MS Deutschland
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| Builder: | Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft, Kiel, Germany |
| Yard number: | 328 |
| Launched: | 16 January 1998 |
| Christened: | 11 May 1998 |
| Acquired: | 11 May 1998 |
| Maiden voyage: | 11 May 1998 |
| In service: | 16 May 1998 |
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| Status: | In service |
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| Type: | Cruise ship |
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| Length: | 175.30 m (575 ft 2 in) |
| Beam: | 23 m (75 ft 6 in) |
| Draught: | 5.79 m (19 ft 0 in) |
| Decks: | 10 (7 passenger accessible) |
| Installed power: | 2 × MaK-Dieselmotorenwerk Rostock |
| Propulsion: | Twin screw |
| Speed: | 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph) |
| Capacity: | 520 passengers (as built 1998) |
MS Deutschland (also sailing as World Odyssey from September 2015 until April 2016) is a cruise ship launched in 1998 and owned and operated by Peter Deilmann Cruises until 2015. She is decorated in the 1920s style as it could be seen in SS Columbus of Norddeutscher Lloyd. The ship carries 513 passengers and 260 crew members. She has a gross tonnage of 22,400 and has seven passenger accessible decks.
The German television show Das Traumschiff ("The Dream Ship"), had been filmed on board for fifteen years as the MS Deutschland travels to tourist destinations around the world.
In 2000, Air France Flight 4590 crashed near Paris. The New York City-bound Concorde charter flight had been carrying passengers for a sixteen-day cruise to South America on board MS Deutschland.
During the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, the German Olympic Committee used the MS Deutschland as a hospitality ship.
On 19 May 2015 the MS Deutschland was sold over to the Absolute Nevada company based in the United States, which purchased the ship for approximately $21 million. The new owners took on approximately half of the crew. Initially the ship was planned to serve as a floating university for the American organization Semester at Sea and in the process was reflagged to Nassau in the Bahamas. It was proposed that the ship would be renamed World Odyssey following a refit at a northern European shipyard.
On 31 May 2015, Plantours announced that they would be chartering the ship for four sailings between 9 June 2015 and 29 July 2015 whilst its usual ship MS Hamburg was repaired. The crew of MS Hamburg travelled to Gibraltar to prepare the ship, before guests embarked on 9 June 2015 in Kiel. Places in the additional 80 cabins were made as a result of MS Deutschland being larger than planned MS Hamburg ship. It was on this occasion that MS Deutschland began sailing under the Bahamas flag, and its funnel was painted into Plantours yellow branding.
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