PACIFIC SUN cruise vessel

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PACIFIC SUN cruise vessel

Post by aukepalmhof » Fri May 21, 2010 9:00 pm

Built as a cruise vessel under yard No 596 by Kockums Varv Ab., Malmo, Sweden for the Carnival Cruise Lines Monrovia.
26 October 1985 launched as the JUBILEE.
Tonnage 47,262 grt, 6,065 dwt., dim. 224.82 x 28.01 x 7.50m. (draught).
Powered by two 7-cyl. Sulzer diesel engines, 23,500 kW, twin shafts, speed 21.7 knots.
Accommodation for 1800 passengers, crew 670.
01 June 1986 delivered to owners, building cost US$134 million.

06 July 1986 made her first cruise from Miami.
1996 Under Panama flag and registry.
2000 Under Bahamas flag and registry with homeport Nassau.
September 2004 transferred to P & O Cruises, renamed in PACIFIC SUN.
September 2004 refitted and modernized in Freeport, Bahamas.
November 2004 after her refit she arrived in Sydney and began year round cruises from Sydney to the South Pacific Islands on 27 October 2004.
01 August 2008 she hit severe weather off the coast of New Zealand in which she got some internal damage, and 40 passengers were wounded of which 3 were taken to hospital when she arrived in Auckland.

26 March 2010 she visited Norfolk Island, the first cruise vessel after 78 years the island was not visited by a cruise vessel.
It was also the day the Norfolk Island Philatelic Bureau issued this stamps.

2010 in Service, IMO No 8314122, owned by Carnival PLC, London, managed by P&O Cruises Australia.

July 2012 P&O announced that the PACIFIC SUN will leave the fleet.
13 September 2012 sold to HNA Cruises and renamed in HENNA. Homeport Tianjin, China.
November 2015 HNA shut down her cruise ship operations due to losing money on the ship.
Laid up and for sale.
June 2016 sold for scrap, renamed HEN.
10 April 2017 seen in the Singapore Straits heading for Bhavnagar, India for demolition. ETA 23 April 2017.

Norfolk Island 2010 $1.45 sg?, scott?

Source: http://www.equasis.org http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Sun_(ship) http://www.faktaomfartyg.se/jubilee_1986.htm
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