Return after 27 years

Press release Bremerhaven, 30. November 2011

Cruise ship "Black Watch" – lengthened 27 years ago - is back in service after nine days at Lloyd Werft

The ship was lengthened at the yard 1984, when she was still called “Royal Viking Star”. Now the 28,613 GT, 205.46 metre long Fred Olsen Cruises cruise liner has been back in Bremerhaven as the “Black Watch” for repair and conversion work. Inside just nine days the cruise ship, built at Wärtsilä in Helsinki in 1972, was overhauled in the yard’s giant Kaiserdock 11 for her winter cruise shipping season in southern latitudes. The “Black Watch” left Lloyd Werft on Thursday.

Apart from routine hull cleaning and painting, a highlight of the work on the ship was the exchange of a complete davit and life boat station. In addition, both articulated stabiliser fins were overhauled ashore and the bow thruster was replaced. Steel work was required in the tanks along with maintenance and repair work in the machinery, electrical engineering and steel sectors.

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