MS Arcadia (2005)

• Queen Victoria

Lloyd 's Register of Shipping

IMO no. 9226906

The Arcadia is a British cruise ship in the shipping company P & O Cruises. She's since 2005 and flying the flag of Bermuda with home port in Hamilton.

History

The ship was built in the Italian Fincantieri shipyard in Marghera (Venice ) under the hull number 6078. The Works originally granted the Holland- America Line, but before the keel laying of the ordered ship to the Cunard Line was sold, the left continue to build it under the proposed name of Queen Victoria. Even before finishing the ship to P & O Cruises was sold.

On 26 May 2004, the ship was floated in the building dock and completed in December 2004, the first test drives. After a construction period of 20 months and about 200 million pounds of construction costs, the ship was delivered on 24 March 2005 and baptized on 12 April in Southampton from the two-time Olympic gold medalist Kelly Holmes on the name Arcadia. The inaugural cruise led starting from 14 April 2005 from Southampton to the Mediterranean.

From November 26 to 20 December 2008, the Arcadia was rebuilt at Lloyd Werft in Bremerhaven. Here, 34 additional cabins were set up, among other things in the rear area. Thus, the capacity of the ship rose to 2,016 passengers in 1,010 cabins.