Discovery Princess Webcam – Last of the Royal Class Ships

The Discovery Princess Webcam shows the view from the bridge of Discovery Princess, the sixth and final Royal Class ship built for Princess Cruises, delivered in 2022. The image is a satellite still that Princess replaces every five minutes, so the page shows one photograph at a time instead of a video stream. As on the rest of the fleet, a box in the top left corner names the ship and gives the time in UTC and in local time, a weather box in the top right gives the temperature, and a caption at the bottom reads either “At” a port or “Bound for” the next one. The camera looks forward, so the scene is whatever lies ahead: an open horizon, a coast taking shape, or the lights and quays of a harbor.

About Discovery Princess

Carnival Corporation finalized the order for a sixth Royal Class ship for Princess in January 2017, with Fincantieri as builder. Steel cutting took place on February 14, 2019 at Fincantieri’s yard in Castellammare di Stabia, Italy, and Princess announced the name on October 4, 2019. Her inaugural cruise was first planned for November 2021 from Civitavecchia, but the pandemic slowed the work and Carnival renegotiated its newbuild contracts in January 2021, pushing her delivery back. She floated out on March 18, 2021, completed five days of sea trials that December, and was delivered at Monfalcone on January 28, 2022.

Discovery Princess was the first ship Fincantieri delivered in 2022 and the 75th Fincantieri vessel classed and registered by Lloyd’s Register. Her week-long inaugural voyage left Los Angeles for the Mexican Riviera on March 27, 2022, and after a month there she moved to Seattle for a first summer on the Inside Passage. She carries 3,660 passengers and a crew of 1,346 and is registered in Hamilton, Bermuda.

Discovery Princess Details

What Can You See on the Discovery Princess Webcam?

From its post on the bridge, the Discovery Princess Webcam looks out over the bow toward the horizon. Days at sea give a simple frame of water and sky, where the color of the ocean, the height of the swell and the cloud overhead do the changing. Near land the view gains a shoreline, offshore islands and other vessels, and in port it can hold a terminal, a breakwater and a city stepping up the hills behind. At night the picture is close to black apart from lights on the bow and ashore. Princess notes that image availability depends on visibility, weather and the satellite connection, so a frame can lag or the camera can go quiet for a while.

Built in Two Yards, Delivered the Long Way

Discovery Princess came from two Fincantieri yards. Her bow section was launched at Castellammare di Stabia over two days on July 31, 2020, three months behind schedule because of the pandemic, and was then taken to Monfalcone to be joined to the rest of the ship. Once delivered, she reached her first home port by sailing east rather than west: from Italy through the Suez Canal, with a stop in Singapore for supplies, and then across the Pacific to Los Angeles.

Four godparents christened her at the Port of Los Angeles on April 29, 2022: designer Randy Fenoli, chef Alex Guarnaschelli, special effects designer Adam Savage and real estate agent Page Turner. Like the rest of the class, she runs on four Wartsila engines producing 62.4 megawatts for two 18-megawatt propulsion motors, with a top speed of 23 knots (43 km/h / 26 mph).

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Source: Princess Cruises