Shipbuilding, maintenance & repair
Left: Designs of Le Commandant Charcot, a Polar Class PC2 ship that includes the latest ‘green’ technologies.
Opening page: The Le Commandant Charcot is capable of handling extreme low temperatures and thick ice, while maintaining the expected levels of luxury.
which Stirling handled both the concept design and the external styling.
“The idea was to put an icebreaker’s hull and propulsion system together with the features of a cruise ship to create a single vessel,” Tincelin explains. “Our only frame of reference was the ‘50 Years of Victory’, which has a nuclear power plant on board. That would be a disaster for cruise passengers.” The ‘50 Years of Victory’, which handles polar journeys for Quark Expeditions, is an Arktika-class nuclear icebreaker – the first to have a spoon-shaped bow – that can break through ice up to 2.5m thick. Registered to Rosatomflot in Russia, it has some of the familiar features of a cruise ship – a lounge, a bar,
a pool, a sauna and more – but is not on the scale of Le Commandant Charcot in terms of passenger numbers and it does not have comparable amenities. Though similar in overall size, Ponant’s vessels can cater for 245 passengers, compared with the Victory’s 128, and is styled to provide a higher class of cruise comfort and amenities. Other vessels, notably the Seabourn Venture – which has impressive spaces on board such as the 270º Constellation Lounge, with floor-to-ceiling windows offering unprecedented views of the sea and ice – are also bringing the aesthetics and luxury of the cruise market to polar vessels. That consideration for passenger comfort, however, does bring its own challenges.
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