Lisa Plotnick

Boston welcomes a trio of niche cruise ships

A small dark hulled passenger ship approaches the cruise port aft end first. Two passenger ships are already berthed, another small dark hulled ship and, in the distance, a larger all white cruise ship.
Hurtigruten Expeditions ship ms Fram starts to back into her berth between fleet mate ms Roald Amundsen and Regent Seven Seas Cruises’s Seven Seas Mariner in Boston, Massachusetts, September 19, 2023. (c) Lisa Plotnick and NauticalNotebook.com

It was busy at Flynn Cruiseport Boston today as two Hurtigruten Expeditions ships, ms Roald Amundsen and ms Fram, and the Seven Seas Mariner of the luxury line Regent Seven Seas Cruises were in town.

Here’s a little bit about each.

  • ms Roald Amundsen, built 2019 in Norway, is a 530-passenger hybrid-powered ship, 459 feet long, 20,889 tons. She’s currently on a “Pole-to-Pole Adventure” from Vancouver to Buenos Aires via the Northwest Passage, Panama Canal and Antarctica. After Boston, her next stop is Miami on September 24.
  • ms Fram, built 2007 in Italy and refurbished in 2022, can carry 250 passengers and is 374 feet long and 11,647 tons. She is also sailing between the North Pole and South Pole, but from Nunavut to southern Chile. She boarded passengers today for a 9-day leg, a transoceanic voyage to Panama.
  • Seven Seas Mariner was built in 2000 as the first cruise ship on which every cabin was a suite and had a balcony. She can accommodate 696 passengers and is 709 feet long and 48,075 tons. Her current cruise left New York on September 17 and will end September 28 in Montreal.

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