Crown Princess Webcam – Bridge Cam on the First Crown Class

The Crown Princess Webcam carries the view from the bridge of Crown Princess, the ship that introduced the Crown Class to Princess Cruises in 2006. Princess sends a fresh satellite image from the bridge every five minutes, so the page shows a still picture that replaces itself through the day rather than a video stream. In the top left corner a box names the ship and gives the time in UTC and in local time, the top right corner shows the temperature, and the caption at the bottom reads either “At” the port she is in or “Bound for” the next one. Between the overlays the frame belongs to whatever lies ahead of the bow: a flat line of ocean, a coastline under cloud, or a busy harbor approach.

About Crown Princess

Crown Princess was built by Fincantieri in Italy, launched on September 9, 2005 and completed on May 26, 2006. Her godmother is Martha Stewart. The maiden voyage on June 14, 2006 left Red Hook in Brooklyn, New York, for Grand Turk, Ocho Rios, Grand Cayman and Port Canaveral. She carries 3,080 guests with a crew of 1,200 and is registered in Hamilton, Bermuda.

Few Princess ships have covered as much ground. Crown Princess sailed the Mediterranean until November 2012, then ran western Caribbean cruises from Galveston, Texas, northern European and Canary Islands cruises from Southampton in 2013, and a voyage around South America in 2014. Later years brought Mexico, Hawaii, the Pacific coast and Alaska, a full season in South America in 2016 and 2017, a return to the British Isles in 2019, and in June 2025 a 113-day world cruise from Sydney. In April 2018 she spent 10 days in an extensive renovation at Freeport in the Bahamas.

Crown Princess Details

What Can You See on the Crown Princess Webcam?

The Crown Princess Webcam looks forward from the bridge, so the view always runs out ahead of the ship. In open water the frame is a band of sea under a large sky, and rain can bead on the lens and soften the horizon on a gray day. When the ship nears land, headlands, beaches and islands rise into the picture, and in port the camera can take in the pier, other ships and a waterfront stretching back into the hills. Night frames are dark. Princess notes that image availability depends on visibility, weather and the satellite connection, so the newest frame can lag behind the time in its caption.

The 2006 Listing Incident

A month into her career, Crown Princess had a serious incident that began on the bridge. On July 18, 2006, about an hour after leaving Port Canaveral for New York, she heeled sharply to starboard. The National Transportation Safety Board found that the second officer, the senior watch officer on the bridge, had disengaged the automatic steering after it made what he felt was an unusually hard turn to port, then steered by hand, turning the wheel back and forth until the ship listed to a maximum of about 24 degrees. Fourteen passengers and crew were seriously injured and 284 had minor injuries, most on the open decks.

Princess Cruises said after an internal review that the incident was due to human error and that personnel changes had been made. With approval from the U.S. Coast Guard and the Bermuda flag authorities, the ship returned to service days later. Like her Crown Class sisters Emerald Princess and Ruby Princess, she has her Skywalkers nightclub built just aft of the funnel rather than suspended over the stern.

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Source: Princess Cruises