Clipper Odyssey

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Clipper Odyssey docked at Tallinn on 15 July 2012
Career
Name: Clipper Odyssey
Owner: International Shipping Partners[1]
Port of registry:  Bahamas
Identification: IMO number: 8800195
General characteristics
Length: 102.97 m (337.8 ft)[2]
Beam: 15.42 m (50.6 ft)
Draught: 4.13 m (13.5 ft)
Capacity: 128 passengers

Clipper Odyssey is a smaller, yacht-type ship good for wildlife cruising operating under Zegrahm Expeditions. On 10 September 2013, it was announced that the vessel was purchased by Silversea Cruises and will be renamed Silver Discoverer.[3]

Description

The ship was built in 1989 for the Japanese market as Oceanic Grace, before being bought by Indonesia's Spice Islands Cruises who renamed her Oceanic Odyssey. It was bought by St. Louis-based Clipper Cruise Line in 1999, who renamed her Clipper Odyssey.[4] She was then sold in 2007 to International Shipping Partners.[5] The ship is 340 feet long[6] and has space for 120 passengers.[4]

The ship is for destination-intensive cruising and does not have many amenities like larger ships. It has a jogging track and a small pool. The ship used to have a decompression chamber for divers, but it is no longer in use. All the cabins are outside and the ship has a small selection of balcony rooms and it has one suite. There is a beauty salon,a small fitness room and a swimming pool.

In 2013, it was charter by Silversea Cruises and is currently undergoing a major refurbishment prior to entering service on March 1, 2014 as the third ship of Silversea Expeditions fleet under the name of Silver Discoverer. She can accommodate up to 128 guests in five suite categories and has extensive facilities on board including 12 Zodiac boats and a glass-bottom boat for unique exploration of marine life; a swimming pool; a gym and beauty salon; a restaurant and pool grill; a lecture room for in-depth stories and briefings about the destinations and a panoramic lounge. She weighs 5,218 tons, is 338 feet long and 51 feet wide.

Silver Discoverer will be deployed in remote regions of the world including Micronesia, Melanesia, Polynesia, the Russian Far East, Southeast Asia, New Zealand and Australia, including one of its hidden treasures, the Kimberley. The Silversea Expeditions team will be on board, consisting of 11 experts, from expedition leaders, dive masters and marine biologists to historians, geologists and naturalists.

Incidents

In July 2002, the ship ran aground on St. Matthew Island in the Bering Sea but was not damaged.[7] In August 2004, the ship ran aground in the Aleutian Islands near Dutch Harbor and the passengers and crew had to be evacuated.[8] The ship was seriously damaged and 5000 gallons of fuel leaked from the vessel.[6] She returned to service two months later.[7]

External links

References

  1. ↑ "Clipper Odyssey". shipspotting.com. Retrieved 26 April 2012. 
  2. ↑ Fakta om fartyg (Swedish)
  3. ↑ http://www.seatrade-insider.com/news/news-headlines/global-launch-of-silverseas-third-expedition-ship-in-sydney.html
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Slater, Shirley; Basch, Harry (19 September 1999). "Former Lines and Old Ships Are Rising Again". Los Angeles Times. 
  5. ↑ Jerry Brown; Fran Wenograd Golden (10 January 2008). Frommer's Alaska Cruises & Ports of Call 2008. John Wiley & Sons. pp. 2–. ISBN 978-0-470-16907-0. Retrieved 11 February 2012. 
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=K_1PAAAAIBAJ&sjid=OwkEAAAAIBAJ&pg=3702,1647453&dq=clipper-odyssey&hl=en
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Ross A. Klein (1 October 2005). Cruise ship squeeze: the new pirates of the seven seas. New Society Publishers. p. 234. ISBN 978-0-86571-522-6. Retrieved 11 February 2012. 
  8. ↑ "Cruise ship runs aground in Alaska". CBC News. 2 August 2004. 
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