior to entering service with her current operator.

<i>Norwegian Getaway</i> Cruise ship

Norwegian Getaway is a cruise ship of the Norwegian Cruise Line. She was built by Meyer Werft in Papenburg, Germany, and was delivered to her owner on 10 January 2014. At the time of her christening she was the world's ninth-largest cruise ship with a passenger capacity of 3,969 and a crew of 1,640.

<i>Norwegian Escape</i> Cruise ship

Norwegian Escape is a Breakaway Plus-class cruise ship operated by Norwegian Cruise Line (NCL), a subsidiary of Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings. She was the fleet's first Breakaway Plus-class ship to be delivered and was designed with larger dimensions and gross tonnage than her older sister ships, Norwegian Breakaway and Norwegian Getaway, at 164,998 GT.

<i>Norwegian Joy</i> Cruise ship operated by Norwegian Cruise Line

Norwegian Joy is a Breakaway Plus-class cruise ship operated by Norwegian Cruise Line (NCL) and is the second of four Breakaway Plus-class vessels in the company's fleet. Built by Meyer Werft in Papenburg, Germany, she was delivered in April 2017.

<i>Norwegian Encore</i> Ship of Norwegian Cruise Line (NCL)

Norwegian Encore is a Breakaway Plus-class cruise ship operated by Norwegian Cruise Line (NCL). She is the fourth Breakaway Plus-class ship in the fleet, following sister ships Norwegian Bliss, Norwegian Escape, and Norwegian Joy, and debuted in November 2019.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">COVID-19 pandemic on cruise ships</span>

Early in 2020, in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, the disease spread to a number of cruise ships, with the nature of such ships – including crowded semi-enclosed areas, increased exposure to new environments, and limited medical resources – contributing to the heightened risk and rapid spread of the disease.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "Norwegian Breakaway (31388)". Vessel Register for DNV. DNV . Retrieved 22 September 2013.
  2. 1 2 3 "Norwegian Breakaway Cruise Ship". Norwegian Cruise Line. NCL Corporation Ltd. Retrieved 27 April 2017.
  3. ↑ "Project Breakaway Ships". ship-technology.com. Archived from the original on 3 April 2012. Retrieved 6 December 2018.
  4. ↑ "Norwegian Decides Winning Names for Its Two New Freestyle Cruising Ships". Shipbuilding Tribune. 14 September 2011. Archived from the original on 31 March 2012. Retrieved 16 October 2011.
  5. 1 2 "Norwegian Cruise Line marks steel-cutting for new Breakaway ship". USA Today. 21 September 2011. Archived from the original on 25 October 2011. Retrieved 16 October 2011.
  6. ↑ "New York Icons The Rockettes Named Godmothers of Norwegian Breakaway". NCL. 2 July 2016. Retrieved 28 April 2020.
  7. ↑ "Long Island's & NYC's News Source - Newsday". Newsday. Retrieved 28 April 2020.
  8. ↑ "Meyer Werft: Cruise Ship 'Norwegian Breakaway' Delivered". Offshore Energy. 25 April 2013. Retrieved 28 April 2020.
  9. ↑ "New York City to Become Home Port for NCL's New Passenger Ship Norwegian Breakaway". Shipbuilding Tribune. 7 October 2011. Archived from the original on 31 March 2012. Retrieved 16 October 2011.
  10. ↑ "Norwegian Breakaway to Begin Sailing in May 2013". Cruise Fever. 10 October 2011. Retrieved 9 October 2012.
  11. ↑ Tribou, Richard. "Norwegian Breakaway to call Port Canaveral home in 2019". OrlandoSentinel.com. Retrieved 19 June 2018.
  12. ↑ "Norwegian Breakaway cabins and suites". www.cruisemapper.com. Retrieved 24 September 2023.
  13. ↑ "Passenger fall means early stop for ship", Bermuda Sun 20 September 2013
  14. ↑ Bacon, John (4 February 2014). "4-year-old boy dies aboard cruise ship". USA TODAY . Retrieved 2 January 2015.
  15. ↑ "Coast Guard medevacs child from cruise ship Norwegian Breakaway 100 miles southeast of Atlantic City | Coast Guard News". coastguardnews.com.
  16. ↑ Bureau, INQUIRER net US. "Filipino dies in cruise ship safety drill accident in Bermuda". globalnation.inquirer.net.{{cite web}}: |last= has generic name (help)
  17. 1 2 ""It was hell for me": Woman recalls cruise ship ride during "bomb cyclone"". www.cbsnews.com.
  18. ↑ "Norwegian Cruise Sailed Through Thick Of Winter Storm « CBS New York". Newyork.cbslocal.com. 5 January 2018. Retrieved 10 January 2018.
  19. ↑ "Norwegian Cruise Line passengers on ship that sailed through 'bomb cyclone' describe 'nightmare' ride". Fox News. 6 January 2018. Retrieved 10 January 2018.
  20. 1 2 3 4 5 Dange, Sanika (19 March 2020). "'Infuriating': Cruise line tells passengers about positive COVID-19 case on ship days after trip ends". WESH.
  21. 1 2 3 4 "A cough, a cruise ship and a Westmoreland County case of coronavirus". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
  22. 1 2 McMillion, Dave. "West Virginia woman who was on cruise with coronavirus patient criticizes handling of situation". Herald-Mail Media.
  23. ↑ "NCL Norwegian Breakaway Cruise Itinerary 2019, 2020, 2021 and Sailings | Crew Center". crew-center.com.
  24. ↑ "Cruise Ships Set Sail Knowing the Deadly Risk to Passengers and Crew". Wall Street Journal. 1 May 2020. Retrieved 14 May 2020.
  25. 1 2 "Cruise passenger returns to Florida home but fears he may be carrying coronavirus". FOX 35 Orlando. 19 March 2020.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.