| IMO | 9483126 |
|---|---|
| Gross tonnage | 32,346 GT |
| Length | 198.15 m |
| Beam | 25.6 m |
| Passenger capacity (max) | 450 |
| Service speed | 19 knots |
| Builder | T. Mariotti |
| Hull number | 64 |
| Launched | 2011 |
| Maiden voyage | 2011 |
| Class | Odyssey-class cruise ship |
| Operator | Seabourn Cruise Line |
| Status | Active |
Overview
Seabourn Quest is an ultra-luxury cruise ship operated by Seabourn Cruise Line, the third and final member of the line's Odyssey class. Built in Genoa, Italy, and entered into service in June 2011, she completed a three-ship newbuilding programme that, in Seabourn's own assessment, tripled the line's passenger capacity while keeping individual ship size small — at 32,346 GT and 450 guests she and her sisters were among the smallest ships operated by any major cruise company. She has sailed under one name and one operator for her whole career, and she remains a reference point for the early-2010s generation of small, all-suite luxury ships.
Key specifications
The frozen dataset gives 32,346 GT, a length of 198.15 m, a beam of 25.6 m, capacity for 450 passengers, yard number 64 and IMO 9483126. One dataset figure needs context: the 25.5 knots listed as service speed is in fact her maximum speed — her reference article gives a service speed of 19.0 knots, with 25.5 knots attainable at full power, and that correction is logged with this batch. Her machinery comprises four Wärtsilä 12V32 diesel engines driving two electric propulsion motors and controllable-pitch propellers. Reference sources list a crew of about 335, giving the roughly one-to-one guest-to-crew relationship on which her operator's service model depends. Tonnage was marginally restated, to 32,348 GT, after her 2013 refit.
Design and construction
Seabourn Quest was built by the Italian shipbuilder T. Mariotti at Genoa — the builder field is blank in the dataset, and the omission is logged. She used the same design as her two preceding sisters, Seabourn Odyssey (2009) and Seabourn Sojourn (2010), an evolution of the smaller earlier Seabourn ships scaled up to carry roughly double their guests while retaining an all-suite layout. The design's signatures are a high proportion of balcony suites, a central social hub, and a retractable marina platform at the stern for watersports in suitable anchorages — features that defined Seabourn's move from its original trio of 200-guest ships to the 450-guest Odyssey generation.
Naming, launch and maiden voyage
Unusually, her name was crowdsourced. Seabourn invited submissions from the public between September and December 2009; from about 2,100 suggestions, "Quest" — proposed by 120 entrants — was selected. The ship was delivered on 31 May 2011 and christened on 20 June 2011, the same day as her maiden voyage, beginning service that June. The dataset's launched and maiden-voyage years of 2011 are consistent with that delivery sequence, although reference sources treat 2010–11 as the construction period at Mariotti's Genoa yard.
Career by operator
| Period | Name | Operator |
|---|---|---|
| 2011–present | Seabourn Quest | Seabourn Cruise Line |
The dataset's operator history also lists Holland America Line. That reflects corporate history rather than a change of shipboard operator: Seabourn was long managed within the same Carnival Corporation group structure as Holland America, and reference sources consistently show Seabourn Quest herself operated by Seabourn Cruise Line from delivery to the present. She has never been chartered out, renamed or transferred, and her career is best read as a single continuous deployment in the ultra-luxury segment, punctuated by refits rather than by changes of identity.
Onboard character
The Odyssey-class design is built around space per guest. All accommodation is in suites, the great majority with balconies, and the ship's social centre is Seabourn Square — a combined library, reception, café and concierge hub that replaced the traditional single reception desk. A two-deck spa, among the largest then offered in ultra-luxury cruising, and the stern marina for swimming and watersports in calm anchorages are the other era-defining features. Dining follows the small-ship luxury pattern of a main open-seating restaurant plus smaller speciality venues, rather than the multi-dozen outlet model of large resort ships. The overall character is that of a boutique hotel that happens to move.
Major refits and incidents
Her reference article records her status as "in service after May 13–June 2, 2013 refit", the early refit at which her measured tonnage was slightly restated. No major casualty, grounding or passenger incident involving Seabourn Quest is recorded in the sources consulted for this guide; her service history to date is notable mainly for its continuity. Later routine dry-dock work is not itemised in the sources consulted.
Sister ships and class
She is the third of the three Odyssey-class sisters: Seabourn Odyssey (2009), Seabourn Sojourn (2010) and Seabourn Quest (2011), all built by T. Mariotti to the same basic design. The dataset's class field is blank; Wikipedia classifies the design as the Seabourn Odyssey class, and that omission is logged. The class was succeeded in Seabourn's fleet by the larger Encore class from 2016, making the Odyssey trio the line's mid-size generation between its original small ships and its later expedition and larger luxury tonnage.
Fate and where she is now
The dataset lists her status as active and her fate as operating, and her reference article records her as in service with Seabourn Cruise Line, registered at Nassau in the Bahamas. She remains in the ultra-luxury trade under her original name — the final expression of the three-ship programme that reshaped Seabourn in 2009–11, and still one of the smaller ships in service with a major cruise group.
Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cruise_ships, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MV_Seabourn_Quest