Semester at Seas World Odyssey at Berth 38/39 Southampton on 9th September 2015.On 19 May 2015 the MS Deutschland was sold to the Absolute Nevada company based in the United States, which purchased the ship for approximately $21 million.Initially the ship was planned to serve as a floating university for the American organization Semester at Sea and in the process was reflagged to Nassau in the Bahamas. It was proposed that the ship would be renamed World Odyssey following a refit at a northern European shipyard.n 31 May 2015, Plantours announced that they would be chartering the ship for four sailings between 9 June 2015 and 29 July 2015 whilst its usual ship MS Hamburg was repaired. The crew of MS Hamburg travelled to Gibraltar to prepare the ship, before guests embarked on 9 June 2015 in Kiel. It was on this occasion that MS Deutschland began sailing under the Bahamas flag.