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Delivery of MSC
Seaview was delayed
by a few days.
FiNcaNTieRi/
iVaN saRFaTTaCRUISEWilliam Mayes
BRIEF NEWS
SILVERSEA • Hot on the heels
of the order for Silver Moon,
Silversea has ordered a third ship
in the Silver Muse series, to be
named Silver Dawn. Fincantieri’s
Sestri, Genoa yard will deliver the
new ship towards the end of 2021.
Silver Moon will be delivered from
the same yard in 2020 (see p.33).SEABOURN • Seabourn’s newest
ship, Seabourn Ovation, was
christened in Malta on 11 May,
during her maiden voyage, by
the singer Elaine Paige. This
seems to be the fi rst time that a
major passenger ship has been
named in Valletta.PRINCESS • In September 2018
the company’s Coral Princess
will undertake a historic 60-night
voyage from Los Angeles to
Shanghai and back, taking in
about 20 other ports, a fi rst for
Princess Cruises.OCEANIA • High water levels in
the St Lawrence River prevented
Oceania Cruises’ Marina from
sailing to Montreal, as she had
insuffi cient clearance to negotiate
the Laviolette Bridge. As Montreal
was the ship’s turn-round point,
1,200 passengers and their
luggage were offl oaded at Trois-
Rivieres, Quebec and bussed the
140 miles to their destination.
Passengers joining the ship had
to complete the same journey
in reverse.P&O CRUISES • The main
work carried out at the Damen
Shipyard Brest on P&O Crises’
Ventura involved the installation
of scrubbers, designed and built
by Damen. Other work included
maintenance of the stabilisers
and propulsion systems and full
hull repaint. The ship was back in
service as planned on 28 March.DREAM CRUISES • While
returning to Singapore with 3,
passengers, Genting Dream
suffered technical diffi culties
resulting in the need to utilise
four tugs to get her back to her
terminal and delaying her arrival
on 2 May by about fi ve hours. As
a result, the following two-night
cruise had to be cancelled.NEW SHIP UPDATE
MSC CRUISES
Delivery of MSC Seaview, the
second of the MSC Seaside class,
by Fincantieri was delayed by
a few days to 4 June, resulting
in a rescheduling of the naming
ceremony and cancellation of a
three-night preview cruise. She
was named in Genoa on 9 June
by Sophia Loren, rather than in
Civitavecchia as planned.
Her fi rst cruise began
the following day and the
5,179-passenger ship settled
into her Western Mediterraneancircuit, which incorporates turn-
round calls in Barcelona, Marseille
and Genoa.
The third ship in the MSC
Meraviglia series, an enlarged
version of the name ship, will
be christened in Hamburg on 2
November 2019. This series is
being built by STX at St Nazaire.
Northern Europe is set to become
an important market for MSC
Cruises, and in summer 2018 MSC
Meraviglia and MSC Magnifi ca are
based in Hamburg, MSC Preziosa
in Kiel and MSC Orchestra will
cruise from Warnemünde.HAWAII CRUISE CALL DISRUPTION
VOLCANO
The continuing volcanic activity
of Mount Kilauea on Big Island,
Hawaii has led to a number of
cancelled cruise calls and ship
deviations. NCL’s Hawaii-based
Pride of America cancelled callsat Hilo on 15 May and at Kailua
Kona on 16 May.
Pride of America, being US-
fl agged, is the only large cruise
ship which is permitted to sail
entirely within the Hawaiian
Islands; others must include
at least one foreign port call.Princess Cruises cancelled the
Hilo call by Sea Princess, which
should have taken place on 18
May, although the Kona call still
went ahead. Royal Caribbean’s
Radiance of the Seas had a sea
day in place of the Hilo call
during the previous week.LONG CRUISE
VIKING OCEAN
On 31 August 2019 Viking Sun
will sail from London on what
is thought to be the longest
continuous world cruise to date.
Her 245-day voyage will visit 113
ports in 59 countries, spanning
six continents. This voyage will be
Viking Ocean’s third world cruise,
but will be almost twice the length
of the earlier circumnavigations.
The company’s sixth ship,
Viking Jupiter, was fl oated out at
Fincantieri’s Ancona shipyard on
10 May. She will be delivered in- Meanwhile, the fi fth ship
in the series, Viking Orion, will
be completed and delivered
in summer 2018. Viking Ocean
Cruises has renewed sponsorship
for a second year of National
Geographic’s ‘Genius’ TV series.
Pride of America was one
of several ships diverted
from Hilo. RicK FReNDT Viking Sun will undertake a 245-
day world cruise