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Ceremonial ship launching involves the performing of ceremonies associated with the process of transferring a vessel to the water. It is a nautical tradition in many cultures, dating back millennia, to accompany the physical process with ceremonies which have been observed as public celebration and a solemn blessing, usually but not always, in ...
Keel laying is one of the four specially celebrated events in a ship's life; the others are launching, commissioning, and decommissioning. Earlier, the event recognized as the keel laying was the initial placement of the central timber making up the backbone of a vessel, called the keel .
Trainor helped launch the ship during a three-night preview sailing ahead of its official debut on Friday. As part of her duties, she took part in the ship’s naming ceremony and performed a ...
Ship commissioning is the act or ceremony of placing a ship in active service and may be regarded as a particular application of the general concepts and practices of project commissioning. The term is most commonly applied to placing a warship in active duty with its country's military forces. The ceremonies involved are often rooted in ...
Construction began with the steel cutting ceremony on 1 February 2019. [8] The keel was laid on 3 May 2019. The coin ceremony was announced on the same day, featuring a coin being placed under the first block out of 79 total blocks of the vessel. [9] Odyssey of the Seas floated out of Meyer Werft's shipyard on 28 November 2020.
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Royal Caribbean applied to register a trademark for Utopia of the Seas in 2021, along with 23 other ship names. [6] The company announced the name Utopia of the Seas at the steel cutting ceremony on 5 April 2022, [7] and the keel was laid on 1 July. [8] The LNG-tanks were built by Wärtsila and delivered in November 2022. [9]
The ship was launched into San Francisco Bay on schedule on 28 July 1890 and work started on rigging and outfitting. [12] The ship was dedicated on the afternoon of 25 September 1890 in a lengthy ceremony attended by about 1,500 people.