Norwegian Escape

Key Particulars

Gross Tonnage: 165157

Net Tonnage: 134779

Displacement: -

Deadweight: 11700 load

Designer: Meyer Werft (overall); Guy Harvey (hull art)

Classification: DNV-GL + 1A1 BIS, BWM(T), LCS(DC)

Length: 325.90m / 1069.23ft oa; 300.20m / 984.91ft pp

Breadth: 46.50m / 152.56ft ext; 41.40m / 135.83ft mld

Draught: 8.62m / 28.28ft load; 8.33m / 27.33ft design

Air draught: 61.00m / 200.13ft load

Depth: 11.60m / 38.06ft mld

Decks: 19 (16 passenger)

Complement: 5999 (4266 pax dbl occ, 1733 crew); 5999 (4266 pax max occ, 1733 crew)

Cabins: 2174 (489 inboard, 1685 outboard)

Yard Data

Meyer Werft GmbH S.693

Timeline

12 October 2012

NCL Corporation Ltd., Breakaway Three Ltd., and a banking consortium led by KfW IPEX-Bank signed an agreement to finance the first of the enlarged Breakaway class ships.  The loan was valued at €590,478,870, and Norwegian Cruise Line would front the remainder of the ship's total construction cost.

17 October 2012

Contract signed between Meyer Werft GmbH and Breakaway Three Ltd. for the construction of Meyer Werft yard number S.693, at a cost of €698,400,000.  The loan secured five days prior covered around 84.5% of this value.

20 March 2014

Steel cutting ceremony for S.693.  She was a larger variant of the baseline Norwegian Breakaway platform, with an extra deck of balcony cabins, among other changes.

19 September 2014

The first block of S.693 is lowered onto the keel blocks in Hall 2 at Meyer Werft.

17 August 2015

Norwegian Escape is floated out of Hall 2 at Meyer Werft, stern first.

22 October 2015

Norwegian Cruise Line, through their subsidiary Breakaway Three Ltd., takes delivery of Norwegian Escape.  The ship was worth €698,400,000 at the time of her delivery, in keeping with the contract value.

23 October 2015

Norwegian Escape departs on her maiden voyage.

9 November 2015

Norwegian Escape is christened by Pitbull, a rapper from Florida.