![]() Le Jacques Cartier leaving Marseille, 30 October 2021
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Name | Le Jacques Cartier |
Operator | Ponant |
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Builder |
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Laid down | 4 April 2018 |
Acquired | 10 July 2020 |
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Status | In service |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Ponant Explorers-class cruise ship |
Capacity | 184 passengers |
Le Jacques Cartier is the sixth 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. [1] Initially, the sixth ship in the class was named Le Surville, after Jean-François-Marie de Surville, a French trader and navigator. [2] [3] However, before entering service she was renamed Le Jacques Cartier, after Jacques Cartier, a French- Breton explorer. [4]
Ponant's order for Le Surville (as she was then named) and a sister ship, the fifth of the class, was announced in March 2018. [5] The hull of each ship was constructed by VARD in the builder's Tulcea yard in Romania; the steel cutting ceremony for both ships took place on 4 April 2018. [3] Upon completion, the hulls were transferred to the builder's Søviknes facility in Ålesund, Norway, for final outfitting. [3]
Following her renaming, Le Jacques Cartier was delivered to Ponant on 10 July 2020. [6] [7]
Media related to
IMO 9852420 at Wikimedia Commons
![]() Le Jacques Cartier leaving Marseille, 30 October 2021
| |
History | |
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![]() | |
Name | Le Jacques Cartier |
Operator | Ponant |
Port of registry |
![]() |
Builder |
|
Laid down | 4 April 2018 |
Acquired | 10 July 2020 |
Identification |
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Status | In service |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Ponant Explorers-class cruise ship |
Capacity | 184 passengers |
Le Jacques Cartier is the sixth 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. [1] Initially, the sixth ship in the class was named Le Surville, after Jean-François-Marie de Surville, a French trader and navigator. [2] [3] However, before entering service she was renamed Le Jacques Cartier, after Jacques Cartier, a French- Breton explorer. [4]
Ponant's order for Le Surville (as she was then named) and a sister ship, the fifth of the class, was announced in March 2018. [5] The hull of each ship was constructed by VARD in the builder's Tulcea yard in Romania; the steel cutting ceremony for both ships took place on 4 April 2018. [3] Upon completion, the hulls were transferred to the builder's Søviknes facility in Ålesund, Norway, for final outfitting. [3]
Following her renaming, Le Jacques Cartier was delivered to Ponant on 10 July 2020. [6] [7]
Media related to
IMO 9852420 at Wikimedia Commons