Crown Princess (2005)

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Crown Princess
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Crown Princess near Edinburgh, 2019
History
Flag of Bermuda.svg Bermuda
NameCrown Princess
Owner Carnival Corporation house flag.svg Carnival Corporation & plc
Operator Princess Cruises
Port of registry Hamilton, Flag of Bermuda.svg  Bermuda
Builder Fincantieri
Laid down3 May 2004
Launched9 September 2005
Completed26 May 2006
Maiden voyage14 June 2006
Homeport Port Everglades, Florida & Southampton, United Kingdom
Identification IMO number:  9293399, Call sign ZCDM6
General characteristics
Class and type Crown-class cruise ship
Tonnage113,561  GT
Length952 ft (290 m)
Beamwaterline: 118 ft (36 m)
Height195 ft (59 m)
Draught27.32 ft (8.33 m)
Depth37.4 ft (11.4 m)
Decks18 [1]
Installed power Wärtsilä-Sulzer 16ZAV40S and 12ZAV40S Diesel engines
PropulsionTwo 6-blade fixed pitch propellers and 6 thrusters, 3 at bow and 3 at stern (19 MW each)
Speed21.5 knots (39.8 km/h; 24.7 mph), max.
Boats & landing
craft carried		24 boats
Capacity4800 max., according to shipyard
Crew1200

Crown Princess is a Crown-class cruise ship owned and operated by Princess Cruises, with a capacity of 3080 guests and a crew complement of 1200. Her maiden voyage took place on 14 June 2006, departing Red Hook, Brooklyn (New York) for Grand Turk (Turks and Caicos Islands), Ocho Rios (Jamaica), Grand Cayman (Cayman Islands), and Port Canaveral (Florida).

Contents

As of 2019, Crown Princess sails in the Caribbean during the Winter season, and in Europe for the Summer season. Like her sister ships Emerald Princess and Ruby Princess, her Skywalkers Night Club is built aft of the funnel rather than suspended over the stern as a "wing," or "spoiler", as seen on Caribbean Princess. Her godmother is Martha Stewart.

Galveston

In December 2012, Crown Princess made a transatlantic crossing from Venice to Galveston, Texas, where she stayed to run Caribbean itineraries from December 2012 to April 2013. When the ship arrived in Galveston on 22 December 2012, at least 102 passengers had contracted norovirus. [2] The Crown Princess had previously been plagued by two separate outbreaks of norovirus in January and February, 2012. [3]

Listing incident

On 18 July 2006, at approximately 3:30 p.m. ET, one hour after departing her last port of call in Port Canaveral, Crown Princess reported "listing" or making "heavy turns". [4] The United States Coast Guard was contacted shortly after and crews arrived within minutes to assist the troubled vessel. The cruise ship was on its way back to New York City, and the decision was made to return to Port Canaveral due to what was initially thought to be a malfunction in the steering equipment, which caused a severe tilting of the ship, and injuries.

However, the United States' National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) found that the second officer, the senior watch officer on the bridge, had disengaged the automatic steering mode of the vessel's integrated navigation system after it put the ship into what the officer felt was an unusually hard turn to port and took manual control of the steering. [4] The second officer turned the wheel first to port and then from port to starboard several times, eventually causing the vessel to list even more, to a maximum angle of about 24° to starboard. [4] The severe listing tumbled passengers, crew members, pool water, and everything else not secured about the decks. [5]

Fourteen passengers and crew members were seriously injured, one suffering breathing difficulties after being hit in the chest by an airborne chair, and another 284 had minor injuries. [4] Water from the four on-board pools poured into staircases and lift shafts. Most injuries were on the outdoor areas of Decks 15 and 16, where large beach chairs and tables hit and injured passengers. The other area that had many injured passengers was the balcony areas in the grand atrium. Many there were hit by falling objects and heavy marble tables.

The matter was referred to the NTSB and United States Coast Guard for investigation. After an internal review by Princess Cruises, its president Alan Buckelew publicly stated that "the incident was due to human error and the appropriate personnel changes have been made."

With approval from the Coast Guard and the Bermuda flag authorities, the vessel returned to service. A full refund was given to all passengers on the ill-fated cruise, and a 50% refund to passengers on the following cruise which was set to depart 20 July, but instead departed from Brooklyn on 22 July. Since then, Crown Princess has resumed her normal schedule.

Cruising history

Until November 2012, Crown Princess was sailing the Mediterranean Sea. In November 2012 the ship sailed to Galveston, Texas for the first time; where she sailed western Caribbean cruises. In April 2013 she sailed to Southampton and operated cruises to Northern Europe, the Mediterranean, and the Canary Islands. Subsequently, Crown Princess returned to the United States to Fort Lauderdale, sailing Caribbean cruises until February 2014.

On 18 January 2013, it was announced that Crown Princess would sail around South America. The Caribbean cruises from 15 February 2014 through 26 April 2014 were cancelled to allow for the South America cruise. After the South America cruise, she sailed to Mexico, Hawaii, and Pacific coastal cruises from Los Angeles, as well as Northbound and Southbound cruises from Vancouver and Whittier or round-trip Alaskan cruises from Seattle. [6]

Starting in the 2016–2017 season she undertook a full season to South America. [7] At the end of the season, she returned to Fort Lauderdale to sail Caribbean cruises.

As of August 2019, Crown Princess is currently sailing the British Isles and will re-position to Fort Lauderdale for the 2019–2020 winter season, sailing Southern Caribbean itineraries.

In 2023, it was announced that Crown Princess will take a 113 day world cruise in the summer of 2025 from Sydney, Australia.

As of 2024, the ship was scheduled for summer cruises to Alaska on the west coast of North America.

Refurbishment

In April 2018, the ship underwent an extensive 10-day renovation in Freeport, Bahamas. [8]

Incidents

Coronavirus pandemic

During the coronavirus pandemic, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported, as early as 22 April 2020, that at least one person who tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 had tested positive within 14 days after disembarking. [9]

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References

  1. ↑ Deck plans, Crown Princess. Decks are numbered 1-12 and 14-19, omitting number 13.
  2. ↑ "102 people contract norovirus during Transatlantic cruise". 21 December 2012.
  3. ↑ "2nd Norovirus Outbreak Forces Crown Princess Back to Lauderdale". 9 February 2012.
  4. 1 2 3 4 NTSB: Heeling Accident on M/V Crown Princess
  5. ↑ I-Team: Cruise Ship's List Caused By Human Error Archived 31 August 2006 at the Wayback Machine
  6. ↑ "Cruise Search". Archived from the original on 31 January 2013. Retrieved 21 July 2012.
  7. ↑ "Princess Cruises Debuts 2016–2017 Exotics Sailings". Princess Cruises. Retrieved 15 July 2015.
  8. ↑ "Crown Princess Cruise Ship Returns to Sailing After Dry Dock - Princess Cruises". www.cruisecritic.com. Retrieved 6 July 2018.
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