MS Bremen

MS Seaventure (then Bremen) in Ushuaia, Argentina
History
Bahamas
Name
  • Frontier Spirit (1990–1993)
  • Bremen (1993–2020)
  • Seaventure (2020–present)
Owner
Port of registryNassau,  Bahamas
BuilderMitsubishi Heavy Industries, Kobe, Japan
Yard number1182
Laid down26 January 1990
Launched20 June 1990
CompletedJuly 1990
Identification
StatusIn service
General characteristics
TypeCruise ship
Tonnage
Length
  • 111.51 m (365 ft 10 in) o/a
  • 98 m (321 ft 6 in) p/p
Beam17 m (55 ft 9 in)
Draught4.8 m (15 ft 9 in)
Depth6.61 m (21 ft 8 in)
Decks7
Installed power2 × Daihatsu 8 km-32 (2 × 2,427 kW)
Propulsion
Speed16 knots (30 km/h; 18 mph)
Capacity155 passengers

MS Seaventure is a cruise ship with a capacity of 155 passengers designed for the polar expedition market. She was built as Frontier Spirit at the Mitsubishi Shipyard, Kobe, Japan, in 1990 and operated by Hapag-Lloyd Cruises GmbH as MS Bremen beginning in 1993.

In January 2019 the ship was sold to Scylla AG with a planned handover date of May 2021. She was renamed Seaventure in 2020 and was chartered by expedition cruise company Polar Latitudes in the austral summer and by Iceland ProCruises in the boreal summer. In 2024, the ship was sold to Chinese company 66expeditions, and in May 2025 the new owner took over.

During a storm in the Southern Atlantic in March 2001, a rogue wave caused heavy damage, breaking a window on the bridge. It left the ship adrift for two hours without propulsion. Bremen was featured in the TV show Killer Waves.

Bremen discovered a previously uncharted island in the Antarctic in 2003, and it was named Bremen Island in 2004.

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

In July 2018, a crew member shot and killed a polar bear in the Svalbard archipelago. The company said that the incident could not have been avoided and was an act of self-defense. Another crew member, who was leading passengers on a shore excursion, was injured by the bear and was evacuated by helicopter.

References

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  3. ↑ "▷ Scylla AG kauft MS BREMEN | Presseportal". www.presseportal.de. Archived from the original on 16 January 2019.
  4. ↑ "DNV Vessel Register".
  5. ↑ "MS Seaventure Itinerary, Current Position, Ship Review". CruiseMapper. Retrieved 13 May 2025.
  6. ↑ "Scylla Reportedly Selling the Seaventure - Cruise Industry News | Cruise News".
  7. ↑ "BBC – Science & Nature – Horizon – Freak Wave". bbc.co.uk. 2012. Retrieved 28 August 2012.
  8. ↑ "Hapag-Lloyd Kreuzfahrten GMBH, Cruises, Cruise, Travel". www.hl-cruises.com. Archived from the original on 11 July 2011. Retrieved 13 January 2022.
  9. ↑ "Outrage after cruise guard shoots dead polar bear". sbs. 2018. Retrieved 28 August 2018.
  10. ↑ "MS Seaventure accidents and incidents". CruiseMapper. Retrieved 13 May 2025.

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