History
Name
Frontier Spirit (1990–1993)
Bremen (1993–2020)
Seaventure (2020–present)
Owner
Frontier Cruises (1990–1993)
Hapag-Lloyd / Hapag-Lloyd Cruises (1990–present)
Port of registry: Nassau, Bahamas
Builder: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Kobe, Japan
Yard number: 1182
Laid down: 26 January 1990
Launched: 20 June 1990
Completed: July 1990
Identification
IMO number: 8907424
Call sign: C6JC3
MMSI number: 308429000
Status: In service
General characteristics [2]
Type: Cruise ship
Tonnage
6,752 GT
2,073 NT
1,226 DWT
Length
111.51 m (365 ft 10 in) o/a
98 m (321 ft 6 in) p/p
Beam: 17 m (55 ft 9 in)
Draught: 4.8 m (15 ft 9 in)
Depth: 6.61 m (21 ft 8 in)
Decks: 7
Installed power: 2 × Daihatsu 8 km-32 (2 × 2,427 kW)
Propulsion
Two shafts, controllable pitch propellers
Bow thruster (382 kW)
Speed: 16 knots (30 km/h; 18 mph)
Capacity: 155 passengers
MS Seaventure, formerly Bremen, is a cruise ship operated by Hapag-Lloyd Cruises GmbH since 1993. She was built as Frontier Spirit at the Mitsubishi Shipyard, Kobe, Japan, in 1990.
During a storm in the Southern Atlantic in March 2001, a rogue wave caused heavy damage, even breaking a window on the bridge. It left the ship adrift for two hours without propulsion. A previously uncharted island in the Antarctic was discovered by Bremen in 2003, and was named Bremen Island in 2004. Bremen was also featured in the TV show Killer Waves.
In 2006 she successfully ran the Northwest Passage, helped by satellite images telling where sea ice was.
In July 2018, a crew member shot and killed a polar bear in the Svalbard archipelago. The company claimed that the incident could not have been avoided and was an act of self-defense.
In January 2019 the ship was sold to Scylla AG with a planned handover date of May 2021. In July 2020, Hapag Lloyd Cruises announced that Bremen had been chartered to Havila Kystruten. She was renamed Seaventure in 2020. In 2024, the sale of the ship was announced.