MS Ocean Endeavour
cruise ship built in 1982
MS Ocean Endeavour is a cruise ship built in Poland in 1981.
History
The ship was built by Stocznia Szczecinska im A Warskiego in Szczecin, Poland in 1981 and operated as Konstantin Simonov in the Baltic Sea from construction, undergoing a refit in 1988. From 1996 to 2001, the ship operated as Francesca in the Mediterranean Sea. Until 2010, the ship was owned by Israeli Mano Cruise (after a refit in 2001) and operated in the eastern Mediterranean Sea under the name The Iris, during which time she was registered in Malta.
The ship was refitted again and joined Kristina Cruises as Kristina Katarina in late 2010, taking over as flagship from the much smaller Kristina Regina. On 8 January 2014, the ship was sold and renamed Ocean Endeavour with a capacity of 199 passengers.
In the latest deployment for this vessel, she has been assigned a role with NATO to house troops in Greenland as a floating barracks after geo political concerns in 2026.
Operation activities
The vessel has operated in the northern summer season on the east coast of Canada, Greenland and the Canadian Arctic by Adventure Canada, and in the southern summer season to Antarctica from Ushuaia by a joint venture between Intrepid Travel and Chimu Adventures. Adventure Canada is an independent, family-owned expedition cruise company from Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. Chimu Adventures and Intrepid Travel are Australian-owned Adventure travel companies.
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