MS Bremen

• Frontier Spirit

Germanischer Lloyd

IMO: 8907424

The Bremen is a cruise ship in the shipping company Hapag -Lloyd Cruises. It was built in 1990 as Frontier Spirit in Japan came in 1993 to the fleet and will be used for expedition cruises.

Events

Accident in 2001

On 22 February 2001, the Bremen was flooded on the trip from southern Argentina to Rio de Janeiro from a 30 meter high rogue wave. The ship was doing heavy damage it, so among other things, a bridge plate of the water masses from the frame was pushed inward. By invading salt water parts of the electronics and in consequence also the main engine failed. The ship drifted with 40 degree list about 30 minutes to maneuver in the lake before the team was able to assemble the disassembled for maintenance auxiliary diesel engines in heavy seas and start to regain his help with the control of the Bremen. Four days later, the ship was towed as a disabled vessel in the port of Buenos Aires.

Discovery of the island in 2003

On a cruise through the Antarctic discovered passengers and crew of a dinghy on February 2, 2003, a new island in the ice as well as a new channel. They are named "Bremen island " or " Bremen channel " and carried both into the card.

Rescue a crew member in 2009

A crew member of the Bremen was closing his right hand in an automatic, watertight bulkhead seriously injured. The Bremen was located about 815 km south of Invercargill at this time. Therefore, two helicopters flew from Southland in New Zealand despite bad weather going to bring him to the hospital for a necessary surgery. The man was then brought in heavy seas by winds from the deck of Bremen on board the helicopter because the helicopter due to the stormy sea could not land on the deck. Since the range of the helicopter is only at about 1000 km, they flew on the way back first to Campbell Iceland, where they were refueled. The injured man was initially flown to Southland Hospital, from where he was transferred to Christchurch the next day.