Share to Facebook Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin When you’ve got a winning formula, stick with it. Even before Silversea launched their first new Nova Class vessel last year with the handsome Silver Nova , the luxury cruise line knew that its Silver Ray sister ship would be an equally instant followup hit. The launch of the Silver Ray , whose naming ceremony took place last month in Lisbon, also happened to mark the line’s 30th anniversary.
And now, as the twelfth ship in the fleet, the Silver Ray is rapidly gaining fans as it cruises the Mediterranean and Greek Isles before it sails to the Americas at the end of the year. Launched mid-June, the Silver Ray is the second vessel in Silversea's Nova Class. Credit: Silversea Cruises Earlier this year, Silversea’s Royal Caribbean Group parent company also launched its Icon of the Seas to great fanfare.
At 250,000 gross registered tonnage that largest vessel on the seas carries five times the weight of the Silver Ray . But as the Silver Ray team is quick to point out, the level of complexity in these new generation vessels is the same, with the number of working components adding up to some 50 million in each. The second vessel after the Nova to be built in the Meyer Werft shipyard on the northern German Ems River, the Ray also features hybrid power sources, including liquified natural gas (LNG).
And developments such as using compost to produce heat are particularly attractive to a new generation of passengers. Ship cost.