Carnival Splendor
Carnival Splendor in Vancouver Harbor
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The Carnival Splendor is among Panamanian propelled Flag Post-Panamax - cruise ship of the American shipping company Carnival Cruise Line , which was put into service on July 2 of 2008. She is measured with 113,323 GT and was the largest ship of the shipping company at the time of commissioning. In the meantime, she has been replaced in this regard by the ships of the Dream class .
The ship became known in particular through the accident off the Mexican Pacific coast in November 2010.
history
Construction and commissioning
On September 23, 2004, the Carnival Corporation & plc and the Italian shipyard Fincantieri signed a contract for a total of five cruise ships, which also included the construction of the Carnival Splendor . Due to the special features of the Splendor class , the Carnival Splendor with hull number 6135 was built at the Fincantieri shipyard in Sestri Ponente near Genoa ; the keel was laid on June 1, 2006. The production of the individual construction sections took place at different shipyard locations; among other things, the chimney was built in Trieste . On August 3, 2007, the construction dock was flooded and the ship could be transferred to the equipment quay for completion. The handover to the owner took place on the agreed date on June 30, 2008 in Genoa. On July 2, 2008, the Carnival Splendor left the shipyard and was transferred to Dover , where it was christened on July 10, 2008 by the musician Myleene Klass .
commitment
After the christening ceremony , the Carnival Splendor set out on a short cruise from Dover to Amsterdam . This was followed by a 13-day Baltic Sea cruise as a maiden voyage. She was in the Mediterranean until autumn 2008 . The transfer to the home port of Port Canaveral ( Fort Lauderdale ) began on November 3, 2008. In January 2009, the Carnival Splendor was relocated to Long Beach , in order to carry out cruises on the Mexican Riviera from there. Since the ship could not pass the Panama Canal at the time, it had to circumnavigate South America as part of a 49-day cruise . The Carnival Splendor was the shipping company's first ship to make this voyage. The Carnival Splendor is now operating in American waters.
Average
On the way from Long Beach to Puerto Vallarta (Mexico) a fire broke out on November 8, 2010 at around 6:00 a.m. local time ( Pacific Standard Time ) on diesel generator no. 5 in the rear of the two engine rooms of the Carnival Splendor . At that time, the ship was about 300 kilometers southwest of San Diego and 70 kilometers off the coast. After about three hours the fire could be extinguished, but the Carnival Splendor was unable to maneuver. Parts of the power supply and the on-board equipment could be kept functioning via the emergency power generators . Several ships came to the aid of the damaged vessel , including the aircraft carrier Ronald Reagan , which provided the 3,299 passengers and 1,167 crew members with food. After two days in tow, the ship arrived in San Diego on November 12, 2010. Gerry Cahill, CEO of Carnival Cruise Line, described the accident as the "worst disaster in 35 years of company history". The shipping company named a break in the crankcase on the generator's drive motor as the cause of the fire . The first plans provided that the Carnival Splendor should be brought back into service in mid-January 2011; During the repair work, however, it became apparent that the damage was more extensive and other problems had to be fixed. On December 21, 2010, the American Coast Guard issued two so-called “Marine Safety Alerts”, from which it emerged that the Carnival Splendor's CO 2 extinguishing system had failed at the time of the fire in the engine room. On January 19, 2011, the ship left the port of San Diego under its own power to complete the repair work at the Pier 70 shipyard in San Francisco. The work to replace the damaged main generator set and two auxiliary generators lasted from January 31 to February 12, 2011. The 106-ton main generator set originally intended for Carnival Magic, which was then under construction , was fitted with a Transport plane flown in from Italy. The damage caused by compensating passengers and canceling cruises was given at around 65 million US dollars. On February 20, 2011, the Carnival Splendor resumed scheduled cruise traffic.
See also
literature
- Douglas Ward: Complete Guide to Cruising & Cruise Ships 2009 . Berlitz Publishing, 2009, ISBN 978-3-493-60255-5 .
Web links
- Our ships website of the shipping company Carnival Cruise Line, accessed on April 28, 2019
Footnotes
- ↑ Ship data on equasis.org , accessed on November 12, 2010
- ^ Fincantieri signs a five ship, 2.6 billion dollar agreement with Carnival Group , accessed November 12, 2010
- ↑ Cruise Industry News: Carnival Cruise Lines Takes Delivery of New 113,300-Ton Carnival Splendor , accessed November 15, 2010
- ↑ Fact Sheet: Carnival Splendor , accessed November 12, 2010
- ^ Reports on the “Carnival Splendor” accident , accessed on November 12, 2010
- ↑ Report on dailymail.co.uk : "Carnival Splendor passengers speak about cruise liner 'nightmare'" , accessed on November 12, 2010
- ↑ Reports on "Carnival Cruise Line News"
- ↑ Carnival Splendor will be canceled until mid-February ( Memento of the original from December 19, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed December 17, 2010
- ↑ Repairs to the Carnival Splendor completed ( memento of the original from April 25, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed April 17, 2011
- ↑ Carnival Splendor returns - Travel Weekly , accessed April 17, 2011
- ↑ Press release of February 18, 2011 , accessed on February 21, 2011
