Spirit of Glacier Bay
ship built in 1984
Spirit of Glacier Bay, formerly Spirit of Nantucket and Nantucket Clipper, and now called the Chichagof Dream is a small cruise ship that was owned and operated by Cruise West until 2010. She is 207 feet long, carries up to 102 passengers and approximately 28 crew. It was built in 1984 at Jeffersonville, Indiana for Clipper Cruise Lines by Jeffboat Corporation, and operated on the East Coast of North America, from the Caribbean Sea to the Canadian Maritimes and into the Great Lakes as far as Chicago. In 2006, Nantucket Clipper, along with fleet-mate Yorktown Clipper, was purchased by Seattle-based Cruise West. Nantucket Clipper was renamed Spirit of Nantucket at this time. In 2006 and 2007 she continued operating on her usual routes.
Accidents
Spirit of Nantucket ran aground on 8 November 2007 while cruising the Intracoastal Waterway near Virginia Beach, Virginia. The vessel struck a submerged, uncharted object and the captain ordered for the ship to be driven into the shallows to avoid settling on the bottom in deeper water. Sixty-six people were on the ship at the time; there were no reported injuries related to the incident. Coast Guard officials said the cruise ship's captain acted properly by running the ship aground to prevent it from sinking in deeper water.
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