
Technical Specifications
Overview
MV Reef Endeavour was built at the Government Shipyard, Suva, Fiji being launched on 2 November 1994. It entered service in June 1995 operating out of Cairns to the Great Barrier Reef. Built for a joint venture between Captain Cook Cruises and Qantas, she was later purchased from the joint venture by Captain Cook Cruises and transferred to Fiji. She is today one of many ships that operate around the Fiji Islands exploring the Mamanuca and Yasawa Islands every week and Vanua Levu once a month. What makes the Reef Endeavour exceptional, is her small size allows her to reach remote reefs, islands and shallow bays, where bigger ships cannot proceed. Her design allows for big ship qualities, whilst maintaining a small ship feel. These features include a pool, spa, and an embarkation platform allowing access and storage for smaller boats. A 2016 refurbishment and dry dock reduced the number of cabins and passengers slightly by interconnecting some to create suites as well as allowing for major technical and cosmetic work. In November 2023 it was retired.
Composite Risk
Multiple adverse factors, or a hard ship-specific signal, lift this hull above the fleet norm.
A coverage-weighted blend of the single component we could read for this hull; the weights renormalise over only the components present, so a thin read is never inflated and a hull is never credited a “safe 0” for a signal it has no row for. This headline is flagged low-confidence (a thin or structural-only read) and should not be treated as a verdict. Higher means riskier. Derived in-house from government-open port-State-control, flag, sanctions and our own vessel data; weight it by the coverage above.
Commercial
Price it in the Route Planner between any two commercial ports: ballast and laden legs, two fuels at live bunker prices, port and canal costs, the weather on the way, and the TCE set against the market.

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