Le Commandant Charcot
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| Name: | Le Commandant Charcot |
| Namesake: | Jean-Baptiste Charcot |
| Owner: | Compagnie du Ponant |
| Port of registry: |  Mata Utu |
| Builder: | |
| Cost: | Template:ShipCost |
| Laid down: | December 2018[2] |
| Launched: | March 2020[3] |
| Completed: | July 2021[4] |
| Identification: | IMO number: 9846249 |
| Status: | In service |
| General characteristics [5] | |
| Type: | Cruise ship |
| Tonnage: | 31,283 GT |
| Length: | 150 m (492 ft) |
| Beam: | 28 m (92 ft) |
| Draught: | 10 m (33 ft) |
| Ice class: | Polar Class 2 |
| Installed power: | |
| Propulsion: | Diesel-electric; two ABB Azipod propulsion units (2 × 17 MW)[9] |
| Speed: | 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph) (open water) |
| Capacity: | 270 passengers in 135 cabins[1] |
| Crew: | 187 |
Le Commandant Charcot is an icebreaking cruise ship operated by the French shipping company Compagnie du Ponant. Named after the French polar scientist Jean-Baptiste Charcot, the vessel was built at Vard Tulcea shipyard in Romania, from where she was moved to Søviknes for final outfitting and delivery in 2021.[5]
Description
Le Commandant Charcot is a Polar Class 2 rated icebreaking vessel capable of reaching remote polar destinations such as the Geographic North Pole. She features a hybrid power plant powered by liquefied natural gas (LNG) and 5 MWh electric batteries, capable of briefly driving the ship without engines running.[1][8]
Design and construction
The ship was launched in March 2020[3] and left the yard in Romania on 29 March, heading for Norway. She arrived at VARD shipyard in Søvik, Haram, Norway on 28 April 2020.[10] In June 2021, she was in the Arctic for the first time during sea trials.[11]
Career
After delivery on 29 July 2021,[12] Le Commandant Charcot sailed from mainland Norway to Svalbard and from there to the Geographic North Pole, where she arrived on 6 September 2021.[13]
In December 2021, the ship went on a 16-day exploration cruise from Ushuaia, Argentina to the Weddell Sea and Antarctic Peninsula, allowing passengers to experience a total solar eclipse from the Weddell Sea ice pack.[14][15]
In February 2022, Le Commandant Charcot collaborated with the British Antarctic Survey research vessel RRS Sir David Attenborough in Antarctica. The cruise ship, capable of breaking much thicker ice, created a channel for the research vessel in second-year ice covered with thick layer of snow in Stange Sound.[16]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 VARD secures contract for the design and construction of the first electric hybrid cruise icebreaker with LNG propulsion for PONANT. VARD, 18 December 2017. Retrieved 10 February 2019.
- ↑ Keel Laid for Le Commandant Charcot. Cruise Industry News, 27 December 2018. Retrieved 10 February 2019.
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- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Le Commandant Charcot. Le Commandant Charcot. Retrieved 10 February 2019.
- ↑ Wärtsilä to power Ponant's world-first hybrid electric icebreaker. Seatrade Cruise News, 21 October 2018. Retrieved 10 February 2019.
- ↑ Wärtsilä 31DF. Wärtsilä. Retrieved 10 February 2019.
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- ↑ World's first hybrid icebreaker for cruising powered by ABB. electrive.com, 10 March 2018. Retrieved 10 February 2019.
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