"Crown Princess" круиздік кемесінің тарихы мен саяхаттары

Cruise ship

Crown Princess is a Crown class cruise ship owned and operated by Princess Cruises, with a capacity of 3080 guests and a crew complement of 1200. Her maiden voyage took place on 14 June 2006, departing Red Hook, Brooklyn (New York) for Grand Turk (Turks and Caicos Islands), Ocho Rios (Jamaica), Grand Cayman (Cayman Islands), and Port Canaveral (Florida). As of 2019, Crown Princess sails in the Caribbean during the Winter season, and in Europe for the Summer season. Like her sister ships Emerald Princess and Ruby Princess, her Skywalkers Night Club is built aft of the funnel rather than suspended over the stern as a "wing," or "spoiler", as seen on Caribbean Princess. Her godmother is Martha Stewart.

In December 2012, Crown Princess made a transatlantic crossing from Venice to Galveston, Texas, where she stayed to run Caribbean itineraries from December 2012 to April 2013. When the ship arrived in Galveston on , at least 102 passengers had contracted norovirus. The Crown Princess had previously been plagued by two separate outbreaks of norovirus in January and February, 2012.

On , at approximately 3:30 p. m. ET, one hour after departing her last port of call in Port Canaveral, Crown Princess reported "listing" or making "heavy turns". The United States Coast Guard was contacted shortly after and crews arrived within minutes to assist the troubled vessel. The cruise ship was on its way back to New York City, and the decision was made to return to Port Canaveral due to what was initially thought to be a malfunction in the steering equipment, which caused a severe tilting of the ship, and injuries. However, the United States' National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) found that the second officer, the senior watch officer on the bridge, had disengaged the automatic steering mode of the vessel's integrated navigation system after it put the ship into what the officer felt was an unusually hard turn to port and took manual control of the steering. Fourteen passengers and crew members were seriously injured, one suffering breathing difficulties after being hit in the chest by an airborne chair, and another 284 had minor injuries. Starting in the 2016–2017 season she undertook a full season to South America. At the end of the season, she returned to Fort Lauderdale to sail Caribbean cruises. As of August 2019, Crown Princess is currently sailing the British Isles and will re position to Fort Lauderdale for the 2019–2020 winter season, sailing Southern Caribbean itineraries. In 2023, it was announced that Crown Princess will take a 113 day world cruise in the summer of 2025 from Sydney, Australia. As of 2024, the ship was scheduled for summer cruises to Alaska on the west coast of North America.

In April 2018, the ship underwent an extensive 10 day renovation in Freeport, Bahamas.

During the coronavirus pandemic, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported, as early as , that at least one person who tested positive for SARS CoV 2 had tested positive within 14 days after disembarking.