The ship will be named ' Magellan ' and is said to be the ex ' Grand Holiday ' which was sailing on the spanish market .

From the picture on the CMV website she looks like the ex P & O Cruises ship ' Pacific Sun ' which recently has been sailing as the Chinese operated cruise ship ' Henna ' .

Having just spoken to a friend at the company I can confirm that it is in the charter contract that her funnel wings are to be removed as happened to her sister ship !
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[ 11-03-2014: Message edited by: Neil - Ex P. & O. S. N. Company. ]

Who is the company CMV charter MV Magellan from? Carnival Corp. or will she be transfeer to another company who agein charter her to CMV?

[ 11-04-2014: Message edited by: Galaxy ]

Its a shame, because without the wings, the ship looks unfinished.

Looking at a promo brochure for Ibero, CMV have photoshopped a picture of the Grand Celebration...

The above is a bit misleading as asides from the stern sponson, HOLIDAY's lifeboats are of the old open style apart from 2 fwd tenders. Unless they are going to renew them of course - in the same style as JUBILEE.

Expect the brochure picture published was altered so they had a picture to publish of what the ship should look like after the funnel wings are removed.

Holiday (which is the ship in Question), launched in 1985 for Carnival, and the second ship to have a gull-wing funnel. As Neil has stated, this is the ship which is to be transferred to CMV. The fact around the funnel wing removal is undisputed.

This was followed up by a slightly modified and larger sister, Jubilee in 1986. This is now sailing as Henna after sailing for P&O Australia as Pacific Sun.

Lastly, Celebration was launched in 1987 and is an identical sister to Jubilee. This ship is in the transformation from Grand Celebration to Costa Celebration around about now.

The point I (and Pam) were making is that the photo shopped image is of the Grand Celebration and not of Grand Holiday. You can tell (as Pam says) by the lifeboats and the sponsons.

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Originally posted by P&OOfficer:
Lastly, Celebration was launched in 1987 and is an identical sister to Jubilee. This ship is in the transformation from Grand Celebration to Costa Celebration around about now.

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It now appears not. With 3 days to go before before COSTA CELEBRATION's first cruise [22 Nov] she has been

pulled. The passengers are not happy.

[ 11-20-2014: Message edited by: Galaxy ]

This not the first time that cruises have been cancelled !

Some of these companies could not care less about upsetting people booked with them who may only have certain times they can take a cruise.

Best,

My pure guess is that there was too much spare capacity over the Costa fleet as a whole, so they shoved everyone on to other ships and she will sit in Genoa for a while. 99.9% wrong

this is an interesting interview with "Bahamas Celebration's" owners dated November 20th 2014.

For several days, the info tab of "Costa Celebration's" webcam (http://www.costacruise.com/usa/webcam.html) showed a proposed itinerary that had her departing Genoa November 24th, reaching Freeport, Bahamas, (!) approx. ten days later with a bunkering stop in Santa Cruz de Tenerife enroute. That itinerary was removed yesterday.

Maybe the deal has fallen through, but no doubt Celebration Cruise Line was at least about to acquire "Costa Celebration".

Best,

I too doubt the rumor as a replacement for Bahamas Celebration because I would thin the ro-ro container business was important to them.

It seems that despite the original renderings suggesting their removal - she will retain the gul-wings on the funnel.

The renderings (still of the wrong ship have been updated on their website)

Looking better than the original render: