MS Roald Amundsen

For other ships with the same name, see Roald Amundsen (ship).
History
NameRoald Amundsen
NamesakeRoald Amundsen
OperatorHurtigruten
BuilderKleven Verft, Ulsteinvik, Norway[1]
Launched17 February 2018
CompletedJuly 2018[1]
IdentificationIMO number: 9813072
StatusActive
General characteristics
TypeCruise ship
Length140 m (459 ft 4 in)[2]
Beam23.6 m (77 ft 5 in)[2]
Height29 m (95 ft 2 in)[2]
Draught5.3 m (17 ft 5 in)[3]
Decks11[4]
Ice classPolar Class 6
Capacity530–1,018[3][4]
Picture of the vessel MS Roald Amundsen
Roald Amundsen in the Antarctic

MS Roald Amundsen is a hybrid powered expedition cruise ship operated by Norwegian company Hurtigruten AS.[4] She was built by Kleven Yards of Norway and started her maiden voyage on 3 July 2019 from the Norwegian port Tromsø to Hamburg.[1] She and her sister ship Fridtjof Nansen are the first hybrid-powered ships in the Hurtigruten fleet.[2][5][6]

Roald Amundsen was christened in fall 2019 in Antarctica with a chunk of ice instead of the traditional bottle of champagne.[7] The vessel has Polar Class 6 rating for arctic conditions. Roald Amundsen was the first hybrid ship to sail the Northwest Passage.[8][9]

  1. ^ a b c "MS Roald Amundsen Review and Specifications". CruiseMapper. Retrieved 13 November 2016.
  2. ^ a b c d Storholm, Linda (19 October 2016). "Two New Expedition Ships to be Named after Polar Heroes". High North News. Retrieved 13 November 2016.
  3. ^ a b Bergsli, Gaute (19 October 2016). "Hurtigruten har bestemt seg for navn på sine nye skip" (in Norwegian). Vol.no. Retrieved 13 November 2016.
  4. ^ a b c "MS Roald Amundsen". Hurtigruten. Retrieved 13 November 2016.
  5. ^ Hilpert, Alexandra (9 July 2019). "Das erste Hybrid-Kreuzfahrtschiff der Welt geht in Betrieb — und soll von Hamburg bis in die Antarktis fahren" [The world's first hybrid cruise ship goes into operation - and is to sail from Hamburg to Antarctica]. Business Insider (in German). Retrieved 4 August 2020.
  6. ^ "Hybridschiff mit 530 Passagieren legt in Hamburg an" [Hybrid ship with 530 passengers docks in Hamburg]. Hamburger Abendblatt (in German). 10 July 2019. Retrieved 4 August 2020.
  7. ^ "New Roald Amundsen Set for Historic Antarctica Christening". www.cruiseindustrynews.com. 2019-07-11. Retrieved 2019-07-12.
  8. ^ "Hurtigruten Going Big in Arctic in 2019". CIN. 2017-12-06. Retrieved 2018-02-19.
  9. ^ Cite error: The named reference northwest.passage was invoked but never defined (see the help page).