Discovery (cruise ship)

History
Name:	1971–1974: Island Venture 1974–1999: Island Princess 1999–2001: Hyundai Pungak 2001–2002: Platinum 2002–2014: Discovery 2014: Amen
Owner:	2005–2014: Voyages of Discovery
Operator:	1971–1974: Flagship Cruises 1972–1999: Princess Cruises 1999–2001: Hyundai Merchant Marine 2001–2002: Fiducia Shipping 2002–2013: Voyages of Discovery 2013–2014: Cruise & Maritime Voyages
Port of registry:	1971–1974: Oslo  Norway 1974–1999: London,  UK 1999–2002: Panama,  Panama 2002–2014: Hamilton,  Bermuda 2014–2014: Basseterre,  Saint Kitts and Nevis
Cost:	$25 million
Laid down:	1971
Launched:	3 March 1971
Christened:	14 December 1971
Identification:	IMO number: 7108514 Call sign: ZCDG2 MMSI number: 310382000
Status:	Scrapped
General characteristics
Type:	Cruise ship
Tonnage:	20,216 GT
Length:	168.74 m
Beam:	24.64 m
Draught:	7.49 m
Decks:	8 decks passenger accessible
Propulsion:	Three 10-cylinder, One 8 cylinder, GMT-Fiat diesel engines
Speed:	18 knots (33 km/h; 21 mph) (service)
Capacity:	698 passengers
Crew:	350

MV Discovery (formerly Island Venture, Island Princess, Hyundai Pungak and Platinum) was a cruise ship, which was formerly operated by Voyages of Discovery and was last in service for Cruise & Maritime Voyages.

The ship began operation in 1972 with Flagship Cruises, under the name Island Venture. In 1974, she was sold to P&O's Princess Cruises along with sister ship Sea Venture. The pair were renamed Island Princess and Pacific Princess, the latter, laid up since 2008 at the San Giorgio del Porto shipyard in Genoa, Italy, and as of early 2013 apparently destined for scrapping at Aliaga, Turkey. Both appeared in the 1970s television sitcom The Love Boat, although the Pacific Princess was the main feature of the show. The Island Princess operated as part of the Princess fleet until 1999, when she was sold on to Hyundai Merchant Marine of South Korea. Renamed Hyundai Pungak her role was to transport South Korean pilgrims to religious sites in North Korea.

After a brief stint as the Platinum, the ship went through a major refit between 2001 and 2003. Since then, the vessel has been sailing as Discovery under the care of the cruise company Voyages of Discovery (part of the All Leisure Group Plc) cruising out of Harwich and Liverpool in England. Voyages of Discovery sells these cruises predominately to the British, American, Canadian, Australian, New Zealand and South African markets.

For the most part Discovery could be found in the Baltic, Scandinavia, the Mediterranean and Aegean Sea, and North Africa, in the months April–September (Spring and Summer in the Northern Hemisphere), and in South America, Antarctica, the Indian Ocean, India, and the Mediterranean, in the months October–March (Spring and Summer in the Southern Hemisphere).

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