National Geographic Resolution is an expedition ship with an ice-strengthened hull owned and operated by Lindblad Expeditions. The vessel has an ice-strengthened X-bow hull. She is the second vessel of the Endurance class, following National Geographic Endurance (2020).
Design and construction
The vessel was ordered on February 28, 2019. The hull was constructed at the CRIST shipyard in Gdynia, Poland and later transferred to Ulstein Verft in Ulsteinvik, Norway, for outfitting and completion. She was laid down on September 18, 2019, and the hull was launched on October 16, 2020, and moved to Ulstein Verft. After further construction the complete vessel was launched again on June 9, 2021. The ship was delivered to Lindblad on September 30, 2021.
National Geographic Resolution was christened on November 24, 2021, on an ice sheet in Antarctica's Weddell Sea by Captain Heidi Norling, one of the vessel's captains and Lindblad's first international fleet female captain.[10][11]