Ruby Princess Webcam – Bridge Cam on the Last Crown Ship

The Ruby Princess Webcam shows the bridge camera of Ruby Princess, the third and last Crown Class ship Princess Cruises took delivery of, in 2008. The cruise line posts a satellite image from the bridge every five minutes, so the page holds a still that changes on its own through the day rather than a video stream. A box in the top left corner names the ship and gives the time in UTC and in local time, the temperature is shown in the top right, and a caption across the bottom says whether she is in port or which port she is bound for. The frame looks out ahead of the ship, so it can show an empty sea under a low sun, a line of cliffs, or a city skyline beyond the pier.

About Ruby Princess

Ruby Princess was built by Fincantieri at its Monfalcone and Trieste yards in Italy, launched on February 1, 2008 and delivered at Monfalcone on October 23, 2008. She then sailed to her first home port, Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale, arriving on November 4, and two days later she was christened by The Bachelorette star Trista Sutter and her husband, Ryan. Her maiden voyage on November 8, 2008 was a western Caribbean cruise, and she closed her first season with a series of Mediterranean voyages in the summer of 2009.

She was the ninth and final Grand Class ship to join Princess, and at 113,561 GT she and her two Crown Class sisters were the largest ships in the fleet by tonnage until Royal Princess arrived in 2013. Her later career has included cruises around New Zealand from Sydney, voyages to Mexico, the Panama Canal and Hawaii, and Alaska sailings from San Francisco. She is registered in Hamilton, Bermuda.

Ruby Princess Details

What Can You See on the Ruby Princess Webcam?

Because it faces forward from the bridge, the Ruby Princess Webcam shows the ship’s way ahead rather than her decks. On a day at sea that means a long horizon, the water shifting from gray to blue as cloud moves through, and now and then another ship on the skyline. Near the coast, islands and headlands grow across the frame, and alongside a pier the camera can look over the harbor to cranes, terminals and the town. After dark the picture is mostly black. 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 Last Ship of the Grand Class Line

Ruby Princess completed a family of nine Princess ships built on the Grand Class design, which began with Grand Princess in 1998. As on her Crown Class sisters Crown Princess and Emerald Princess, the nightclub sits just aft of the funnel rather than suspended over the stern as on the original Grand Class ships, and the class carries two more passenger decks than the first design along with a poolside theater.

The ship is also tied to one of the early chapters of the pandemic in Australia. After a New Zealand cruise was cut short, she returned to Sydney on March 19, 2020 and 2,700 passengers disembarked; the ship became the source of more than 10 percent of Australia’s early COVID-19 cases. A New South Wales special commission of inquiry, led by barrister Bret Walker, put the eventual death toll at no fewer than 28, and its report was published on August 14, 2020.

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Source: Princess Cruises