The boat has 7 decks, of which 5 are passenger-accessible and with cabins ( 53 total staterooms).
The crew of 45 includes 19 hotel staff (1 steward-barman, 1 hotel manager, 6 chefs, 11 stewards/cabin cleaners), 17 nautical crew, 7 expedition staff (6 guides-lecturers, 1 expedition leader) and 1 doctor. MV Plancius can accommodate up to 116 passengers in 53 staterooms. On November 14, 2009, Tydeman was renamed to "MV Plancius" - honouring the Dutch cartographer Petrus Plancius (1552–1622).
In 2008, the ship was refurbished at Reimerswaal shipyard in Hansweert. In January 2007, the Vlissingen (Holland)-based company Oceanwide Expeditions acquired the vessel for EUR 900,000. When decommissioned, HNLMS Tydeman was sold to the Nigerian Navy, but they didn't pay. HNLMS Tydeman was designed for worldwide deep-sea research, but in her last years of naval service, the tasks were limited to hydrographic surveying in Europe's Baltic Sea and North Sea. From 2003, this fleet was replaced by HNLMS Snellius and from 2004 - by HNLMS Luymes.Īs Tydeman, the ship was named after the hydrographer of Siboga Expedition (Dutch East Indies) Gustaaf Frederik Tydeman (1899–1900) and was the second ship to bear this name. At the time, the smaller ships HNLMS Blommendal and HNLMS Buyskes, along with HNLMS Tydeman formed the so-called "white fleet" of the Navy's Hydrographic Service. Like all the other fleetmates, Plancius is equipped with rigid-hulled Zodiacs (motorized inflatable boats) used for landings (ship-to-shore passenger transportation) and coastal cruising in remote areas.ĭuring its Dutch Royal Navy service, approx 30% of the vessel's operational time was used by various non-military research organizations (universities and institutes). The vessel was converted from an oceanographic research vessel that served the Royal Netherlands Navy between November 10, 1976, and June 3, 2004. The vessel (IMO number 7432044) is currently Holland- flagged (MMSI 246573000) and registered in Rotterdam. The 1976-built MV Plancius cruise ship (formerly named "HNLMS Tydeman") is an ice-strengthened Arctic and Antarctica expedition part of the Oceanwide Expeditions fleet - together with Janssonius (2022), Hondius (2019), Ortelius (1989) and the polar sailing ships Noorderlicht (1991) and Rembrandt van Rijn (1994).
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