MS Holiday
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2021}}
{{Short description|Cruise ship built in 1985}}
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{{Infobox ship image | Ship image = FEMA - 18043 - Photograph by Mark Wolfe taken on 10-29-2005 in Mississippi.jpg | Ship image size = 301px | Ship caption = Holiday in Mississippi on October 29, 2005 }} {{Infobox ship career | Hide header = | Ship flag = | Ship name = *1985–2009: Holiday
| Ship owner = *1985–2015: Carnival Corporation & plc
| Ship operator = *1985–2009: Carnival Cruise Lines
| Ship registry = *1985–2009: Nassau, {{flag|Bahamas|civil}}
| Ship route = | Ship ordered = | Ship builder = Aalborg Værft, Ålborg, Denmark | Ship original cost = | Ship yard number = | Ship way number = | Ship laid down = | Ship launched = 10 December 1983 | Ship completed = 21 June 1985 | Ship christened = | Ship acquired = | Ship maiden voyage = *13 July 1985 | Ship in service = 1985–2020 | Ship out of service = Spring 2020 | Ship identification = *Call sign CQNH
| Ship fate = Scrapped at Alang, India in 2021 | Ship notes = }} {{Infobox ship characteristics | Hide header = | Header caption = | Ship class = {{sclass|Holiday|cruise ship}} | Ship tonnage = {{GT|46,052}} | Ship displacement = | Ship length = {{convert|728|ft|m|abbr=on}} | Ship beam = {{convert|105.6|ft|m|abbr=on}} | Ship height = | Ship draught = | Ship draft = | Ship depth = | Ship decks = 10 | Ship deck clearance = | Ship ramps = | Ship ice class = | Ship sail plan = | Ship power = | Ship propulsion = | Ship speed = {{convert|21|kn}} | Ship capacity = 1,452 passengers | Ship crew = 660 | Ship notes = }} |
MS Holiday (also known as Grand Holiday and Magellan) was a {{sclass|Holiday|cruise ship}}, which was formerly owned by Carnival Cruise Line as the Holiday and Ibero Cruises as the Grand Holiday. She last sailed for Cruise & Maritime Voyages from Spring 2015 to 2020 as the Magellan until Cruise & Maritime Voyages ceased operations due to the COVID-19 pandemic. She was then sold at auction and was scrapped at Alang, India in early 2021.
Ship history
=Service as ''Holiday'' and ''Grand Holiday''=
MS Holiday was built by Aalborg Værft in Aalborg, Denmark and entered service for Carnival Cruise Lines on 13 July 1985. The ship was the first out of the three Holiday-class ships built for the line. The ship's condition had been in decline, until 2003 when she was sent into dry dock 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.{{cite web |url= https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna9188316 |title=Cruise ships chartered for refugees|publisher=NBC News |date= 3 September 2005|access-date=28 August 2011}} After leaving Mississippi, she again went to dry dock for an additional three weeks of renovations. New carpeting and plumbing were added and repairs to the propellers were made, amongst other improvements.
Holiday resumed her normal route in the Western Caribbean, sailing from Mobile, Alabama until November 2009 when Holiday was retired from the Carnival fleet. She was later transferred to the fleet of Iberocruceros,{{cite web|url=http://www.allbusiness.com/manufacturing/transportation-equipment-mfg-ship/12180902-1.html|title=Carnival Holiday leaving the fleet}} another cruise line owned by Carnival Corporation & plc as MS Grand Holiday. The distinctive Carnival-style funnel was kept and repainted. In April 2010, she underwent dry dock refurbishment and was then transferred to the Ibero Cruises fleet. Sailing as Grand Holiday began on 18 May 2010{{cite web|url=http://www.iberocruceros.com/destinos/mediterr%C3%A1neo.aspx|title=Vacaciones a bordo de Costa Cruceros|work=iberocruceros.com|access-date=26 April 2016}}
The ship was transformed into a four-star floating hotel in Port Sochi Imeretinskiy during the Winter Olympics from 5 to 24 February 2014.
However, in the same year Ibero Cruises was absorbed into Costa Cruises. Costa had little interest in keeping the Grand Holiday in service, and she was laid up before being sold off.
=Service as ''Magellan''=
On 3 November 2014, British cruise line Cruise & Maritime Voyages announced that Grand Holiday would be joining their fleet in Spring 2015 under the name Magellan.{{cite news |author=Jordan Bailey |url=http://cruisecapital.net/9/post/2014/11/cmv-announces-new-flagship-to-join-fleet.html |title=CMV Announces New Flagship To Join Fleet |website=Cruise Capital |date=3 November 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141110210303/http://www.cruisecapital.net/news/cmv-announces-new-flagship-to-join-fleet |archive-date=10 November 2014 }} She began cruising out of London Tilbury, Newcastle upon Tyne and Dundee commencing 15 March 2015 and also Hamburg on 12 July 2015.{{cite web|url=http://www.cruiseandmaritime.com/cruise/g500/solar-eclipse-maiden-cruise|title=Home Page - Cruise and Maritime Voyages|work=Cruise and Maritime Voyages|access-date=26 April 2016}}{{cite web|url=http://www.hamburg.de/kreuzfahrtschiffe/4492734/magellan/|title=Magellan|work=hamburg.de|access-date=26 April 2016}} In 2018 she underwent dry dock with Damen Shiprepair in Amsterdam. In 2019, she began cruising out of Liverpool Cruise Terminal.
=Disposal as ''Mages''=
On 20 July 2020 South Quay Travel Limited, which traded under the name 'Cruise & Maritime Voyages', was placed into administration.{{cite news |url=https://cruise-adviser.com/cruise-maritime-goes-administration/ |title=Cruise & Maritime Voyages goes into administration |website=Cruise Adviser |date=3 August 2020 |access-date=2 March 2021}} On 19 October 2020, CW Kellock & Co. London auctioned Magellan. The Greek company Seajets won the auction, with the declared intention of converting her into a floating hotel at Liverpool for the 2021 Grand National. However, citing high operating costs, they instead resold her for scrap.{{cite news |author1=Kate West |author2=Margot Gibbs |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-56196069 |title=UK cruise ships scrapped in India's 'ship graveyard' |publisher=BBC News |date=2 March 2021 |accessdate=2 March 2021 }} She was renamed Mages and sailed to Alang, India, for scrapping with anchorage at Bhavnagar on 23 January 2021; the ship was moved in front of Alang on 28 January waiting for high tide and was finally beached in the early morning of 30 January 2021.{{citation needed|date=April 2023}} Scrapping started on 21 June 2021.{{citation needed|date=April 2023}}
Gallery
File:MS Holiday Carnival Cruise Ship (4167362850).jpg|Holiday
File:Carnival Holiday docked in Cozumel 03-2004.jpg|Holiday doocked in Cozumel, March 2004
File:FEMA - 18046 - Photograph by Mark Wolfe taken on 10-29-2005 in Mississippi.jpg|Holiday in Mississippi, October 29, 2010
File:MS Holiday 2008.jpg|Holiday at the port of Yucatán, Mexico
File:Grand Holiday - Marseille.JPG|Grand Holiday docked in Marseille
File:14-01-24-перейти в Пальма-де-Майорка-RalfR-DSCN1209-135 (Grand Holiday).jpg|Grand Holiday docked in Palma, Majorca, Spain. NCL's cruise ship Norwegian Jade can be seen in the background.
File:CMV Magellan Anchored in Flåm 20150617 1.jpg|Magellan anchored in Flåm
File:NO-bergen-magellan.jpg|Magellan
File:Stavanger, Norway 20170522 164032.jpg|Magelan in Stavanger, Norway on May 22 .2017
References
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{{Ibero Cruises}}
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