Owner Clipper Group AS Port of registry Nassau, Bahamas Laid down August 1999 Launched June 2000 | Operator Haimark Line Yard number 4242 Construction started August 1999 Draft 8.4 m | |
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Name Cape May Light (2001)
Sea Voyager (2010)
Saint Laurent (2015) Builders Atlantic Marine, Jacksonville | ||
Saint Laurent is a 210-passenger cruise ship, operated by the Haimark Line. She is owned by the Clipper Group AS, of Copenhagen, Denmark. Formerly known as Sea Voyager and Cape May Light, the ship was built in the United States and entered service in 2001.
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In June 2016 she was renamed Victory I.
Design and description
Saint Laurent has a gross register tonnage of 4954 tons and a deadweight tonnage of 200 tons. The ship is 91.4 metres (300 ft) long overall and 90.2 metres (296 ft) long between perpendiculars. Saint Laurent has a beam of 15.2 metres (50 ft) and draught of 8.4 metres (28 ft).
The ship is powered by a two shaft diesel engine that gives the ship a maximum speed of 13 knots (24 km/h; 15 mph). Characterized by her owners as a "luxury" vessel, she has a capacity of 210 passengers that are bunked in in 105 double staterooms, and are said to have available all the amenities offered on larger vessels.
Construction and career
Laid down in August 1999 by Atlantic Marine at their Jacksonville, Florida shipyard. Constructed under the yard number 4242, the ship was launched in June 2000 and completed on 9 April 2001. Initially named Cape May Light, in 2010 she was renamed Sea Voyager and registered in the United States. In 2011, her registry was changed to Nassau, Bahamas and later that year and in 2015 her named was changed to Saint Laurent.
On 18 June 2015, on the first season she toured the North American Great Lakes, Saint Laurent collided with the Eisenhower Lock, a canal lock on the St Lawrence Seaway. The vessel has a capacity for 210 passengers, and, on the day of the collision, she was carrying 192 passengers, 81 crew, and a local pilot. Twenty-two members of the ship's complement, nineteen passengers and three crew members were slightly injured, and were evacuated.
After the collision the vessel took on water, so the lock was completely drained. The collision caused the Seaway to be out of commission for 42 hours, and delayed 13 other vessels. Nine hours after the Seaway was reopened another vessel, Tundra, ran aground.
