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MV Artania (2012)
History
Name	Royal Princess (1984–2005) Artemis (2005–2011) Artania (2011–present)
Owner	P&O Princess Cruises (1984–2003) Carnival Corporation & plc (2003–2011) MS Artania Shipping (2011–present)
Operator	Princess Cruises (1984–2005) P&O Cruises (2005–2011) Phoenix Reisen (2011–present)
Port of registry	London, U.K. (1984-2005) Hamilton, Bermuda (2005-2016) Nassau, Bahamas (2016-present)
Builder	Wärtsilä Helsinki Shipyard, Finland
Cost	$165 million (1984)
Yard number	464
Launched	18 February 1984
Christened	15 November 1984 by Princess Diana
Acquired	30 October 1984
Maiden voyage	19 November 1984
In service	19 November 1984
Identification	Callsign C6CY5 IMO number: 8201480 MMSI number: 311000608
Status	In service
General characteristics
Type	Cruise ship
Tonnage	44,348 GT 5,580 DWT
Length	230.61 m (756 ft 7 in)
Beam	29.60 m (97 ft 1 in) or 32.2 m (105 ft 8 in)
Draught	7.80 m (25 ft 7 in)
Decks	8 (passenger accessible)
Installed power	4 × Wärtsilä 12V32 combined 27840 kW
Speed	22 knots (41 km/h; 25 mph)
Capacity	1188 (normal) 1260 (maximum)
Crew	537

MV Artania (previously Royal Princess and Artemis) is a cruise ship chartered since 2011 by Phoenix Reisen, a German-based travel agency and cruise ship operator. She was built for Princess Cruises by Wärtsilä at the Helsinki Shipyard, Finland, and was launched on 18 February 1984.

At a ceremony in Southampton, England, on 15 November 1984, the ship was named Royal Princess by Diana, Princess of Wales. After entering service on 19 November 1984, she cruised as Royal Princess until April 2005, when she was transferred to the control of P&O Cruises, and was renamed Artemis. In 2011, she moved to Phoenix Reisen's fleet and was renamed Artania.

In 2020, a COVID-19 outbreak on the ship led to two passenger deaths as of 7 April.

History

Royal Princess

Royal Princess was named by Diana, Princess of Wales at a ceremony in Southampton, Hampshire on 15 November 1984. The ceremony was attended by members of the public, employees of the P&O Princess Group and local and international dignitaries including Mauno Koivisto, President of Finland. The Bishop of Southampton performed a blessing prior to the naming.

The ship was the most expensive passenger ship when built. She does not have any inside cabins, which makes her the first cruise ship to have all outside cabins.

Artemis

She was transferred to the P&O fleet in April 2005 and renamed Artemis by Prunella Scales. Artemis was the smallest and oldest ship in the P&O cruises fleet. P&O and Princess Cruises are under the same parent company P&O Princess since 2000 and were acquired by Carnival Corporation & plc in 2003.

In 2010 British captain Sarah Breton took charge of Artemis, becoming only the second female in the world to command a major cruise ship and the first for P&O, after Karin Stahre-Janson from Sweden, who took charge of Monarch of the Seas of Royal Caribbean Cruises in 2007.

On 22 September 2009, after numerous rumours, it was announced by P&O Cruises that the ship has been sold to a company "MS Artania Shipping" for an undisclosed sum of money. She continued to sail for P&O Cruises until 22 April 2011, when she was chartered to Phoenix Reisen as MV Artania.

Artania

As of November 2019, the vessel has undergone four overhauls at Lloyd Werft Bremerhaven. The ship has been fitted with new Wärtsilä engines, and 96 additional balconies have been added.

Artania sailed under the flag of Bermuda until October 2016, her port of registry having been Hamilton. From 26 October 2016 Artania, as all other ships of Phoenix Reisen, has sailed under the flag of the Bahamas.

Artania sailed the South Pacific, New Zealand and Oceania for the first part of 2017, docking at Wellington Harbour on 27 February. On 26 October 2017, Artania docked in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, sailing north from New York as part of the autumn New England cruising schedule, departing 27 October to St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, which was its last North American port of call before making a transatlantic crossing to Europe. Cork in Ireland will be her first port of call on her way to Hamburg, Germany to commence the remaining 2017 cruise season with ports of call in Europe, Africa and the Indian Ocean.

COVID-19 pandemic

As of 26 March 2020, Artania was anchored off the coast of Western Australia. Health authorities report seven confirmed coronavirus cases on board. Due to measures taken by the Government of Western Australia to contain the outbreak, and as there are no Australian passengers or crew on board, Artania was required to anchor offshore as Commonwealth forces are organised to refuel and resupply the ship before it departs. The vessel is registered in the Bahamas, and therefore is considered as a 'foreign' vessel.

Artania docked at Fremantle, a suburb of Perth metropolitan area, on 27 March, and on 28 March 46 people were reported as displaying COVID-19 symptoms. Most of the 850 passengers flew home from Perth Airport to Germany on 28–29 March. 41 passengers and crew tested positive to COVID-19 and are being treated in Perth private hospitals such as in Joondalup Health Campus. On 1 April, the ship had 450 crew and about a dozen passengers on board. The Australian Government had directed it to leave port, but the ship was demanding the stay another 14 days, presumably so that they could be treated if COVID-19 symptoms developed. According to the Australian Attorney-General, Christian Porter, "there are still 12 passengers on board some of whom are very unwell. And their level of either illness or frailty is such that they cannot get in a plane."

An update on 3 April 2020 by CNN stated that the cruise line indicated that "16 passengers, plus hundreds of crew members, decided to stay on board the Artania, and travel back home that way". As of 7 April, two Artania passengers died from COVID-19.

References

Notes

1. Frank O Braynard & William H. Miller, Fifty Famous Liners 3, (W W Norton & Co Inc 1985), 219
2. ^ Micke Asklander. "M/S Royal Princess (1984)". Fakta om Fartyg (in Swedish). Archived from the original on 14 October 2012. Retrieved 17 December 2007.
3. ^ "About Artemis: Ship statistics". P&O Cruises official website. Archived from the original on 5 May 2008. Retrieved 17 December 2007.
4. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-04-07/wa-coronavirus-deaths-rise-to-six-as-two-die-in-perth-hospitals/12128886
5. Hamilton, Alan (16 November 1984). "Two royal princesses share a day in the limelight". The Times. London. p. 36.
6. Tisdall, Simon (31 October 1984). "Royal Princess a day early". The Guardian. London.
7. ^ The Unofficial Guide to Cruises By Kay Showker, Bob Sehlinger, p. 501
8. "Artemis - P&O Cruises". cruise-ships.com. Retrieved 29 March 2020.
9. "Royal Princess (I)". castlesofthesea.nl. Retrieved 29 March 2020.
10. "Q&A: World's first female captain of a major cruise ship". USA Today. 5 November 2007. Retrieved 22 April 2010.
11. "Sarah Breton:The first female cruise ship captain". Daily Express. 22 April 2010. Retrieved 22 April 2010.
12. Archer, Jane (23 September 2009). "P&O sells Artemis to Artania Shipping". Travel Weekly. Retrieved 29 March 2020.
13. "P&O Artemis Press Statement". Archived from the original on 2 October 2009. Retrieved 22 September 2009.
14. "Artemis to Leave P&O Fleet". Archived from the original on 5 October 2009. Retrieved 22 September 2009.
15. "Lloyd Werft set to tackle Artania overhaul". Seatrade Cruise News. 13 November 2019. Archived from the original on 15 November 2019. Retrieved 29 March 2020.
16. Kagi, Jacob; Trigger, Rebecca; Manfield, Evelyn; Kaur, Herlyn (26 March 2020). "Passengers test positive for COVID-19 on Artania cruise ship off WA coast, Premier asks Navy to get ship to leave". ABC. Retrieved 29 March 2020. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |last-author-amp= ignored (|name-list-style= suggested) (help)
17. Mundy, Garrett; Al Jrood, Tabarak (28 March 2020). "Coronavirus cruise ship passengers bound for Perth hospitals after Artania COVID-19 outbreak". ABC. Retrieved 29 March 2020.
18. "Australia prepares to fly cruise passengers to Germany". AP. 27 March 2020. Retrieved 29 March 2020.
19. "Coronavirus patients from Artania cruise ship sent to Joondalup hospital after 29 new COVID-19 positive tests". ABC News (Australia). 30 March 2020. Retrieved 1 April 2020.
20. "Coronavirus cruise ship Artania refuses to leave WA port of Fremantle in letter to Australian Border Force". ABC News (Australia). 1 April 2020. Retrieved 1 April 2020.
21. "Unwell on COVID-infected cruise ship in WA". The Young Witness. 1 April 2020. Retrieved 1 April 2020.
22. "Cruise ships are still scrambling for safe harbor". CNN. 3 April 2020. Retrieved 3 April 2020.
23. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-04-07/wa-coronavirus-deaths-rise-to-six-as-two-die-in-perth-hospitals/12128886

Bibliography

• Sassoli-Walker, Andrew; Poole, Sharon (2010). Artemis: The Original Royal Princess. Stroud, Gloucestershire, UK: Amberley Publishing. ISBN 9781445600949.

External links

• Phoenix Reisen official site for Artania (in German)
• Professional photographs from shipspotting.com
• "Artania (8201480)". Equasis. Ministry of Ecology, Sustainable Development and Energy. Retrieved 22 April 2013.

• Cruise ships
• Ships of P&O Cruises
• Ships built in Helsinki
• 1984 ships
• Ships of Princess Cruises
• Cruise ships involved in the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic