Norwegian Jade
As Pride of Hawaii Kai before the Meyer Werft shipyard in Papenburg
- Pride of Hawaii (2006-2008)
IMO no. 9304057
The Norwegian Jade (formerly Pride of Hawaii (German: Pride of Hawaii) ) is built at the Meyer Werft GmbH in Papenburg cruise ship in the Panamax class.
It is 294,14 meters long ( LOA ), 32.2 meters wide ( 37.88 m Overall beam ) and a draft of 8.60 meters. The ship has been surveyed with 93 558 GT. On board 2466 passengers can be accommodated in cabins 1233, also found about 1,100 crew members place. The five MAN diesel generators with a total of 72,000 kW generating electricity for the two pod drives with a total of 53,000 kW and for the entire board operation. The maximum speed is 25 knots.
History
The ship was from spring 2005 to spring 2006 as the Pride of Hawaii under construction and was undocked on 19 February 2006. On 12 March 2006 the Ems Passage, on 13 March 2006 the ship came in Eemshaven; start from there until delivery sea trials on the North Sea. On 3 April 2006, the Pride of Hawaii came for a few days in dry dock in Hamburg to carry out improvements to the drive. From there, they ran out again on 6 April 2006. To check the pod drive was the Pride of Hawaii from 15 to 19 April 2006 at the Lloyd Werft Bremerhaven dock.
On 19 April 2006, the " Pride of Hawaii" was the Meyer Werft to the NCL Corporation Ltd.. , Miami / USA, delivered. The ship was transferred without passengers by the shipping company to Baltimore / USA, on May 22, was the baptism in Los Angeles; then it took the regular cruise service on off Hawaii for NCL America.
On Monday, November 12, 2007, it was confirmed that 225 of the 2,500 passengers were infected with human noroviruses. The ship returned after a seven -day trip to the harbor of Honolulu. The U.S. Department of Health initiated an investigation.
In February 2008, the ship was withdrawn from the Hawaii market. After a short conversion in the dock, it was incorporated under the new name Norwegian Jade in the rest of the NCL fleet. Since the 2008 summer season, it is used in European waters. After a statement of the shipping company to the Norwegian Jade for the first time an NCL ship remain all year stationed in Europe. Currently it offers year-round various Mediterranean cruises on: During the summer months it is traveling from Venice, Eastern Mediterranean and the Adriatic Sea, in winter it is based in Civitavecchia, where she also in the eastern Mediterranean, in part, to the Middle East, traveling.