MS World Discoverer
The World Discoverer aground in the Roderick Dhu Bay
- Gu Discoverer
400 hp
IMO no. 7349053
The World Discoverer was a cruise ship.
The ship was built in 1974 in the shipyard Schichau Lower Weser in Bremerhaven. She ran a red hull until 1984. During the year it was acquired by Society Expeditions in Seattle, Washington, USA, and the inside completely refurbished at the Jurong Shipyard in Singapore - and the hull was angepönt dark blue. You should then continue as a yacht -class Cruiser for Heritage Cruises in New York charter. It was last operated by expedition cruise operators Society Expeditions, based in Bremen. Designed she was a passenger expedition ship that was to take cruise passengers to the most remote places on earth. This included special shipbuilding technical characteristics that enabled the advance in polar regions ( Arctic class A-1). In order to be able to bring passengers ashore outside of port facilities the ship was ten Zodiac inflatable boats, two tender boats equipped (with names Castor and Pollux ), and later a glass bottom boat.
The World Discoverer was the first passenger vessel through the Northwest Passage in 1985 coped with cruise passengers on board from west to east. The voyage under the command of Captain Heinz Aye took 32 days from the port of departure Nome ( Alaska) to the port of Halifax ( Nova Scotia ) / Canada. As one of the first ships brought the World Discoverer tourists to the Antarctic Peninsula, South Georgia, South Orkneys and the in the Arctic. Together with the smaller Lindblad Explorer, it has pioneered in the development of the Amazon for cruise passengers. The Amazon has traveled to Iquitos. To their area of operations included the most remote areas of the South Pacific, including islands such as Pitcairn, Ducie, Henderson ( Pitcairn Islands), Puka Puka ( Tuamotu Islands), Puka Rua, Fatu Hiva, which were hardly accessible by other means. After the opening of the border in the east and the Russian Arctic Ocean and previously inaccessible to visitors areas like Kamchatka, Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands were approached.
April 30, 2000 05:00 UTC ran the World Discoverer in the Sandfly Passage north of Honiara (Solomon Islands) to the still uncharted Mid- Reef on (9 ° 0 ' 0 " S, 160 ° 7' 12" E 9160.12 - ) and slit on the starboard side. To prevent sinking, the captain of the ship sat in the 1.4 nm further south past Roderick Dhu Bay due. Personal injury did not arise. After an investigation of the hull by divers, the ship was written off as a total loss. The stranded ship was looted in the aftermath of the residents in the civil war ends located Solomon Islands and further damaged. Have already begun attempted salvage an Australian salvage company were canceled. The wreck still lies at about 38 ° flip side off the island.
After the loss of the ship, the former Dream 21 was found as a new World Discoverer in service in 2002. This ship was called the meantime Prince Albert II and sailed under the name Silver Explorer since 2011. In 2004 the company expedition cruise operators Society Expeditions was insolvent.
Specifications
- Survey: 3,153 GRT / NRT 1,188
- Passengers: 134 people in 5 suites and 67 outside cabins on deck 7
The World Discoverer off the Australian east coast