Norwegian Jewel is a cruise ship operated by Norwegian Cruise Line (NCL). She is the lead vessel of NCL's Jewel-class cruise ships and entered service in 2005. The vessel sails primarily in the western Pacific Ocean.
Norwegian Jewel approaching Icy Strait Point, 2022
Norwegian Jewel under construction at Meyer Werft's shipyard in 2004
Norwegian Cruise Line (NCL), also known in short as Norwegian, is an American cruise line founded in Norway in 1966, incorporated in Bermuda and headquartered in Miami. It is the fourth-largest cruise line in the world by passengers, controlling about 8.6% of the total worldwide share of the cruise market by passengers as of 2021. It is wholly owned by parent company Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings.
Headquarters in Miami-Dade County, Florida
Norwegian Caribbean Line's first ship Sunward
Starward and sister Skyward were the first purpose-built ships for NCL
SS Norway arriving at Southampton