On 17 September 2013, a woman fell two decks from her exterior balcony prior to arriving in Bermuda. Onboard features include a restaurant, Ocean Blue, by Geoffrey Zakarian, and a comedy club, in which a Second City company performs. The ship has a total of 1,604 staterooms and 350 suites. At launch, Norwegian Breakaway was the world's ninth largest cruise ship by gross tonnage. She is 146,600 GT in size, and has capacity for 3,963 passengers, double occupancy. Beginning in late 2018, Breakaway will leave New York, traveling to New Orleans, followed by Miami in early 2019, before sailing out of the Orlando-area port, Port Canaveral, in November 2019. She is the largest cruise ship homeported year-round from New York City. Norwegian Breakaway was home ported at the New York Passenger Ship Terminal in Manhattan, making seven-night cruises to Bermuda (May through September) and seven-night cruises to the Bahamas and Florida (October thru April). On she headed to Bermuda to start her seven-day cruises. ![]() Following several inaugural events, she started her transatlantic cruise from Southampton to New York City, where the naming ceremony took place. Following the handover, Norwegian Breakaway left the port of Bremerhaven, heading for Rotterdam. She was delivered to NCL on 25 April 2013. The ship's godmothers are the New York dancing troupe The Rockettes. Ĭonstruction of Norwegian Breakaway began on 21 September 2011, when the first piece of steel was cut at the Meyer Werft shipyard in Papenburg, Germany. The two ships were named through a public contest Kimberly Powell submitted the name Norwegian Breakaway, which was announced on 14 September 2011. The ship, along with her sister Norwegian Getaway, were the first two ships in "Project Breakaway" ordered by Norwegian Cruise Line. They were named through a public contest - a contestant submitted the name Norwegian Breakaway, which was announced on 14 September 2011. ![]() It, along with Norwegian Getaway, are the first two ships in "Project Breakaway" ordered by Norwegian Cruise Line. Norwegian Breakaway is a cruise ship of Norwegian Cruise Line. Two ABB XO Azipods (2 × 17.5 MW) Three Brunvoll bow thrusters (3 × 3 MW)
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