Navigator of the Seas
Navigator of the Seas was built at Kvaerner-Masa in Turku, Finland. Her yardnumber was 1347. Her passengercapacity is 3807 and a crew of 1181 take care of them. Her tonnage is 138.279 and the ship is 311,12 meters long and 38,60 mneters wide. She has 14 decks.
Navigator Of The Seas was the fourth ship of a class of five built for Royal Caribbean International. The name of the class was Eagle-class and these ships would be the biggest cruiseships in the world. The Voyager Of The Seas, the first ship of this Eagle-class, floated out on the 27th of november 1998. Her tonnage of 137.276 surpassed the Grand Princess with almost 30.000 tons. With four more sisters following, this was an amazingly big order within the cruise-industry. The most innovative feature on these ships is a true four deck high shopping street with shops and bars. A great number of inside cabins are facing to this street and this creates a unique experience.
The second of the class to follow was the Explorer Of The Seas, with 137.308 tons slightly bigger then her earlier sister and thus she gained the title of the biggest one ever built. She was floated out on the 4th of november 1999. The Adventure Of The Seas (2001) had the same tonnage as the Voyager and she was followed by the Navigator Of The Seas.
This ship floated out on the 25th of january 2002 and with a tonnage of 138.279 she became the biggest passengership in the world. She was delivered on the 18th of november 2002 and named on the 6th of december in Miami. Her first cruise in the Caribbean started on the 14th of december. When Queen Mary 2 was floated out in march 2003 and delivered to Cunard at the end of that year, the Navigator Of The Seas lost her title of the worlds biggest, and the fifth ship of the Voyager-class, the Mariner Of The Seas, never had a chance to become the biggest when she sailed. From 2005 on, the Voyager Of The Seas was deployed in the Mediterranean Sea and the Navigator of the Seas was als send to Europe in 2007. She will be replaced by the even larger Independence Of The Seas in 2008.
