![]() Le Champlain moored with
HMS Belfast, in
The Thames, 11 May 2024
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Name | Le Champlain |
Operator | Ponant |
Port of registry |
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Builder |
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Yard number | 849 |
Laid down | 20 April 2017 |
Launched | 29 March 2018 |
Acquired | 27 September 2018 |
Maiden voyage | 25 October 2018 |
Identification |
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Status | In service |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Ponant Explorers-class cruise ship |
Capacity | 180 passengers |
Le Champlain is the second ship of the Ponant Explorers-class of cruise ships operated by Ponant. Each member of the class has been allocated the name of a famous French explorer, and Le Champlain is named after Samuel de Champlain, "The Father of New France". [1] [2]
Built by VARD, Le Champlain had her hull constructed in VARD's Tulcea yard in Romania, where her keel was laid down on 20 April 2017. [3] A year and one week later, on 27 April 2018, she arrived at the builder's Søviknes facility in Ålesund, Norway, for final outfitting. [4] She was delivered to Ponant in Ålesund on 27 September 2018. [5]
On 25 October 2018, Le Champlain departed from Honfleur, France on her maiden voyage to Lisbon, Portugal. [6]
Media related to
Le Champlain at Wikimedia Commons
![]() Le Champlain moored with
HMS Belfast, in
The Thames, 11 May 2024
| |
History | |
---|---|
![]() | |
Name | Le Champlain |
Operator | Ponant |
Port of registry |
![]() |
Builder |
|
Yard number | 849 |
Laid down | 20 April 2017 |
Launched | 29 March 2018 |
Acquired | 27 September 2018 |
Maiden voyage | 25 October 2018 |
Identification |
|
Status | In service |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Ponant Explorers-class cruise ship |
Capacity | 180 passengers |
Le Champlain is the second ship of the Ponant Explorers-class of cruise ships operated by Ponant. Each member of the class has been allocated the name of a famous French explorer, and Le Champlain is named after Samuel de Champlain, "The Father of New France". [1] [2]
Built by VARD, Le Champlain had her hull constructed in VARD's Tulcea yard in Romania, where her keel was laid down on 20 April 2017. [3] A year and one week later, on 27 April 2018, she arrived at the builder's Søviknes facility in Ålesund, Norway, for final outfitting. [4] She was delivered to Ponant in Ålesund on 27 September 2018. [5]
On 25 October 2018, Le Champlain departed from Honfleur, France on her maiden voyage to Lisbon, Portugal. [6]
Media related to
Le Champlain at Wikimedia Commons