''Disney Adventure'' is an upcoming seventh

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owned and operated by

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, a subsidiary of

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, due to enter service in 2025. ''Disney Adventure'' is the first and only ship of the , with her then-planned sister ship scrapped due to

Genting Hong Kong Genting Hong Kong Limited ( zh, 雲頂香港有限公司) was a holding company that operated cruise and resort businesses. It was headquartered in (海洋中心), Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong and listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (). It was p ...

Star Cruises Star Cruises was a cruise line headquartered in Hong Kong and operating in the Asia-Pacific market. The company was owned by Genting Hong Kong. It was the eighteenth largest cruise line in the world after Carnival Corporation, Royal Caribb ...

Dream Cruises Genting Hong Kong Limited ( zh, 雲頂香港有限公司) was a holding company that operated cruise and resort businesses. It was headquartered in (海洋中心), Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong and listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (). It was p ...

, and

MV Werften MV Werften is a Hong Kong–Germany, German shipbuilding company that operates three facilities in eastern Germany to construct cruise ships for parent company Genting Hong Kong. In January 2022, MV Werften filed for bankruptcy, and an admini ...

all filing for bankruptcy from January to June 2022. She will enter service in 2025. The other seven ships in the Disney fleet are , , , , , , (first sailing on December 2024) and (first sailing in Spring 2026)

History

ordered two ships of the

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in May 2016 from its subsidiary Lloyd Werft Group for service in the

fleet, with delivery of the first vessel planned for 2019. In July 2016, Genting Hong Kong reorganized Lloyd Werft Group, resulting in the formation of

as a builder of large cruise ships; accordingly, the ''Global'' class order was transferred to

. At the time they were ordered, the design of the ships had not been completed, and as a result construction did not begin until March 2018, when ceremonial steel cuttings for the first ship in the class were held at shipyards in

Wismar Wismar (; Low German: ''Wismer''), officially the Hanseatic City of Wismar (''Hansestadt Wismar'') is, with around 43,000 inhabitants, the sixth-largest city of the northeastern German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, and the fourth-largest city ...

and

Rostock Rostock (), officially the Hanseatic and University City of Rostock (german: link=no, Hanse- und Universitätsstadt Rostock), is the largest city in the German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and lies in the Mecklenburgian part of the state, c ...

. Major components of the ships were constructed at both shipyards, with assembly taking place in Wismar. Construction was scheduled to take just under three years, with the first ship to be delivered in late 2020 and the second in late 2021. In March 2018, Genting Hong Kong announced that the two planned ''Global''-class ships would be operated by Dream Cruises upon delivery, sailing from Chinese ports during the summer season and further afield in Southeast Asia, Oceania and the west coast of the United States during the remainder of the year. The construction of the first ship, ''Global Dream'', started on 8 March 2018 at the facilities in Wismar and Rostock. The

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was laid on 11 September 2018 in Rostock. A big part of the ship left the drydock in Rostock on 22 November 2019 and was towed to Wismar, were she entered the drydock on 23 November 2019. Due to the temporary closure of the shipyard in 2020 as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the delivery of both ''Global''-class ships was expected to be delayed. On November 16, 2022,

purchased ''Global Dream'' for €40 million, a discount from the original value of €1.8 billion. The ship has a capacity of 6,000 and is powered by

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. Disney plans to work with the shipbuilding company

Meyer Werft Meyer Werft is one of the major German shipyards, headquartered in Papenburg at the river Ems. Founded in 1795 and starting with small wooden vessels, today Meyer Werft is a builder of luxury passenger ships. 700 ships of different types have be ...

to complete the unfinished ship by the time she enters service and embarks on her maiden voyage in 2025. She will be the first Disney Cruise Ship to be based outside of the United States market, set to be homeported in

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. On September 8, 2023, the ship was officially announced as the ''Disney Adventure'' at the Destination D23 Expo. The interior design was done by Estonia-based group LTH-Baas. The construction will be completed in May 2025.

Design

The ship was originally planned to measure , but was increased to 208,000 GT in the final design. The ship is in length, with a

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of and a

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of . The ship is powered by six

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48/60CR

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s, which make a total of and power three ABB

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XO thrusters via ABB electrical generators. ABB also supplied major control components and software. The ship was planned to use

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and robots for many customer-facing services, with extensive use of voice and face recognition. The pre-Disney design provided for 2,350 passenger cabins allowing for 9,000 passengers, 4,700 of those in lower berths. Her crew was to be 2,200. Disney's announcement of the acquisition stated her expected passenger capacity to be around 6,000 passengers, with a crew of approximately 2,300.

References

External links

Disney Cruise Line
{{Ships built at Meyer Werft

Adventure An adventure is an exciting experience or undertaking that is typically bold, sometimes risky. Adventures may be activities with danger such as traveling, exploring, skydiving, mountain climbing, scuba diving, river rafting, or other extreme spo ...

Ships built in Papenburg