MS ''Seaventure'', formerly ''Bremen'', is a

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operated by Hapag-Lloyd Cruises GmbH since 1993. She was built as ''Frontier Spirit'' at the Mitsubishi Shipyard,

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, in 1990. During a storm in the Southern

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in March 2001, a

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caused heavy damage, even breaking a window on the

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. It left the ship adrift for two hours without propulsion. A previously uncharted island in the

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was discovered by ''Bremen'' in 2003, and was named

Bremen Island Bremen Island (german: Bremeninsel) is a or uninhabited island, part of the Melchior Islands in the Southern Ocean along the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula. A long channel ('' Bremenkanal'') separates Omega Island and Bremen Island. T ...

in 2004. ''Bremen'' was also featured in the TV show ''

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''. In 2006 she successfully ran the

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, helped by

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s telling where sea ice was. In July 2018, a crew member shot and killed a

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in the

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archipelago. The company claimed that the incident could not have been avoided and was an act of self-defense. In January 2019 the ship was sold to Scylla AG with a planned handover date of May 2021. In July 2020, Hapag Lloyd Cruises announced that ''Bremen'' had been chartered to Havila Kystruten. She was renamed ''Seaventure'' in 2020.

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