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Sunday, December 6, 2015

Royal Caribbean's Anthem of the Seas

QUANTUM CLASS

MS Anthem of the Seas is operated by Royal Caribbean International and is the second ship in the Quantum class of cruise ships. She was built at the Meyer Werft shipyard in Papenburg, Germany. After her delivery to Royal Caribbean, Anthem sailed from Germany to Southampton, England where she operated out of during the European cruising season of the summer of 2015. By mid November 2015 Anthem had arrived in New York and on 22 November she departed to begin an eight-day round trip Bahamas cruise with the ports of call being Port Canaveral, Coco Cay, Nassau and back to New York. Anthem of the Seas is scheduled to operate round trip New York to the Bahamas, Caribbean, and Bermuda cruises throughout 2016.

length 1142 ft (348 m)
width 135 ft (41 m) at the waterline
weight 167,800 gross rated tons
decks 18
propulsion Diesel-electric. Two podded azimuth thrusters, stern; four bow thrusters.
speed 22 kts cruising speed
passenger capacity 4180
crew 1500
laid down 20. November 2013
launched 20. February 2015
maiden voyage 22. April 2015
Anthem of the Seas leaving the builder. By Ein Dahmer (Own work) [CC BY-SA 4.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)], via Wikimedia Commons