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freight transport

Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines

Headquarters: Ipswich
Founded: 1848
Employees: —

Official website

Photo: Rodhullandemu · CC BY-SA 4.0 · file

Ships in this registry

Counted from individual vessel records · Wikidata

Reported fleet size

—

No published figure available

Container capacity

—

Not a ranked container line

Gross tonnage on record

163,436

Summed over 4 ships reporting tonnage

In brief

What Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines is

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Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines is a UK-based, Norwegian-owned cruise shipping line with three cruise ships. The company is owned by Bonheur and is headquartered in Ipswich, Suffolk, in the United Kingdom. The company is part of the Fred. Olsen Group.

Quoted from Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Corporate profile

Identity and registration

Legal name: —
Industry: freight transport
Legal form: private company limited by shares
Country of registration: United Kingdom
Headquarters: Ipswich
Formed in: —
Founded: 1848
Dissolved: —
Employees: —
Head office coordinates: 52.0594, 1.1556

Ships on record here: 4
Vessel types operated: 1
Flag states used: 2
Average vessel age: 42.8 years
Oldest vessel on record: 1972
Newest vessel on record: 2000
Largest vessel by tonnage: 62,735
Average tonnage: 40,859
Market share: —
Parent company: Fred. Olsen & Co.
Alliance: —
Record source: wikidata
Last refreshed: 2026-09-05

Corporate structure

Ownership and holdings

Parent company

Fred. Olsen & Co.

Owned by

Fred. Olsen & Co.2 ships

Services and products

cruise ship

Fleet on record

What this company sails

Composition of the 4 vessels this registry attributes to Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines. Bars are true proportions of that set, not of the company's full fleet.

By vessel type

Cruise ship4

By flag state

The Bahamas3

Norway1

By shipbuilder

Wärtsilä2

Fincantieri1

Meyer Werft1

Delivery history

10-year fleet record

Ships delivered in each of the last 10 years, counted from the recorded build year of vessels attributed to this company, with the running total of its fleet on record. No deliveries fall inside this window — this company’s vessels on record were all built earlier.

Year	Gross tonnage added	Fleet on record
2017	—	4
2018	—	4
2019	—	4
2020	—	4
2021	—	4
2022	—	4
2023	—	4
2024	—	4
2025	—	4
2026	—	4

Vessel records

Ships on record

4 vessels

Ship	IMO	Type	Flag	Built	Gross tonnage	Deadweight	Length	Builder
MS Bolette	9188037	Cruise ship	The Bahamas	2000	62,735	7,327	237.8 m	Fincantieri
Balmoral	8506294	Cruise ship	The Bahamas	1988	43,537	5,186	186.0 m	Meyer Werft
Black Watch	7108930	Cruise ship	Norway	1972	28,613	5,656	205.5 m	Wärtsilä
MV Boudicca	7218395	Cruise ship	The Bahamas	1973	28,551	5,291	207.0 m	Wärtsilä

Ships in registry counts individual vessel records attributed to the company here. Reported fleet is the company’s published total. They measure different things and are shown separately on purpose.

In context

How Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines compares

Counts over companies and vessels actually held in this directory — not over the world fleet, which is larger. Nothing here is estimated.

With 4 vessels attributed to it here, Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines is the 213th largest of the 965 operators in this directory that hold at least one ship on record, against a median of 2 across that group. That is a count of individually identified hulls, not the company’s published fleet size — the two are different measurements and both are shown above where available.

United Kingdom is the country of registration for 97 commercial operators in this directory, among which Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines ranks 16th by ships on record. Between them those companies hold 260 vessels here. See every operator registered in United Kingdom.

Founded in 1848, Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines is 178 years old. This directory holds 23 operators founded within five years either side of that date, whose median fleet on record is 2 ships. The median founding year across all commercial operators here is 1966, and the oldest on record dates to 1514.