MS Bremen

MS Bremen in Funchal, Madeira, Portugal
History
Bahamas
Name:
  • Frontier Spirit (1990-1993)
  • Bremen (1993-present)
Owner:
  • Frontier Cruises (1990-1993)
  • Hapag-Lloyd Cruises (1990-present)
Port of registry: Nassau,  Bahamas
Builder: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Kobe, Japan
Yard number: 1182
Laid down: 26 January 1990
Launched: 20 June 1990
Completed: July 1990
Identification:
Status: In service
General characteristics [2]
Type: Cruise ship
Tonnage:
Length:
  • 111.51 m (365 ft 10 in) o/a
  • 98 m (321 ft 6 in) p/p
Beam: 17 m (55 ft 9 in)
Draught: 4.8 m (15 ft 9 in)
Depth: 6.61 m (21 ft 8 in)
Decks: 7
Installed power: 2 × Daihatsu 8 km-32 (2 × 2,427 kW)
Propulsion:
Speed: 16 knots (30 km/h; 18 mph)
Capacity: 155 passengers

MS Bremen, is a cruise ship operated by Hapag Lloyd since 1993. She was built as Frontier Spirit at the Mitsubishi Shipyard, Kobe, Japan, in 1990. During a storm in the Southern Atlantic in March 2001, a rogue wave caused heavy damage, even breaking a window on the bridge. It left the ship adrift for two hours without propulsion.[3] A previously uncharted island in the Antarctic was discovered by Bremen in 2003, and was named Bremen Island in 2004. Bremen was also featured in the TV show Killer Waves.

In 2006 she successfully ran the Northwest Passage , helped by satellite images telling where sea ice was.

In July 2018, a crew member killed a polar bear, which was defending its territory, in the Svalbard archipelago, cowardly with a bullet in his head, after one of the four guards of the vessel that disembarked, to have been surprised with the animal when it inspected the place. The company claimed that the incident could not have been avoided and was a human self-defense action, but many in society, protecting the rights of animals, repudiated the bear's death, justifiably stating that it was an irresponsible act to allow crew members to land on a territory that is the habitat of primarily vulnerable species, and may have appreciated nature only from far away from the ship, since many bears are already confined to small zoo places for appreciation.[4]

References

  1. ↑ "BREMEN - Details and Current Position". marinetraffic.com. 2012. Retrieved 28 August 2012.
  2. ↑ "Bremen". scheepvaartwest.be. 2012. Archived from the original on 21 January 2013. Retrieved 28 August 2012.
  3. ↑ "BBC - Science & Nature - Horizon - Freak Wave". bbc.co.uk. 2012. Retrieved 28 August 2012.
  4. ↑ "Outrage after cruise guard shoots dead polar bear". sbs. 2018. Retrieved 28 August 2018.


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