The ceremony featured performances by the acrobats Lukas Irmler and 'Les Oiseaux du paradis' (The Birds of Paradise). Fireworks capped the festivities, which were streamed live onto LED screens set up along the Travemünde beach.
Some 1,800 passengers and 300 invited guests attended the event on board, including Richard Fain, chairman and ceo of Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd.
Mein Schiff 5 had arrived in Travemünde at 9 p.m. after a short cruise from Kiel. The ship remained offshore for the ceremony and returned to Kiel Saturday morning.
On the occasion of the naming TUI Cruises released a 128-page book describing Mein Schiff 5's construction. Produced in cooperation with Hamburg-based mare publishing, the book is being sold on board and through TUI Cruises' webshop.
On Saturday, Mein Schiff 5 departed Kiel for its maiden voyage to Tallinn, St Petersburg, Helsinki and Stockholm. The ship will return to Kiel on July 24.
Mein Schiff 5 will operate various itineraries in the Baltic, to Norway and Western Europe for the rest of the summer, before crossing the Atlantic bound for the Caribbean.
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