MS ''Deutschland'' (starting in 2015 also sailing as ''World Odyssey'' from September until April each year) is a
cruise ship
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launched in 1998 and owned and operated by
Peter Deilmann Cruises until 2015. She is decorated in the 1920s style as it could be seen in
SS ''Columbus'' of
Norddeutscher Lloyd
Norddeutscher Lloyd (NDL; North German Lloyd) was a German shipping company. It was founded by Hermann Henrich Meier and Eduard Crüsemann in Bremen on 20 February 1857. It developed into one of the most important German shipping companies of t ...
. The ship carries 513 passengers and 260 crew members. She has a gross tonnage of 22,400 and has seven passenger accessible decks.
History
![Deutschland Kiel 2015 June 09 a](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fc/Deutschland_Kiel_2015_June_09_a.jpg)
In 2000,
Air France Flight 4590 crashed near Paris, killing all 100 passengers and 9 crew members on board. The
New York City
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-bound
Concorde
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Studies started in 1954, and France an ...
charter flight had been carrying passengers for a sixteen-day cruise to
South America
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on board MS ''Deutschland''. Despite the accident, the cruise continued as planned.
During the
2012 Summer Olympics in London, the
German Olympic Committee used the MS ''Deutschland'' as a hospitality ship.
On 19 May 2015 the MS ''Deutschland'' was sold over to the Absolute Nevada company based in the United States, which purchased the ship for approximately $21 million. The new owners took on approximately half of the crew. Initially the ship was planned to serve as a floating university for the American organization
Semester at Sea
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and in the process was reflagged to Nassau in the Bahamas. It was proposed that the ship would be renamed ''World Odyssey'' following a refit at a northern European shipyard.
On 31 May 2015, Plantours announced that they would be chartering the ship for four sailings between 9 June 2015 and 29 July 2015 whilst its usual ship
MS ''Hamburg'' was repaired. The crew of MS ''Hamburg'' travelled to Gibraltar to prepare the ship, before guests embarked on 9 June 2015 in
Kiel
Kiel () is the capital and most populous city in the northern German state of Schleswig-Holstein, with a population of 246,243 (2021).
Kiel lies approximately north of Hamburg. Due to its geographic location in the southeast of the Jutland ...
. Places in the additional 80 cabins were made as a result of MS ''Deutschland'' being larger than planned
MS ''Hamburg'' ship. It was on this occasion that MS ''Deutschland'' began sailing under the Bahamas flag, and its funnel was painted into Plantours yellow branding.
From 20 June 2015 to 10 August 2015 the ship carried cruise tours to the
North Sea
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,
Norwegian Fjords
This list of Norwegian fjords shows many of the fjords in Norway. In total, there are about 1,190 fjords in Norway and the Svalbard islands. The sortable list includes the lengths and locations of those fjords.
Fjords
See also
* List of gla ...
,
Svalbard,
Greenland
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, the
Faroes
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They are located north-northwest of Scotland, and about halfway betw ...
and
Shetland Islands and to
Hamburg
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city before ending in
Kiel
Kiel () is the capital and most populous city in the northern German state of Schleswig-Holstein, with a population of 246,243 (2021).
Kiel lies approximately north of Hamburg. Due to its geographic location in the southeast of the Jutland ...
.
On 27 July 2015 the new owners of ship announced that the ship would alternate between two roles. For part of the year the ship would travel as ''World Odyssey'' transporting "Semester at Sea" students; and for the other part of the year it would be chartered to the German cruise company
Phoenix Reisen, sailing under its traditional MS ''Deutschland'' name. For this period the ship would carry two names, one for winter, other for summer.
During the
COVID-19 pandemic
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, the crew is locked down in the ship which is moored in a basin of the
port of Caen
The Port of Caen (French: ''Port de Caen)'' is the harbour and port authority of the Norman city of Caen, France.
The port of Caen is composed of a series of basins on the Canal de Caen à la Mer, linking Caen to Ouistreham, 15 km (9.3  ...
.
Incidents
At approximately 12:30 on 23 May 2010 whilst in the Norwegian port of
Eidfjord
Eidfjord is a municipality in Vestland county, Norway. The municipality is located in the traditional district of Hardanger. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Eidfjord, where the majority of the municipal popula ...
, Norway, a fire was detected in the engine room. On board were at that time 607 (or 608) people, including 364 passengers. All passengers and most of the crew and two Norwegian pilots were evacuated safely from the ship, while only a small part of the crew remained on board. The fire was isolated to a limited area of the ship. The ship's 364 passengers travelled home. MS ''Deutschland'' was then towed by
tug boats to the
Blohm + Voss shipyard in Hamburg for docking and repair, where the ship remained in the shipyard for thirty days. The fire damage had cost approximately two million euro and was paid by the ship's insurers. Three trips were cancelled and service resumed on July 3, 2010, with a departure from Hamburg.
On 15 January 2012, the ship grounded in the
Beagle Channel
Beagle Channel (; Yahgan: ''Onašaga'') is a strait in the Tierra del Fuego Archipelago, on the extreme southern tip of South America between Chile and Argentina. The channel separates the larger main island of Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego f ...
at the tip of South America. No one was injured and the ship was able to continue its journey after an investigation by the
Federal Bureau for Maritime Casualty Investigation
The Federal Bureau for Maritime Casualty Investigation (german: Bundesstelle für Seeunfalluntersuchung, BSU) is the German agency for investigating maritime accidents and incidents. It is subordinate to the Federal Ministry of Transport, Building ...
.
Popular Culture
* The German television show ' ("The Dream Ship") was filmed on board for fifteen years as the MS ''Deutschland'' traveled to tourist destinations around the world.
* In the first episode of ', the ship appears in the first scene docked as ''World Odyssey'' and is referenced in the final scene as a character watches ''Das Traumschiff''
References
External links
MS Deutschland(German)
MS Deutschland position
Pictures of the MS DeutschlandVideo of MS Deutschland transiting Cape Cod Canal
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Cruise ships
Cruise ships of Germany
1998 ships