page_title: MV Discovery
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: MV Discovery / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Island Princess Station Pier Melbourne 1986 Author Paul Dashwood IMO number: 7108514 MMSI: 310382000 Call sign: ZCDG2 Gross tonnage: 20.186 tons Built in 1972 by Rheinstahl Nordseewerke, Emden, Germany Former names since 1975 Nov 11 Island Venture since 1999 Apr 05 Island Princess since 2001 Aug 24 Hyundai Pungak Platinum Deutsch: Länge: cà 169 m Breite: cà 24 m Tiefgang: cà 6 m Kabinen: 355 Passagiere: 710 Besatzung: 350 Klassifizierungsgesellschaft: Lloyds Register Geschwindigkeit: 21,5 Knoten Flagge: Neuseeland Heimathafen: Hamilton
context_page_description: MV Discovery was a cruise ship, which was formerly operated by Voyages of Discovery and was last in service for Cruise & Maritime Voyages.
context_section_description: The ship began operation in 1972 with Flagship Cruises, under the name Island Venture. In 1974, she was sold to P&O's Princess Cruises along with sister ship Sea Venture. The pair were renamed Island Princess and Pacific Princess, the latter, laid up since 2008 at the San Giorgio del Porto shipyard in Genoa, Italy, and as of early 2013 apparently destined for scrapping at Aliaga, Turkey. Both appeared in the 1970s television sitcom The Love Boat, although the Pacific Princess was the main feature of the show. The Island Princess operated as part of the Princess fleet until 1999, when she was sold on to Hyundai Merchant Marine of South Korea. Renamed Hyundai Pungak her role was to transport South Korean pilgrims to religious sites in North Korea.
  After a brief stint as the Platinum, the ship went through a major refit between 2001 and 2003, after which the vessel sailed as Discovery under the care of the cruise company Voyages of Discovery (part of the All Leisure Group Plc), cruising out of Harwich and Liverpool in England. Voyages of Discovery sold these cruises predominately to the British, American, Canadian, Australian, New Zealand and South African markets.
  For the most part Discovery could be found in the Baltic, Scandinavia, the Mediterranean and Aegean Sea, and North Africa from April through September (Spring and Summer in the Northern Hemisphere), and in South America, Antarctica, the Indian Ocean, India, and the Mediterranean from October through March (Spring and Summer in the Southern Hemisphere).
  In February 2013, for 249 days, the Discovery sailed for Cruise & Maritime Voyages following a joint agreement with All Leisure Group, in which both companies would operate the ship.
  From 2012 through 2013 the owners of Discovery replaced her under their Voyages of Discovery brand with the refurbished ship MV Voyager.
caption: Island Princess at Station Pier, Melbourne
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