ISLAND PRINCESS cruise vessel 2003

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Built as a passenger cruise vessel under yard No D32 by Chantier de L’Atlantique, St. Nazaire, France for Carnival Corporation & plc.
1999 Ordered.
22 January 2002 laid down.
02July launched as the ISLAND PRINCESS.
Tonnage 92,822Gt, 54,052 NT, 8,015 DWT, dim.294.00 x 32.20 x 19.95m., length bpp. 266.18, draught 8.00m.
Powered CODLAG by two Wartsila 16V46C-CR-16-cyl. Combustion engine each 16,800 kW. General Electric LM2500 gas turbine Twin fixed pitch propellers, maximum speed 23.9 knots.
Passenger capacity 2,214 and crew 900.
18 June 2003 completed.
11 JULY 2003 christened by Jaime Sale and David Pelletier
(Olympic Gold Medalists) 11 July 2003 in Vancouver, BC, Canada.
12 July 2003 maiden voyage.

ISLAND PRINCESS is a Coral-class cruise ship for the Princess Cruises line. She is the sister ship to CORAL PRINCESS and together they are the only Panamax ships in Princess's fleet. She was constructed at Chantiers de l'Atlantique, France.


ISLAND PRINCESS's main itinerary consist of seven day Alaskan cruises from Vancouver, British Columbia to Whittier, Alaska during the summer months. During the fall, winter, and spring, ISLAND PRINCESS and her sister ship CORAL PRINCESS 10/14-15 day Panama Canal cruises with stops in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, San Juan del Sur, Puntarenas, Costa Rica, Cartagena, Colombia, and Oranjestad, Aruba.


The ship has had outbreaks of community-spread illnesses. Norovirus hit the ship in March 2006 (72 passengers, 16 crew), October 2006 (109 passengers, 11 crew), January 2007 (179 passengers, 37 crew), January 2018 (71 passengers, 7 crew), February 2019 (101 passengers, 9 crew), e. coli and Shigella in April 2009 (100 passengers, 8 crew), and unknown outbreaks in two May-June 2004 sailings (441 passengers, 68 crew).

2015 She underwent a refit by Fincantieri, Trieste, Italy.


In 2015 ISLAND PRINCESS sailed on cruises for the first time in Europe, traveling between Barcelona and Venice. In 2019/2020 cruise season, ISLAND PRINCESS will continue to operate the West Coast cruises.

As part of the COVID-19 pandemic on cruise ships, the ship repatriated crew members to Asia in April 2020. In May 2020, the summer cruise schedule for the ship was cancelled.


Celebrating the 55th anniversary of the cruise line sailing to the engineering marvel of the Panama Canal, ISLAND PRINCESS departed on a 14-day Ocean-to-Ocean Panama Canal voyage from Ft. Lauderdale to Los Angeles on April 27 2022, and will return on a subsequent voyage from Los Angeles to Ft. Lauderdale on May 11.

Princess first sailed to the Panama Canal in 1967 with PRINCESS ITALIA.
ISLAND PRINCESS will then depart Ft. Lauderdale for Europe, sailing various British Isles, Northern Europe (including Iceland and the Arctic Circle) and Mediterranean voyages.

In April 2022 after COVID she is again in service.

2024 In service same name and owned by Princess Cruise Line Ltd. Valencia, CA. USA IMO 9230402, Homeport Hamilton, Bermuda.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS_Island_Princess_(2002) and Internet.
LIBERIA 2022 165$ sg?, Scott?