Norwegian Escape

The Norwegian Escape shortly after launch
History
Name: Norwegian Escape
Owner: Norwegian Cruise Line
Builder: Meyer Werft
Cost: $ 1.4 billion (together with Norwegian Bliss)
Yard number: S693
Laid down: 19 September 2014[1]
Launched: 15 August 2015
Maiden voyage: 9 November 2015
In service: 23 October 2015
Identification:
General characteristics
Type: Cruise ship
Tonnage: 165,157 GT[2]
Length: 1,069 feet (325.9 m)[2]
Beam:
  • 136 feet (41.4 m) (waterline)[2]
  • 153 feet (46.5 m) (max)[2]
Draft: 28.29 feet (8.622 m)[2]
Decks: 20
Installed power:
  • 2 × MAN 14V48/60CR (2 × 16,800 kW)
  • 3 × MAN 12V48/60CR (3 × 14,400 kW)
  • 1 × Cat 3516C DH (1 × 2,500 kW)
Propulsion:
Capacity: 4,248[4]
Crew: 1,731[2]

Norwegian Escape is a cruise ship for Norwegian Cruise Line, in service since October 2015. It was built by Meyer Werft in Papenburg, Germany.

Design and description

Norwegian Escape is in the "Breakaway Plus" class of cruise ships which will include the Norwegian Escape and a second unit, originally named Norwegian Bliss. The Breakaway Plus class are being built by Meyer Werft in Papenburg, Germany, for Norwegian Cruise Line. The vessel entered service in October 2015, where it completed a series of short preview sailings from Hamburg, Germany and Southampton, UK. The 164,600 GT ship departed Southampton on 29 October 2015 on her transatlantic crossing to Miami, where the ship will be based year-round offering seven-night Caribbean cruises.

The name of the ship was selected in a contest on USA Today.[5] In 2014, Guy Harvey was chosen to paint the hull art.[6]

The Norwegian Escape is homeported in PortMiami, sailing seven-day Eastern Caribbean cruising to Tortola, British Virgin Islands; St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands; and Nassau, Bahamas. Norwegian Getaway will move to the Western Caribbean run.[7]

The first section was launched on December 5, 2014.[8] A second section was launched February 21, 2015. Norwegian Escape was floated out of Meyer Werft's building hall on August 15, 2015, with sea trials beginning on September 16. She was officially delivered to Norwegian Cruise Lines on October 22.,[9] and took circa 3500 passengers on her inaugural passenger cruise from Southampton to Miami, leaving Southampton (UK) on Thursday 29 October, arriving in Miami on Sunday 8 November

On November 9, 2015, the first godfather to a cruise ship, Pitbull, officially named the ship at a naming ceremony in Miami.

Features

Norwegian Escape features many new venues and facilities not found on her slightly smaller sister ships Norwegian Breakaway and Norwegian Getaway.

The ship hosts the first Jimmy Buffett's Margaritaville at sea, as well as a new restaurant called Bayamo by Jose Garces, which serves seafood dishes with a Latin twist conceived by the famous Iron Chef. Jose Garces also has a Tapas Bar called Pincho by Jose Garces onboard.

In partnership with the Pubbelly Boys, a new dining concept called Food Republic, allows diners to make their food and drinks orders from table-mounted iPads.

Other features include; one of the largest waterparks at sea, a multi-level ropes course, a snow room, 5 O'Clock Somewhere Bar as well as range of boutique shops including Lacoste and Carolina Herrera.

Million Dollar Quartet (musical) is performed in the main theatre onboard the ship.

The Norwegian Escape is 1,098 feet in legnth.[10]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Keel laid for Norwegian Escape". 2014-09-19. Retrieved 2014-09-20.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Norwegian Escape (331199)". DNV GL Portal. Det Norske Veritas. Retrieved 23 October 2014.
  3. ↑ ABB wins $180 million in orders from cruise ship builders in 2013 ABB, 6 December 2013. Retrieved 2013-12-06.
  4. ↑ "Norwegian Escape Cruise Ship". Norwegian Cruise Line. NCL Corporation Ltd. Retrieved 22 April 2016.
  5. ↑ "Norwegian Cruise Line Facebook Page". Retrieved 8 October 2013.
  6. ↑ Sloan, Gene (2014-03-12). "Sea creatures to adorn hull of new cruise ship". USA Today. Retrieved 2014-03-12.
  7. ↑ http://www.cruiseindustrynews.com/cruise-news/10800-norwegian-announces-201516-winter-deployment.html
  8. ↑ http://www.cruisetricks.de/meyer-werft-dockt-schiffsteil-der-norwegian-escape-aus/
  9. ↑ "Florida-bound Norwegian Escape hits the water". Orlando Sentinel. August 17, 2015. Retrieved August 31, 2015.
  10. ↑ "Norwegian Escape: what to expect on the world's newest cruise ship". The Telegraph. Retrieved 2016-04-22.

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