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MEIN SCHIFF 3 - IMO 9641730

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Photographer:
Kenneth Karsten [ View profile ]
Captured:
Apr 22, 2014
Location:
Turku, Finland
Added:
Apr 22, 2014
Views:
10,767
Image Resolution:
2,930 x 1,953

Description:

Mein Schiff 3 is leaving the shipyard STX Europe in Turku (Finland) for sea trials.

Vessel
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Current name:
MEIN SCHIFF 3
Current flag:
Malta
Home port:
Valletta
Vessel Type:
Passenger (cruise) Ship
Gross tonnage:
99,526 tons
Summer DWT:
7,900 tons
Length:
293.2 m
Beam:
42.2 m
Draught:
8.25 m

AIS Position
of this ship

Last known position:
52°37’10.58” N, 3°41’13.88” E
Status:
Speed, course (heading):
11.3kts, 345.0° (342°)
Destination:
 - Location:
Lisboa
 - Arrival:
1st Apr 2024 / 05:45:01 UTC
Last update:
24 minutes ago
Source:
AIS (ShipXplorer)

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This ship exists in the following categories:

Cruise Ships and Liners - 2 photos

Ship Interior - 1 photos

Ships under Repair or Conversion - 3 photos

Ship's Deck - 11 photos

Ships under Construction - 13 photos

Ships' Lifeboats and Tenders - 5 photos

Cruise Ships and Liners built 2011-2020 - 324 photos

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Folke

7 photos

simonwp

1 photos

jonges

1 photos

Mikkel

2 photos

Dick Gorter

2 photos

Jan Ove

4 photos

Ulf Kornfeld

4 photos

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1 photos

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4 photos

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4 photos

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1 photos

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5 photos

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1 photos

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2 photos

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3 photos

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2 photos

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4 photos

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person
Great photo of this ship. Not a very special design but good looking in the TUI-colours.

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person
@Tim,

Yes, the Viking Grace is an innovative design, and a cruise ferry of reasonable size. It is well written up in the "Significant Ships of 2013" book that was recently published by the R.I.N.A.
There is a sister ship to M.S.3 being built - Mein Schiff 4 to be delivered late next year from STX Turku, and no doubt many of us will be looking out for photos during the build and at launch.

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@ Nigel,
Actually there was one new build in Turku in between this Mein Schiff 3 and Allure; M/S Viking Grace. Not a large ship, but an innovative design. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viking_Grace
Tim

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Hi Nigel, yes, Europa is owned by Hapag-Lloyd if I am not mistaken whereas Europa 2 is only chartered by Hapag-Lloyd. And no, I don't see the AIDA fleet as German owned. As you know, AIDA is owned by Costa Crociere which in turn is owned by the Carnival group.

And thanks for the additional info which had escaped my attention as I wrote my first comment. Indeed, almost 4 years since a big cruise ship was built a Turku...
So she's an interesting ship that way, too!

Kind regards,
Jens

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Jens - Do you count the Europa and Europa 2 as being German owned ? They have a higher GRT than the Deutchland. I presume you do not count the Aida lot of new builds from Papenburg as being German owned.
There is a lot of interest in these new cruise ships being built in the STX Turku yard from people worldwide. I presume this is the 1st one since the "Allure of the Seas" was launched a couple of years .
Kenneth, Folke and Aleksi have all produced a nice series of photos in recent days, as they always do when there is enough sun and light.

Kind Regards,

Nigel.

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Oops, according to the TUI website the naming ceremony is on June 12. I apologize...

Steffen, I keep my fingers crossed for you!:-)

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person
Hope she comes to Aarhus one day:-)
Nice picture.
Brgds Steffen.

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Kenneth
I did not say you did, I said, most probably it has to do with that
a link can also be from the outside, for example someone uses your picture in another forum and links it.

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I think the latter is the case, the photo was linked to from another website.

And why not?

I think many people have an interest in this ship. She must be the biggest newly built passenger vessel to enter service for a German owner since MS Deutschland in 1998.

Anyway, I'm looking forward to her first call here at Hamburg on June 1 and her naming ceremony on June 11. :-)

Abnd Kenneth, nice photo!

Cheers, Jens

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person
This is a cool photo of a fine looking ship, so let it have all the views it can... ;)

(And it's definitely waaaaay better than the first photo of Triple E posted here.) ;)

The question is whether the site benefits from this avalanche of views.

Rgds

Vlad

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person
Must be Ken,,various pictures of this ship getting more hits in the 48 hrs then the famous Triple-E ships ever got at one time !!!

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person
I am investigating this, something is very wrong somewhere.

Kind Regards
Ken

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Kenneth
I did not say you did, I said, most probably it has to do with that
a link can also be from the outside, for example someone uses your picture in another forum and links it.

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person
Believe it or not, but a lot of people actually like these new ships. Also, couldn't it be that a news website of some sort posted a link to this image?

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Jadran and Captain Ted

I just posted a picture, as hundreds of times before :) That is all. I did not link the photo anywhere else as you, Captain Ted, suggest. Perhaps this question should be directed to the administration, maybe there is a failure on the site? The number of views in such a short time period is surprising me too.

Kind regards,

Kenneth

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person
In full-screen they don't look like balconies at all. I suspect that they mark the site of (yet to be fitted) external elevators or something of the sort.

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person
Hi, why are there 2 rows of balconies painted in orange, are those balconies or something else?
Nice shot btw!

Mark

Mark

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@ Jadran
No excuse needed, go to the Forum and read my thread on it.

http://forum.shipspotting.com/index.php/topic,12873.msg69351.html#new
Most probably to do with that

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person
How come this pic entered onto TOP1 in a jiffy (even without one comment) !!!???

I very much apologize for my personal reaction,, but I'm really much surprised and curious ... how did this photo manage to achieve such instant and great success !

I'm sorry Kenneth,, please excuse me !
With all respect,
Jadran

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