Norwegian Jade Webcam – Track the Former Pride of Hawaii

The Norwegian Jade Webcam is a forward facing camera mounted high on the superstructure of Norwegian Cruise Line’s Jewel-class ship, looking out over the bow and the water ahead. The image refreshes continuously, so the scene tracks the vessel through a working day: open ocean and an empty horizon on a sea day, then piers, cranes, hillsides and neighboring ships as she comes alongside. Light does most of the work. A flat overcast morning in a northern port looks nothing like midday glare in the tropics, and the camera records both without comment. Because the ship moves, the Norwegian Jade Webcam is less a view of one place than a running record of a hull that has crossed most of the world since 2006.

About Norwegian Jade

Norwegian Jade is a Jewel-class ship built by Meyer Werft at Papenburg in Germany, laid down on February 6, 2005 and launched on February 19, 2006. She measures 294 meters (965 feet) long, with a molded beam of 32.2 meters (106 feet) and a draft of 8 meters (27 feet). Those dimensions were chosen deliberately: they fit the original locks of the Panama Canal, which is what makes the class a Panamax design.

At 93,558 GT she carries 2,402 passengers at double occupancy, rising to 3,590 when every berth is filled, with 1,037 crew spread across 15 decks. Meyer Werft rates her service speed at 25 knots (46 km/h / 29 mph), delivered through Azipod propulsors rather than conventional shafts and rudders. She is registered at Nassau and sails under the Bahamian flag. Two drydockings have reshaped her since delivery: a two-week refit at Marseille in November 2011 that renewed carpets, tiling and hull paint, and a three-week refit in March 2017 that reworked her interiors.

Norwegian Jade Details

What Can You See on the Norwegian Jade Webcam?

At sea the frame is mostly sky and water, split by a horizon that shifts with the swell. Wake spreads back along the hull, weather often arrives as a change in the color of the water long before it reaches the ship, and other vessels start as specks that slowly resolve into hulls. Near land the picture fills up. Headlands and islands slide past, harbor entrances open, and the camera can pick up tugs, pilot boats, container terminals and the upper works of neighboring cruise ships as the Jade maneuvers alongside. In port the view may settle for hours on a quay, a shed roof and whatever traffic crosses the apron.

From Pride of Hawaii to Norwegian Jade

The ship spent her first two years under a different name and a different flag. She was delivered in 2006 as Pride of Hawaii for NCL America, built to United States flag and crewing rules so she could run seven-day interisland cruises that a foreign-flagged ship cannot legally operate. She was christened at Los Angeles on May 22, 2006, and at that point she was the largest and most expensive United States flagged passenger ship ever built, at a cost above half a billion dollars.

The economics did not hold. Sailing alongside Pride of America and Pride of Aloha, she ran into what Norwegian described as downward pricing pressure in the Hawaii market, along with substantial losses in 2006. The company announced her withdrawal on April 11, 2007, and she left Honolulu for the last time on February 4, 2008. Reflagged to the Bahamas and renamed, she joined the main Norwegian fleet and moved to Europe for the summer season. Her three sisters, Norwegian Jewel of 2005, Norwegian Pearl of 2006 and Norwegian Gem of 2007, all entered service with the parent line directly, which leaves Jade as the only Jewel-class hull with a United States flagged past. The 2017 refit stripped out the last of the Hawaiian theming. In 2014 she took on a very different job, serving as a floating hotel at the Sochi Winter Olympics.

Related Live Webcams

Three more cameras from the same fleet, including her closest sister.

• Norwegian Gem Webcam
• Norwegian Breakaway Webcam
• Norwegian Bliss Webcam

Source: Norwegian Cruise Line