Fred's foster-parent: | Name: | Sabine | Profession: | | Nationality: | Germany | Fred's vessel: | Vesselname: | Independence of The Seas | Callsign: | C6WW4 | Flag: | Bahamas | IMO No.: | 9349681 | Vesseltype: | Cruise ship | Length: | 338,94 | Beam: | 56,08 |
| Fred-Report:
Hello to all my friends or as we say in Northern Germany: Moin Moin
Do you know where I spent the last weeks? I will tell you: I was on holiday!
Fred on holiday? You can't belive it? Ok, you are right. It was more a mixture of working and relaxing and of course I spent my holiday on a ship!
After I spent some days with Miriam at "Barkassen Meyer" in Hamburg, I joined her parents Sabine and Wulfdieter on a cruise ship. It's my first time as a real passenger and I really enjoyed it.
On November, 1st we took the plane from Hamburg to London and after a boring ride on a bus we arrived the Independence of the Seas. Wow, what a huge ship.
As you might can imagine I immediately found a lot of new friends and we did a lot of cool stuff together. I will tell you some of the stories within the next days.
This was our voyage:
01.11 Leaving Southampton and then 8 days at sea
10.11. Philippsburg / St. Martin / Kleine Antillen
11.11. Charlotte Amalie / St. Thomas / U.S. Virgin Islands
12.11. San Juan / Puerto Rico
13.11. at sea
14.11. Cococay / Bahamas
15.11. Arrival in Port Everglades / Fort Lauderdale
After exploring the ship we started the emergency-training.
Some technical details of the ship:
Flag: Bahamas
Type: Cruise ship
Callsign: C6WW4
Port of registry: Nassau
IMO-No. 9349681
Owner Independence of The Seas Inc.
Manager Royal Caribbean International
Builder: Aker Yards Oy, Turku, Finnland
Building costs: about. 828 Mio US$
Start of service: Mai 2008
Length: 338,94 m
Width: 56,08 m
max draught: 8,53 m
TDW 160.000 t
Crew: 1365
Engine:
Engine: 6 Wärtsilä Vasa 12V46C Diesel engines
Engine power 75.600 kW (102.787 PS)
max speed. 21,6 kn (40 km/h)
propeller: 3 x 14 MW Azipod-
Capacity: 4370 passengers
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