World Discoverer (1984)

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She was wrecked and sank in the Solomon Islands in 2001.
All 99 passengers and crew aboard the US-owned World Discoverer were evacuated amid fears the ship was about to capsize. It had struck a coral reef in the Pacific Ocean.
The passengers were ferried from the 3,274-tonne World Discoverer to nearby Ngella island and later taken to the main Solomon island of Guadalcanal by charter vessel Michael Lomax, president of Society Expeditions, which runs the World Discoverer out of Seattle, said the ship struck an uncharted coral reef in Sandfly Passage, 20 miles north of the Honiara "The captain thought it was necessary to take the vessel and run it up on to the beach so as to safely evacuate the passengers and the crew members," Mr Lomax said.

Tristan SG562 Falkland Is SG689 Pitcairn Is SG397

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Built as a passenger ship under yard No 2250 by Schichau-Unterweser A.G., Bremerhaven for the Bewa Line A/S. Copenhagen.
08 December 1973 launched as the BEWA DISCOVERER.
Tonnage 3,153 grt, 1,617 net, 732 dwt., dim. 71.4 x 15 x 8.7m. (draught), length bpp. 65.0m.
Powered by two 8-cyl Atlas-MaK diesel engines, 4,800 hp, twin shafts, speed 16.5 knots.
Accommodation for 162 passengers.
1974 After her trial the BEWA DISCOVERER is laid up.

19 October 1975 delivered to Discovery Cruises A/S., Copenhagen and renamed in WORLD DISCOVERY.
1975 Chartered by de Vries & Co. Reisen GMHB, Hamburg.
1976 Registered under the flag of Singapore.
1977 Chartered by the Society Expeditions in America.
Then used for expedition cruises to Greenland, the Antarctic and Amazon River.
04 July 1977 she made her maiden voyage for the new charterer.
Ca. 1981 lengthened to 87.5m overall and bpp. 70.8m. Tonnage 3,724 grt.
1983 Transferred to Discoverer Reederei, Bremen, Germany.
1986 During a cruise through the North West Passage from the east to the west she is running in heavy pack-ice in the Peel Sound where after the cruise was terminated. Instead she steamed North till a position of 78 50N.
1990 Registered in Liberia, with homeport Monrovia.
21 January 1991 she grounded near the Ross Island in the Antarctic, refloated on her own power.
01 February 1991 she arrived in Lyttelton, New Zealand for docking. Damage was light on hull and bottom and she continued her cruise.
From April 1991 till April 1995 chartered by the Clipper Cruise Line.
30 April 2000 Grounded in the Solomon Islands in position 09 01S 160 07 E, and was lost.

Source: Marine News. http://www.miramarshipindex.org.nz http://www.faktaomfartyg.nu/world_discoverer_1975.htm

[Arturo]

World Discoverer (1984)

Pitcairn Islands 2001, S.G.?, Scott: 547d.

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Yemen 1983, 100 f. StG.306