page_title: RCGS Resolute
section_title: RCGS Resolute
hierarchical_section_title: RCGS Resolute / Career / RCGS Resolute
caption_attribution_description: English: Expedition ship, RCGS RESOLUTE - IMO 9000168, operated by One Ocean Expeditions, in Errera Channel of Antarctica on March 5th, 2019.
context_page_description: RCGS Resolute is a five-star ice-strengthened expedition cruise ship built in 1991 by Rauma shipyard in Finland. She was originally named Society Adventurer, but after Discoverer Reederei was unable to take delivery of the vessel due to financial troubles, the completed ship was laid up at the shipyard for almost two years. In 1993, she was acquired by Hanseatic Tours and renamed Hanseatic. In 2018, she was chartered to One Ocean Expeditions and given her current name.
context_section_description: In June 2017, the Canada-based cruise ship operator One Ocean Expeditions announced that it would expand its fleet of expedition cruise ships with a long-term charter of the former Hanseatic. 
  The ship would be renamed RCGS Resolute after the 
  1850-built Royal Navy Arctic exploration vessel HMS Resolute as well as the Inuit hamlet Resolute in Nunavut. Furthermore, the ship would carry the initials of the Royal Canadian Geographic Society (RCGS) with whom One Ocean Expeditions had partnered. After concluding her career with Hapag-Lloyd, a brief drydocking in Germany and reflagging from the Bahamas to Portugal, the vessel headed to Canada in October 2018 under her new name and with a new livery.
  In 2019, the company's financial difficulties began to surface with the sudden withdrawal of the Russian research vessels Akademik Ioffe and Akademik Sergey Vavilov chartered from the Shirshov Institute of Oceanology. Although One Ocean Expeditions initially called the Russian owner's action a contract violation, it was later revealed that the company had failed to pay charter and fueling fees to the intermediate charterer Terragelida Ship Management which had then terminated the contract. This left One Ocean Expeditions with just one ship, RCGS Resolute. In August, she was briefly arrested in Iqaluit over a C$100,000 payment dispute. While this issue was reportedly solved quickly, another arrest over non-payment of services and crew wages followed in Halifax next month. Finally, in October One Ocean Expeditions was forced to cancel an Antarctic cruise midway after the vessel could not be refueled due to the company's non-payment of outstanding debts. Shortly after the ship's 140 passengers disembarked, RCGS Resolute was detained in Buenos Aires over "significant debt". The company entered administration in January 2020.
  On 5 March 2020, RCGS Resolute left Buenos Aires after the ship's registered owner, Bunnys Adventure & Cruise Shipping Company Limited, paid a total of US$3.6 million of One Ocean Expeditions's outstanding debt to fuel suppliers, ship agents and crew members in order to avoid a court-ordered sale of the vessel. However, in June 2020 it was reported that RCGS Resolute would be sold in an auction in Curaçao to cover the shipowner's nearly $4 million debt. The ship was reportedly sold for $600,000 on 22 June 2020.
caption: RCGS Resolute, operated by One Ocean Expeditions, in Errera Channel, Antarctica
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