Viking Polaris was delivered from Vard’s Søviknes shipyard in Norway.
Torstein Hagen’s Viking Cruises in the present day took supply of its second expedition ship, Viking Polaris, in a ceremony at Fincantieri subsidiary Vard’s Søviknes, Norway, shipyard, the place Viking’s first expedition ship, the Viking Octantis, was delivered in December 2021.
Both vessels measure 205 meters in general size with a molded beam of 23.5 meters and had been outfitted on the Søviknes shipyard, with the hulls being constructed at Vard Tulcea in Romania, and .
Following the supply ceremony, the Viking Polaris instantly set sail towards Amsterdam, the place she can be named on September 30 by her ceremonial godmother, polar explorer Ann Bancroft. Currently crusing within the Great Lakes, the Viking Octantis may even be named on September 30 by her ceremonial godmother, Norwegian explorer, lecturer, creator and educator Liv Arnesen.
From Amsterdam, the Viking Polaris will make her method to South America, and each ships will spend the southern hemisphere summer season in Antarctica, earlier than touring north to the Great Lakes for a collection of voyages throughout spring and summer season.
With a imaginative and prescient that journey may very well be extra vacation spot targeted,Torstein Hagen based Viking in 1997 beginning with European river cruises and coming into the ocean cruise phase in 2015. Viking’s most up-to-date river cruise enlargement has been into the Mississippi River market, with the corporate beginning operations with the Viking Mississippi earlier this 12 months.
The expedition ships are for vacationers looking for one thing maybe extra adventurous, however no much less luxurious by way of lodging, eating choices and the like.
POLAR CLASS 6
The new Polar Class Viking Octantis and Viking Polaris host 378 friends in 189 staterooms. With ice-strengthened Polar Class 6 hulls the vessels are purpose-built for expeditions, and have each fin stabilizers and U-tank stabilizers that considerably lower rolling when the ship is stationary.
Characteristics of the vessels are a straight bow, longer hull and state-of-the-art fin stabilizers that enables the ship to glide over the waves for the calmest doable journey. The ice-strengthened Polar Class 6 hull will present the most secure method to discover in polar areas, and the u-tank stabilizers will considerably lower rolling when the ship is stationary.
As is likely to be anticipated they characteristic an intensive array of facilities tailor-made to the wants of the expedition cruise market, together with a state-of-the-art, industry-first in-ship marina offering ease of embarkation and disembarkation from Special Operations Boats and different gear whereas sheltered from the weather.
Much extra on all that the ships have to supply friends here.
The Viking expedition ships have an energy-efficient design that exceeds the Energy Efficiency Design Index (EEDI) necessities by practically 38%. In addition to an built-in bow that creates an extended waterline for the ships, engines with warmth restoration methods and Azipod electrical propulsion, the Viking Octantis and the Viking Polaris have obtained one of many {industry}’s first SILENT-E notations.
