Scenic Eclipse

Scenic Eclipse with Svitzer Tugs in Hook of Holland.

Scenic founder and Chairman decided to build the luxury yacht, after being inspired by Paul Allen's Octopus yacht.[3] In February 2018, the cruise line confirmed that a sister ship to the Scenic Eclipse was in production, with a prospective launch date of 2020.[4] The Scenic Eclipse construction started at 2017, the first ocean-going ship in the fleet, The construction has been delayed numerous times due to bankruptcy and others, and finally entered into service in August 2019.[5] The ship is a 17,085-gross-ton and can able to hold up to 228 passengers,[6] with a five decks of 345 to 2,659 square feet.[7]

Scenic Eclipse departed the shipyard on July 27, 2019 for Valletta, Malta, where the ship is registered,[8] It then headed Reykjavik, Iceland and disembarked on August 15, and ending in Quebec where the ships will be named by the actress Helen Mirren.[9] Scenic appointed that Helen Mirren to be the godmother of the discovery yacht, and christened in New York City on 10 September 2019.[10]

The ship was purposed made to provide cruises in the Americas, Europe, Arctic, Antarctica, and the Norwegian Fjords[11] It started with 2020-2022 program of ocean exploration on Antarctica and America land journeys.[12] The ship first sailed on Quebec city to Saint Lawrence River,[13] and went to Viktor Lenac Shipyard on Croatia in May 2019 as a part of scheduled dry dock, where it will be remained for 10 days with the standard works of the ship.[14] It completed its first sea trials on June 2019.[15] The ship's journey has been temporarily suspended on sailing until 30 April 2020,[16] but extended into 30 June, due to coronavirus pandemic concerns.[17]

On 28 March 2020, there are 245 passengers on Scenic Eclipse alongside with MS Roald Amundsen cruises where the ships flew on Sydney to South America and arrived at night, were forced to be screened due to COVID-19 fears at the airport and required to be isolated for 14 days.[18]