Norwegian Sun Webcam – Bow Views from a Sun Class Veteran

Stream hours: Norwegian Cruise Line puts a new image from the ship online about every 5 minutes, and the player loads each one by itself. After dark the picture is mostly black beyond the lit bow.

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About this webcam

The Norwegian Sun Webcam is a forward ship camera on Norwegian Sun, a Sun class ship that has sailed for Norwegian Cruise Line since 2001. It looks forward from high on the ship over the curve of the bow, with the sea and sky filling most of the wide frame. NCL publishes the camera as a still image, with the ship’s name, the date and the time in small print at the top left. The scene changes with the voyage: open water and horizon at sea, then coastlines, harbors, terminals and other ships near land. After dark the frame is close to black, with only a thin line of lights and the outline of the bow to be made out.

About Norwegian Sun

Norwegian Sun was built by Lloyd Werft at Bremerhaven in Germany and launched on September 23, 2000. She was christened by Brooke Burke in Miami on November 17, 2001, in a dual ceremony with Norwegian Star. She is the third and final ship of her design, after Costa Victoria in 1996 and Norwegian Sky in 1999, and NCL treats her and Norwegian Sky as the Sun class.

She measures 78,309 GT and 258 meters (848 feet), with 14 decks, 1,976 passengers at double occupancy, 2,400 at most, and a crew of 906. She is registered at Nassau and flies the flag of the Bahamas. Her regions have included the Caribbean, Alaska from Seattle and Vancouver, and the west coast of South America.

Norwegian Sun Details

Cruise line	Norwegian Cruise Line
Ship class	Sun
Shipbuilder	Lloyd Werft, Bremerhaven, Germany
Christened	November 17, 2001
Gross tonnage	78,309 GT
Length	258 m (848 ft)
Beam	32.3 m (106 ft)
Passenger capacity	1,976 at double occupancy, 2,400 maximum
Crew	906
IMO number	9218131

What Can You See on the Norwegian Sun Webcam?

On the Norwegian Sun Webcam, the bow sweeps in as a broad arc across the lower part of the frame, with railings along its edge. In daylight the deck inside that arc shows pale blue, with four bronze spare propeller blades secured on it in two pairs, and a metal railing just in front of the camera crosses the bottom of the picture. Everything above it belongs to the view ahead, which is water and sky for most of a voyage, with the horizon marking the line between them. Near land it can take in long stretches of coast, harbor entrances, terminal buildings and other ships, and on her Alaska seasons the same view has looked out on glacier country. At night the camera struggles to see beyond the ship, and reflections and a thin line of lights are all that remain until the sun returns.

Havana, a Growler and a Charter to India

In 2018 Norwegian Sun worked cruises from Port Canaveral and Miami to Havana, along with Key West, the Bahamas and Great Stirrup Cay. That ended in June 2019, after a U.S. travel ban stopped American cruise ships from visiting Cuba, and with it went the ship’s open bar arrangement. On June 25, 2022, near Hubbard Glacier in Alaska, she struck a small iceberg known as a growler. The Coast Guard inspected the ship at Juneau, and she spent over two weeks out of service for repairs.

Her time with NCL has an end date. On April 7, 2025, it was announced that Norwegian Sun and her sister Norwegian Sky would go on long-term charter to Cordelia Cruises of India, with Norwegian Sun leaving the fleet in 2027. Norwegian Sky made her last NCL voyage in 2026.

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Source: Norwegian Cruise Line