Ī scale model of Explorer is on display at Canterbury Museum, Christchurch in Christchurch, New Zealand. Explorer was nicknamed "the Little Red Ship". Įxplorer was depicted on at least two postage stamps issued by South Georgia and one issued by the Falkland Islands. In 1998, Explorer was the first ship to circumnavigate James Ross Island and the same year, she is claimed to have been the first ship, as distinct from river boat, to sail 80 miles (130 km) above Iquitos, Peru, to the point where the Marañón and Ucayali rivers meet to become the Amazon River. In 1989 she was involved in the rescue of the crew of an Argentine supply ship that had hit a rock ledge off Anvers Island, Antarctica. In 1984, Explorer was the first cruise ship to navigate the Northwest Passage. The 70 passengers and 34 of the crew were rescued by the Chilean Navy Antarctic transport Pioto Pardo, leaving the captain and a skeleton crew of 21 on board to await the arrival of a tug. On 25 December 1979, Lindblad Explorer ran aground off Wiencke Island in the Antarctic. She was towed to Buenos Aires, Argentina and then to Kristiansand, Norway, for repairs. On 11 February 1972 Explorer ran aground near La Plaza Point, Antarctica her passengers, Lars-Eric Lindblad among them, were rescued by the Chilean Navy. The vessel was originally named Lindblad Explorer after Lars-Eric Lindblad and was the first custom-built expeditionary cruise ship. It is not known when the ice class was uprated to 1A. Her original Finnish-Swedish ice class was 1C, which is relatively weak. The ship was built to stay afloat with two compartments filled with water. Įxplorer was commissioned by Lars-Eric Lindblad, the Swedish-American pioneer of exotic expedition tours, and built in 1969 at Uudenkaupungin Telakka shipyard in Uusikaupunki, Finland. This is broadly consistent with the direction of the prevailing current. The Royal Navy Antarctic Patrol Ship Endurance, at the request of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office whilst carrying out a hydrographic survey for the British Antarctic Survey, later pinpointed Explorer 's final resting place as 62° 24′ 17.57″ South, 57° 11′ 46.49″ West at an approximate depth of 1,130 m, a distance of 4,373 m from her reported sinking position. Explorer was confirmed by the Chilean Navy to have sunk at approximate position 62° 24′ South, 57° 16′ West, between South Shetlands and Grahams Land, in the Bransfield Strait, where the depth is roughly 600 m. Įxplorer was abandoned in the early hours of 23 November 2007 after taking on water near the South Shetland Islands in the Southern Ocean, an area which is usually stormy but was calm at the time. Ownership of the vessel changed several times, the last owner being the Toronto-based travel company G.A.P Adventures which acquired Explorer in 2004. The vessel was named MS Lindblad Explorer originally (until 1985), and MS Society Explorer until 1992. Its 1969 expeditionary cruise to Antarctica was the forerunner for today's sea-based tourism in that region. The ship was commissioned and operated by the Swedish explorer Lars-Eric Lindblad. She was the first cruise ship to sink there, when she struck an iceberg on 23 November 2007. MS Explorer was a Liberian-registered cruise ship, the first vessel of that kind used specifically to sail the icy waters of the Antarctic Ocean. ICE-1A (as per BNV, equals Finnish-Swedish IA) Ģ × MaK diesel M452 AK each 1,800 bhp (1,300 kW), driving a single variable-pitch propeller, 4 blades Uudenkaupungin Telakka, Uusikaupunki, Finland 1992–2003: Explorer Shipping, Monrovia, Liberia.1985–1992: Discoverer Reederei GmbH, Germany.1983–1985: Ferry Services Curacao NV, Willemstad, Netherlands Antilles.1980–1982: Lindblad Swire Cruises, Panama.1972–1980: Swedish American Line, Gothenburg, Sweden.
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