Norwegian Escape

The Norwegian Escape shortly after launch
History
Name:	Norwegian Escape
Owner:	Norwegian Cruise Line
Builder:	Meyer Werft
Cost:	$ 1.4 billion (together with Norwegian Joy) Previously named the Norwegian Bliss
Yard number:	S693
Laid down:	19 September 2014
Launched:	15 August 2015
Maiden voyage:	9 November 2015
In service:	23 October 2015
Identification:	Call sign: C6BR3 IMO number: 9677076 MMSI number: 311000341 DNV GL ID: 33199
General characteristics
Class and type:	Breakaway Plus-class cruise ship
Tonnage:	165,300 GT
Length:	1,069 feet (325.9 m)
Beam:	136 feet (41.4 m) (waterline) 153 feet (46.5 m) (max)
Draft:	28.29 feet (8.622 m)
Decks:	20
Installed power:	2 × MAN 14V48/60CR (2 × 16,800 kW) 3 × MAN 12V48/60CR (3 × 14,400 kW) 1 × Cat 3516C DH (1 × 2,500 kW)
Propulsion:	Diesel-electric: 2 × ABB Azipod XO units (2 × 20 MW) 3 × Brunvoll AS FU 115 LTC3000 thrusters (3 × 3.5 MW)
Capacity:	4,266
Crew:	1,733

Norwegian Escape is a cruise ship for Norwegian Cruise Line, in service since October 2015. It was built by Meyer Werft in Papenburg, Germany.

Norwegian Escape is a Breakaway Plus-class cruise ship, which also includes Norwegian Joy and Norwegian Bliss. The Breakaway Plus class are being built by Meyer Werft in Papenburg, Germany, for Norwegian Cruise Line. The vessel entered service in October 2015, where it completed a series of short preview sailings from Hamburg, Germany and Southampton, UK. The 164,600 GT ship departed Southampton on 29 October 2015 on her transatlantic crossing to Miami, where the ship will be based year-round offering seven-night Caribbean cruises.

The name of the ship was selected in a contest on USA Today. In 2014, Guy Harvey was chosen to paint the hull art.

The Norwegian Escape is homeported in PortMiami, sailing seven-day Eastern Caribbean cruising to Tortola, British Virgin Islands; St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands; and Nassau, Bahamas. Norwegian Getaway will move to the western Caribbean run.

The first section was launched on 5 December 2014. A second section was launched 21 February 2015. Norwegian Escape was floated out of Meyer Werft's building hall on 15 August 2015, with sea trials beginning on 16 September. She was officially delivered to Norwegian Cruise Lines on 22 October., and took circa 3500 passengers on the inaugural passenger cruise from Southampton to Miami, leaving Southampton (UK) on Thursday 29 October, arriving in Miami on Sunday 8 November

On 9 November 2015, the first godfather to a cruise ship, Pitbull, officially named the ship at a naming ceremony in Miami.