Viking Spirit and Sun Shipyard Photos

I just found several recent pictures of the Viking Spirit under construction at the Fincatieri shipyard in Ancona, Italy. The Spirit is in the drydock. One picture also shows the Sun is at the adjacent pier where it has been docked since it returned after its initial sea trial in mid-June.

With the embedded link below, you should be able to view the pics, the most recent which are from July 23.

MT

http://http://www.shipfriends.gr/forum/gallery/image/69376-viking-spirit_23-07-17_ancona_2jpg/

I just found several recent pictures of the Viking Spirit under construction at the Fincatieri shipyard in Ancona, Italy. The Spirit is in the drydock. One picture also shows the Sun is at the adjacent pier where it has been docked since it returned after its initial sea trial in mid-June.

 

With the embedded link below, you should be able to view the pics, the most recent which are from July 23.

 

MT

 

http://http://www.shipfriends.gr/forum/gallery/image/69376-viking-spirit_23-07-17_ancona_2jpg/

Mark --

There is a syntax error in the link you have given, so the link isn't working.

It should be http://www.shipfriends.gr/forum/gallery/image/69376-viking-spirit_23-07-17_ancona_2jpg/

Otherwise, great pictures; sorry there aren't more.

Great pictures - thanks - can't wait for September 2018 to board Viking Spirit

Mark --

 

There is a syntax error in the link you have given, so the link isn't working.

 

It should be http://www.shipfriends.gr/forum/gallery/image/69376-viking-spirit_23-07-17_ancona_2jpg/

 

Otherwise, great pictures; sorry there aren't more.

Oops. I see what I did. Thanks much for catching that.

I just found several recent pictures of the Viking Spirit under construction at the Fincatieri shipyard in Ancona, Italy. The Spirit is in the drydock. One picture also shows the Sun is at the adjacent pier where it has been docked since it returned after its initial sea trial in mid-June.

 

With the embedded link below, you should be able to view the pics, the most recent which are from July 23.

 

MT

 

http://www.shipfriends.gr/forum/gallery/image/69376-viking-spirit_23-07-17_ancona_2jpg/

Any idea when float out is for Spirit? And when they will start building number 6?

Any idea when float out is for Spirit? And when they will start building number 6?

I haven't read anything about projected dates for either event. Based on the timing for the Sun, from keel laying to float out (a bit over 8 months), Spirit should touch water sometime in mid- to late-October.

Based on the pics, the bow module for the 7th, 8th and 9th decks hasn't been set in place on the Spirit. There is only one dry dock at Ancona, so keel laying for a future ship (the new Viking lass or that for another customer) won't happen till near the end of the year.

MT

I haven't read anything about projected dates for either event. Based on the timing for the Sun, from keel laying to float out (a bit over 8 months), Spirit should touch water sometime in mid- to late-October.

 

Based on the pics, the bow module for the 7th, 8th and 9th decks hasn't been set in place on the Spirit. There is only one dry dock at Ancona, so keel laying for a future ship (the new Viking lass or that for another customer) won't happen till near the end of the year.

 

MT

End of next year? I would think sooner than that because they are planning to launch #6 in 2019:

Neither link works for me

Neither link works for me

I've been having connection trouble off and on all day long but the link I gave is the one I used to get to the website. I have had it open in my browser all day long but I did have trouble a little bit ago trying to open the link.

Try copying the link and pasting it into a new tab/window. BTW, use the link that I gave because MT's is definitely not going to work.

Just in case, I'll repeat the link: http://www.shipfriends.gr/forum/gallery/image/69375-viking-spirit_23-06-17_anconajpg/?browse=1

And if all else fails, try again tomorrow.

I've been having connection trouble off and on all day long but the link I gave is the one I used to get to the website. I have had it open in my browser all day long but I did have trouble a little bit ago trying to open the link.

 

 

 

Try copying the link and pasting it into a new tab/window. BTW, use the link that I gave because MT's is definitely not going to work.

 

 

 

Just in case, I'll repeat the link: http://www.shipfriends.gr/forum/gallery/image/69375-viking-spirit_23-06-17_anconajpg/?browse=1

 

 

 

And if all else fails, try again tomorrow.

Works. Can see that the MT's link was inadvertently truncated. Yours is complete.

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You can also go to ship friends.gr and search for the ship name. They have additional pictures of the Sun.

Sorry, SHIPFRIENDS.GR

End of next year? I would think sooner than that because they are planning to launch #6 in 2019:

(From the Sky christening press release) The fourth and fifth ships,

Viking Sun

and

Viking Spirit

, are under construction and will be delivered in September 2017 and 2018, respectively. By 2019 Viking will welcome its sixth ship and will become the largest small ship ocean cruise line. Two additional ships are on order for delivery in 2021 and 2022.

 

Sorry, I meant end of this year (2017) for keel laying for the new ship.

I've been having connection trouble off and on all day long but the link I gave is the one I used to get to the website. I have had it open in my browser all day long but I did have trouble a little bit ago trying to open the link.

 

Try copying the link and pasting it into a new tab/window. BTW, use the link that I gave because MT's is definitely not going to work.

 

Just in case, I'll repeat the link: http://www.shipfriends.gr/forum/gallery/image/69375-viking-spirit_23-06-17_anconajpg/?browse=1

 

And if all else fails, try again tomorrow.

Worked fine this time - thanks

thanks.I am really looking forward to our cruise Athens to Mumbai on the Spirit.

.DH and I were just talking about what we are going to book onboard on the next cruise.. i guess we are hooked..