Norwegian Escape is a Breakaway-Plus Class cruise ship for Norwegian Cruise Line, in service since October 2015. It was built by Meyer Werft in Papenburg, Germany in just 17 months.

Design and description

Norwegian Escape is a Breakaway Plus-class cruise ship, which also includes Norwegian Joy and Norwegian Bliss, built by Meyer Werft in Papenburg, Germany, for Norwegian Cruise Line. The vessel entered service in October 2015.

The name of the ship was selected in a contest on USA Today. In 2014, Guy Harvey was chosen to paint the hull art.

The first section was launched on 5 December 2014. A second section was launched 21 February 2015. Norwegian Escape was floated out of Meyer Werft's building hall on 15 August 2015, with sea trials beginning on 16 September. She was officially delivered to Norwegian Cruise Lines on 22 October.

Areas of operation

On completion the ship undertook a series of short preview sailings from Hamburg, Germany and Southampton, UK. The 164,600 GT ship departed Southampton on 29 October 2015 on her transatlantic crossing to Miami, where the ship was based cruising to the Caribbean. It is intended that she will cruise from New York for the summer/fall of 2019, and return to Miami for winter 2019/2020. Escape will spend the summer of 2020 in Copenhagen, Denmark then return to Port Canaveral, Florida for the winter 2020/2021.