Emerald Princess Webcam – Crown Class Views from the Bridge

The Emerald Princess Webcam shows the bridge view from Emerald Princess, the second of three Crown Class ships Princess Cruises put into service between 2006 and 2008. A satellite still from the bridge lands on the page every five minutes, so the picture updates itself in steps rather than playing as video. The masts on the bow stand at the bottom of the frame, a box in the top left corner names the ship and gives the time in UTC and in local time, the temperature sits in the top right corner, and a caption along the bottom says whether she is in port or which port she is bound for. What fills the rest depends on the day’s sailing: blue water to the horizon, a coast slipping by, or a harbor with the town rising behind it.

About Emerald Princess

Princess ordered Emerald Princess from Fincantieri on September 23, 2004. Her keel was laid on September 14, 2005, she was launched at Monfalcone, Italy, on June 1, 2006, and she was handed over on March 24, 2007. Commercial service began on April 11, 2007 with 12-day Mediterranean and Greek Isles cruises, and on May 13, 2007 she was christened in Greece by Florence Henderson, Marion Ross, Erin Moran and Susan Olsen. That fall she crossed to Fort Lauderdale for her first Caribbean season.

Her usual pattern has been Europe in summer and the United States in winter. Past itineraries have included 11-day cruises to Scandinavia from Copenhagen and Warnemunde near Rostock, 10-day cruises to Canada and New England from New York, and 10-day Caribbean cruises from Fort Lauderdale. In 2014 she was based in Southampton for the Baltic, the Mediterranean, the Norwegian fjords and the Canary Islands, then spent the winter of 2014 and 2015 on western Caribbean cruises from Houston. She is registered in Hamilton, Bermuda.

Emerald Princess Details

What Can You See on the Emerald Princess Webcam?

The Emerald Princess Webcam points forward from the bridge, so the bow masts anchor every frame and the scene beyond them shifts with the voyage. At sea it is a broad stretch of ocean below a wide sky, the swell and the light changing from one image to the next. Closer in, cliffs, beaches and islands line the horizon, and in port the camera can look across the harbor to quays, cranes and buildings. After dark the masts stand out as lit shapes against a nearly black frame. 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.

The Crown Class Design

The Crown Class is the fourth Princess version of the Grand Class design that began with Grand Princess in 1998, building on the layout of Caribbean Princess. Compared with the original Grand Class, the three Crown Class ships, Crown Princess, Emerald Princess and Ruby Princess, have two more passenger decks and a poolside theater, and they move the signature nightclub from the stern to a spot just aft of the funnel. The design went on to serve as the basis for P&O Cruises’ Ventura Class.

Emerald Princess has 15 passenger decks and room for 3,114 guests in lower berths, with a crew of 1,200. Six diesel generators produce 67 megawatts, and two electric propulsion motors of 21 megawatts each turn fixed-pitch propellers. She has had dry-dock refurbishments in December 2012 and again from November 30 to December 13, 2015. Her draft is 8 meters (26.2 feet).

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Source: Princess Cruises