Jewel of the Seas on her way out to sea

[madforcruising]

Jewel of the Seas left the Meyerwerft shipyard at Papenburg ,Germany on 04/04/04 at 03:00am.

 

She is now on her passage on the River Ems to Eemshaven in the Netherlands, from where she will have her Seatrials. If you like to see photos of the Jewel while leyving the shipyard and on the River Ems you can click on the link below in my profile.

 

First pics of the undocking of the Jewel of the Seas:

http://community.webshots.com/album/125049819TVWuuS

 

Jewel of the Seas left Meyerwerft Shipyard

See Photos of River Ems passage

http://community.webshots.com/album/131001309cIkOdH

Jewel of the Seas - 05/28/04 Scandinavia / Russia / Baltic

 

Jewel of the Seas - 09/28/04 Canada / New England

 

 

09/2003 - Legend of the Seas Hawaii

06/2003 - Norwegian Dawn Florida and Bahamas

2002 - MS Columbus - Cruise to nowhere

2001 - Grandeur of the Seas Mediterranean and Transatlantic

2000 - Splendour of the Seas Transatlantic

2000 - Viking Star on the Danube River

1999 - Vision of the Seas Panamacanal cruise

1998 - Vision of the Seas Transatlantic

1997 - Crystal Symphonie to Mexican Riviera

1996 - Delta Queen on the Mississippi

1995 - Legend of the Seas to Alaska

[wolfegizmo]

Thank you for the great pictures!!! We'll be on her in July!!!

[Merion_Mom]

<font size="4">WOW</font size>

 

Thanks for the great photos!

 

Carol

 

 

 

Jewel of the Seas 12/2004

Explorer of the Seas 12/2003

Explorer of the Seas 8/2002

 

<marquee>till we sail on the Jewel! New Year's Cruise.....12/26/04</marquee>

 

<marquee>..........................Oh, no! We have become New Year's Cruise Addicts!</marquee>

[mauibaileys]

Many, many mahalos for the enjoyable photos!

 

Aloha!

[Globaliser]

You made it! You lucky thing. Thanks for the fantastic pictures - I am dead jealous.

[sue.young]

Thanks for sharing the wonderful pictures. Can not wait til Sept 1

 

Sue in KC

 

Brilliance of the Seas

Jewell of the Seas

[MarciaL]

Thank you for the wonderful pictures. We will be on her Sept. 1st for the crossing to Boston.

 

JEWEL

[madforcruising]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Globaliser:

You made it! You lucky thing. Thanks for the fantastic pictures - I am dead jealous.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

 

Globaliser I´m sorry for you as you you really missed a great event. It must be dissapointing taking such efforts like booking a flight and then missing it just for a few hours.

It was really exciting they started the first try arounf 2:00am and had to stop again. Everything looked like they wouldn´t make it again. I don´t know what was the issue. Finally at 3:00am they blew the Horn and started to pass the dock locks, playin "Time to say Goodbye" from the ship. I can tell you it was breathtaking. I was able to stand just few meters away from the ship almost able to reach her. Although it started raining several hundreds of people stayed to watch her.

Hope you get a slight feeling from the pics.

 

First pics of the undocking of the Jewel of the Seas:

http://community.webshots.com/album/125049819TVWuuS

 

Jewel of the Seas left Meyerwerft Shipyard

See Photos of River Ems passage

http://community.webshots.com/album/131001309cIkOdH

Jewel of the Seas - 05/28/04 Scandinavia / Russia / Baltic

 

Jewel of the Seas - 09/28/04 Canada / New England

 

 

09/2003 - Legend of the Seas Hawaii

06/2003 - Norwegian Dawn Florida and Bahamas

2002 - MS Columbus - Cruise to nowhere

2001 - Grandeur of the Seas Mediterranean and Transatlantic

2000 - Splendour of the Seas Transatlantic

2000 - Viking Star on the Danube River

1999 - Vision of the Seas Panamacanal cruise

1998 - Vision of the Seas Transatlantic

1997 - Crystal Symphonie to Mexican Riviera

1996 - Delta Queen on the Mississippi

1995 - Legend of the Seas to Alaska

[PH8]

Absolutley beautiful!!!!! Thanks once again Mad......we really appreciate you doing this....

 

 

 RCCL Serenade--5/30--Alaska

 RCCL Jewel--10/28--repositioning

**RCCL SOS-8/27/04** Carnival Miracle-2/13/05**

[spajke]

Congratulations for the photos. Does anybody has a site with a webcam at Eemshaven?

[ezcruizer]

All I can say is 'oh my goodness'. You guys need to quite. My cruise isn't until December 2004 and I am having such a hard time trying to keep it together. I'm ready to go now.

 

Great pictures madforcruising. I can't wait to get on board. Please keep us posted on the progress of the Jewel. Thank you.

 

 

<marquee>Till we sail on the Jewel of the Seas</marquee>

 

 

Carnival Destiny 10/00

RCCL Voyager of the Seas 08/03

RCCL Jewel of the Seas 12/04

 

 

 

<marquee>What goes hand in hand with cruising? Drinks, drinks, and more drinks.</marquee>

[CGTNORMANDIE]

HI MFC!!!

 

GREAT JOB!!!

 

THANKS...G,

 

ROSS

 

RMS QUEEN ELIZABETH 1965/TS BREMEN 1971/RMS AMERIKANIS 1972/SS FRANCE 1973/SS FRANCE 1973/QE II 1975/QE II 1975/TS LEONARDO DaVINCI 1976/QE II 1978/TS GALLILAO 1984/ MV REGENT SEA 1988/MV ZENITH 1992/SS NORWAY 1993/MV HORIZON 1998/GTS NORWEGIAN SUN 2001/GTS CENTURY 2002/GTS SUMMIT 2003/GTS JEWEL OF THE SEAS 2004

[richterscale]

THANKS MADFORCRUSING!!!!!!JUST LIKE EZCRUISER WE WILL BE ON JEWEL 12-4. I HAVE BEEN WATCHING YOUR PICTURES NOW FOR A WHILE. WOW!!!!!

MY TWO CHILDREN ARE SOOOO EXCITED. THIS WILL BE A GREAT ADDITION TO THEIR REPORTS NEXT YEAR DUE TO ME TAKING THEM ON AN EDUCATIONAL CRUISE!!! THANKS AGAIN AND KEEP EM COMING

RICHTERSCALE

 

Nordic Prince 88 Homeric 89 Seaward 89 Sovereign 94 Majesty 01 Disney Wonder 02 Jewel 04

[Globaliser]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by madforcruising:

Globaliser I´m sorry for you as you you really missed a great event. It must be dissapointing taking such efforts like booking a flight and then missing it just for a few hours.

It was really exciting they started the first try arounf 2:00am and had to stop again. Everything looked like they wouldn´t make it again. I don´t know what was the issue. Finally at 3:00am they blew the Horn and started to pass the dock locks, playin "Time to say Goodbye" from the ship. I can tell you it was breathtaking. I was able to stand just few meters away from the ship almost able to reach her. Although it started raining several hundreds of people stayed to watch her.

Hope you get a slight feeling from the pics.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>Now that I've had a chance to have a good look at your photos on my big computer screen in the office over a fast connection, I almost feel like I was there! I always knew it was going to be a gamble, but this is a great consolation prize. Thank you again.

 

BTW, there is another set of photos from later in the transfer on this page. It looks like these were taken beyond the Ems flood barrier. The shipyard's press release has a few small photos as well.

[MVPinBoynton]

Globaliser,

Thanks for that link to the daylight river passage pictures. I was hoping to see her in the daylight. In 77 days I will be taking my own pictures of her. Can't wait.

 

Mike

 

 

See our reviews and pictures at Mike and Carol's Website

 

Costa Classica 3/94

Celebrity Mercury 4/98

Carnival Destiny 4/99

Crown Princess 7/01

Norwegian Star 11/01

Grand Princess 12/01

Sun Princess 3/02

Celebrity Constellation 11/02

Brilliance of the Seas 6/03

Navigator of the Seas 11/03

Jewel of the Seas 06/04

Tahitian Princess 02/05

[TonyaJune]

Thanks, I can't wait until November 28th.

 

UNTIL I SET SAIL ON THE JEWEL OF THE SEAS

[Globaliser]

One more link - this time with pictures taken from onboard the ship! It looks like there are only the low-res thumbnails on that page, but it's a good first glimpse at the real thing.

 

I can't find any webcams at Eemshaven, but this page is the port's shipping information page. It looks like Jewel is going out on her first sea trial at 2100 tonight (Monday 5 April). The port seems to have her nationality wrong - she's clearly got Nassau painted on her aft end!

[MVPinBoynton]

WOW! The inside is gorgeous. Thank you Globaliser. I have posted links on our Roll Call page so that all of us lucky Jewel cruisers will be able to enjoy them.

 

Mike

 

 

See our reviews and pictures at Mike and Carol's Website

 

Costa Classica 3/94

Celebrity Mercury 4/98

Carnival Destiny 4/99

Crown Princess 7/01

Norwegian Star 11/01

Grand Princess 12/01

Sun Princess 3/02

Celebrity Constellation 11/02

Brilliance of the Seas 6/03

Navigator of the Seas 11/03

Jewel of the Seas 06/04

Tahitian Princess 02/05

[lcyccruiser]

Thanks, madforcruising, for keeping us up to speed on the Jewel...what a magnificant site!!!

Chris

 

Voyager 3/14/04 Days remaining until next cruise

[CAPinBoynton]

Thank you, thank you, thank you to Madforcruising and Globaliser. Although I didn’t think it possible, you have really raised the level of excitement over our upcoming cruise.

 

 

See our reviews and pictures at Mike and Carol's Website

 

Costa Classica 3/94

Celebrity Mercury 4/98

Carnival Destiny 4/99

Crown Princess 7/01

Norwegian Star 11/01

Grand Princess 12/01

Sun Princess 3/02

Celebrity Constellation 11/02

Brilliance of the Seas 6/03

Navigator of the Seas 11/03

Jewel of the Seas 06/04

Tahitian Princess 02/05

[cruisingdoc]

Great pics! Thanks.

 

until the Jewel of the Seas New Year's Cruise

 

 

 

 

 

[Globaliser]

[struggling terribly with URLs.]

 

[This message was edited by Globaliser on 04-06-04 at 06:59 PM.]

[Globaliser]

Brush up your German, everyone! As you can imagine, the transfer caused a lot of press interest and comment. If you can persevere with the translation tool, there are some interesting nuggets in here, plus a few photos of varying qualities. The best nugget is at the end. Most links run through *****.com. I've tried to keep out duplications, and all these translations of titles are very approximate!

 

Press articles etc.

 

East Friesland looks different from deck 13

Larger version of photo

 

Easterly wind delays transfer of the Jewel

Larger version of photo

 

Papenburg: the "Jewel of the Seas" transferred

 

Smooth transfer of "Jewel of the Seas"

 

Ahoy, "Jewel of the Seas"!

 

Larger version of photo in both of the above stories

 

East Friesland looks different from deck 13

Larger version of photo 1 (page with caption)

Larger version of photo 2 (page with caption)

 

In slow motion down the Ems

 

Auch der sechste Pott meistert die Tücken der Ems

Larger version of photo

 

First journey of the "Jewel of the Seas"

 

Impressions before and during the transfer (from the Papenburg tourist site)

 

Photos on their own

 

A newspaper's photo of the day

 

Photo by Carsten Borrmann (complete page with credits)

Another photo by Carsten Borrmann (complete page with credits)

 

Video

 

Page with transcript of voiceover (choose player and connection speed)

Direct URL to broadband/Windows Media player version

 

Enjoy!

[jstducky]

globaliser:

 

thanks for providing all the links. the videos at the end are great.

 

i can't wait until its my turn to be sailing on her...

 

jstducky!

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...til 9/04 - Jewel of the Seas - Canada / New England

 

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...til 7/04 - Zuiderdam - Western Caribbean

 

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7/03 - Zaandam - Alaska

4/03 - Norweigan Star - Hawaii

7/96 - Noordam - Alaska

7/96 - Golden Princess - Alaska

8/95 - Jubilee - Mexican Riviera

[Globaliser]

Just to keep the collection of links on this thread up to date, I've noticed that uhbad has added some more pictures to his site. This is the direct link to his new Jewel page. Stunning - thank you!