Engineering:MS Sovereign

MS Sovereign docked at Livorno, Italy, in 2015.
History
Name:	Sovereign of the Seas (1988–2008) Sovereign (2008-2020)
Owner:	Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. (1988–2020)
Operator:	Royal Caribbean International (1988–2008) Pullmantur Cruises (2008-2020)
Port of registry:	1987-2005: Oslo, Norway 2005-2008: Nassau, Bahamas 2008-2020: Valletta, Malta
Builder:	Chantiers de l'Atlantique St. Nazaire, France
Yard number:	A29
Laid down:	June 10, 1986
Launched:	April 4, 1987
Christened:	January 15, 1988
Completed:	December 18, 1987
Maiden voyage:	January 16, 1988 as Sovereign of the Seas March 23, 2009 as Sovereign
In service:	January 16, 1988
Out of service:	2020
Identification:	Call sign: 9HUE9 IMO number: 8512281 MMSI no.: 249539000
Fate:	Scrapped in Aliağa in 2020
General characteristics
Class and type:	Sovereign-class cruise ship
Tonnage:	73,529 GT 45,194 NT 7,546.9 DWT
Length:	268.32 m (880 ft 4 in)
Beam:	32.2 m (105 ft 8 in)
Draft:	7.8 m (25 ft 7 in)
Installed power:	Four 9-cylinder Pielstick-Alsthom diesel engines 21,844 kW (combined)
Propulsion:	Two controllable pitch propellers Two bow thrusters
Speed:	21.5 knots (39.8 km/h; 24.7 mph)
Capacity:	2,850 passengers

MS Sovereign (formerly Sovereign of the Seas) was one of three large cruise ships of the Sovereign class operated by Pullmantur Cruises and formerly by Royal Caribbean International. On 24 June 2020 Sovereign arrived and was beached at Aliağa, Turkey, where she was dismantled.

History

Sovereign of the Seas docked at Nassau, Bahamas in 2004.

She sailed on her maiden voyage on January 16, 1988, and was initially based at the Port of Miami.

In 1998 and 1999, the Royal Caribbean International cruise company was fined US$9 million because Sovereign of the Seas had repeatedly dumped oily waste into the ocean and tried to hide this using false records, including fake piping diagrams given to the US Coast Guard. Because the company was and is incorporated in Liberia, Royal Caribbean argued that this case was not in the jurisdiction of US courts.

Her refurbishment in November 2004 was the subject of the Travel Channel mini-series Dry-Dock, A Cruise Ship Reborn. Throughout her time with Royal Caribbean she sailed cruises to the Bahamas and the Caribbean out of Miami and Port Canaveral, Florida. These cruises visited Coco Cay, one of RCI's privately owned islands, in the Berry Islands group.

Sovereign docked at Ajaccio, Corsica in 2008 with her original Pullmantur livery.

In November 2008 Sovereign of the Seas was transferred to the fleet of Pullmantur Cruises, a Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd subsidiary, and renamed MS Sovereign. Sovereign set sail on its first voyage with Pullmantur Cruises on March 23, 2009. Similar to other ships in the same class, Sovereign has a multi-deck atrium lobby and a top-deck, funnel-mounted lounge with panoramic views of the sea. The ship's facilities include nine bars, five restaurants, four pools, a spa and a casino.

Monarch (left) and Sovereign (right) beached for scrapping in Aliağa, Turkey in July 2020.

Sovereign being scrapped in Aliaga, Turkey in October 2020.

In 2020, amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Sovereign and MS Monarch were placed into "cold lay-up" and Pullmantur Cruises filed for financial reorganization. According to reports, the interiors of the ships were stripped of "everything of value." On 23 July 2020 she was beached in Aliağa alongside her sistership Monarch, which was beached one day before. Scrapping began in August. Scrapping was finished in February 2021.

See also

• Yucatán, a 2018 Spanish comedy film set on MS Sovereign.
• Dil Dhadakne Do, a 2015 Indian family feature film was set on MS Sovereign.

External links

• Official Website