''Seabourn Sojourn'' is a luxury cruise ship operated by

Seabourn Cruise Line Seabourn Cruise Line is a cruise line headquartered in Seattle, Washington. It is owned by Carnival Corporation & plc. History Seabourn Cruise Line was founded in 1986 under the name "Signet Cruise Lines" by the Norwegian private investor and ...

. It is very similar to ''

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''. The ship was ordered for building in the shipyard of T. Mariotti S.p.A. in Genoa Italy. She is the flagship of Seabourn.

Design

The ''Seabourn Sojourn'' was ordered in November 2008. The ship has a length of 198 meters and a beam of 25.60 meters. The draft is 6.40 meters; the ship is divided into 11 passenger decks and has a capacity of 450. There are 225 staterooms. The gross tonnage of the ship is 32,346. The Sojourn as well as its two other sister ships the ''Seabourn Odyssey'' and the ''Seabourn Quest'' were designed by Bjorn Storbraaten of Yran & Storbraaten Architects AS, of Oslo, Norway. In December 2017, the ship underwent a six-day refit in

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Service

''Seabourn Sojourn'' was scheduled to be named on 4 June at London, then began her maiden voyage at Greenwich on 6 June 2010. The maiden season sailed in Northern Europe (Scandinavia/Baltic and Norway), before crossing the Atlantic and cruising the Caribbean and Panama Canal in the late autumn and winter. In January 2011, ''Seabourn Sojourn'' was to begin a 111-day round-the-world cruise from Los Angeles, to Southampton, England. On 4 November 2019, the ship departed on the company's first ever sailing to

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. In total, she took five cruises to this island country. The ship departed

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on a World Cruise on 4 January 2020. During a 146-day sailing, ''Seabourn Sojourn'' was due to visit 62 ports in 36 countries. Due to the

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this was cut short and the ship was due in

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on 18 April to refuel but no passengers or crew were allowed to disembark.4 residents allowed to disembark from cruise ship docked at Honolulu Harbor
Hawaii News Now 13 April 2020

References

External links

Official websiteshort video of Seabourn Sojourn
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