![]() Many names and a few cruise lines later, the ship was laid up and ultimately sold for scrap in 2003. She was in service for a total of 42 years. She sailed under the Carnival flag until 1993, and was then sold to Epirotiki. Mardi Gras was sold to Carnival from Canadian Pacific in 1972, and was just over 18,000 gross registered tons. Read More: Former Carnival Cruise Ship Getting Scrapped 10. The ship was sold and scrapped at the yard in Alang, India in 2017. ![]() She sailed for them until November 2015, when HNA shut down operations after three years of losing money. In 2012, Pacific Sun left P&O and was sold to HNA Cruises, who named her Henna. ![]() In 2004, she was transferred to P&O Cruises Australia and renamed Pacific Sun. Jubilee was built in Sweden in 1986 for Carnival Cruise Line, and Celebration and Holiday were her near-sister ships. Jubilee Jubilee as Pacific Sun for P&O Cruises (Photo courtesy of Wikipedia Creative Commons) Last Look: Remembering Carnival Inspiration ĩ. After the cruise industry shutdown in March 2020, Carnival announced in July that the ship, along with Carnival Fantasy, had been so sold for scrap and were sent to the shipbreakers in Aliaga, Turkey. The ship sailed Mexican Riviera cruises from Long Beach, California. Renamed Carnival Inspiration in 2007, the ship was most recently refurbished in 2010. Last Look: Remembering Carnival Imagination īuilt in 1996 at the Kvaerner Masa-Yards in Helsinki, Finland, Inspiration was the fifth entry in the Fantasy-class. The vessel entered long-term layup status in July 2020 Carnival announced the ship has been sold for scrap in August 2020, and the ship was sent to the scrapyard in Aliaga, Turkey. The ship was renamed Carnival Imagination in 2007 and was refurbished most recently in 2016. The ship entered service in 1995, and most-recently sailed Mexican Riviera itineraries from Long Beach, California. Like her Fantasy-class sisters, Imagination was built at Kavaerner Masa-Yards in Helsinki, Finland. Carnival Imagination (Photo courtesy of Carnival Cruise Line) In 2014, she was sold to the British cruise line Cruise & Maritime Voyages and sailed for them under the name Magellan.Īfter CMV ceased operations and filed for bankruptcy in July 2020, Greek ferry operator SeaJets purchased Magellan at auction in October 2020 for $3.4 million. and renamed Grand Holiday.Īfter that, she was transferred to the Ibero Cruises fleet, and was transformed into a floating hotel for the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics. She sailed from Alabama to the western Caribbean until 2009, when she was transferred to the fleet of Iberocruceros, another cruise line owned by Carnival Corp. In 2003, she was refurbished, and in 2005 during Hurricane Katrina, she was used as temporary housing for victims of the storm. Constructed in Denmark, Holiday entered service in 1985. Holiday was Carnival’s second purpose-built cruise ship. When Premier went bankrupt in 2000, the ship was seized, and Big Red Boat III was ultimately scrapped in 2003. She was originally a mail service ocean liner, but when Carnival bought her, they refit her into a cruise ship in Japan for $30 million.Ī few cruise lines later, she ended up with Premier Cruise Line sailing under the name Big Red Boat III. Festivale photo: WikipediaĬarnival acquired Festivale in 1977 from the South African Marine Corporation. Of the four Fantasy-class ships sold by Carnival in 2020, she is the only vessel not to meet an ultimate fate at the scrapyard. In November, she underwent a name change from Carnival Fascination to Century Harmony. In July 2020, Fascination entered long-term layup status and was sold to a disclosed buyer, later revealed to be an Asian company, for use as a floating hotel.
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