Completed 1985 Builder Denmark | Length 222 m | |
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Name 1985–2009 Holiday
2010–2014 Grand Holiday
2015 onwards Magellan Owner 1985–2015 Carnival Corporation & plc
2015 Global Maritime Group Operator 1985–2009 Carnival Cruise Lines
2010–2014 Iberocruceros
2015 onwards Cruise & Maritime Voyages Port of registry 1985–2009 Nassau, Bahamas
2009–2015 Madeira, Portugal
2015 onwards Nassau, Bahamas Maiden voyage 13 July 1985 (as Holiday)
18 May 2010 (as Grand Holiday)
11 March 2015 (as Magellan) | ||
Ms magellan cruise ship in belfast docks
MS Magellan is a Holiday-class cruise ship which was formerly owned by Carnival Cruise Line as Holiday and Ibero Cruises as the Grand Holiday. She sailed for Cruise & Maritime Voyages In Spring 2015.
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- Ms magellan cruise ship in belfast docks
- Strange funnelled smoky ms magellan cruise ship leaves belfast
- Ship history
- References
Strange funnelled smoky ms magellan cruise ship leaves belfast
Ship history
MS Holiday was built by Aalborg Værft in Aalborg, Denmark and entered service for Carnival Cruise Lines on July 13, 1985. The ship's condition had been in decline until 2003, when she was sent into the dry docks and renovated. In 2005, during Hurricane Katrina, she was taken out of service to be used as temporary housing for the victims of the storm, and to also be used to aid the victims of the storm. After leaving Mississippi, she again went to the dry docks for an additional three weeks of renovations. New carpeting and plumbing were added and repairs to the propellers were made, among other improvements.
MS Holiday resumed her normal route in the Western Caribbean, sailing from Mobile, Alabama until November 2009 when MS Holiday was retired from the Carnival fleet and was later transferred to the fleet of Iberocruceros, another cruise line owned by Carnival Corporation & plc as MS Grand Holiday. However, the Carnival-style funnel was only repainted. In April 2010 she underwent dry dock refurbishment and was then transferred to the Ibero Cruises fleet. Sailing as MS Grand Holiday began on May 18, 2010
The ship was transformed into a four-star floating hotel in Port Sochi Imeretinskiy during the Winter Olympics from 5 to 24 February 2014.
On 3 November 2014 British cruise line Cruise & Maritime Voyages announced that MS Grand Holiday would be joining their fleet in Spring 2015 under the name Magellan. She began cruising out of London Tilbury, Newcastle upon Tyne and Dundee commencing 15 March 2015 and also Hamburg on 12 July 2015.