MS Jubilee
{{Short description|Scrapped cruise ship}}
{{About|Carnival Cruise Line's former cruise ship|the 2023 vessel|Carnival Jubilee}}
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MS Jubilee (also known as Pacific Sun and Henna) was a cruise ship that was originally built for Carnival Cruise Line. She was the second of three ships to be built for Carnival's {{sclass|Holiday|cruise ship|4}}. She was last owned by the Chinese company HNA Cruise Company, Limited, for service in the West Pacific region. The ship was retired and scrapped in 2017.
History
=Carnival Cruise Line=
Jubilee was built in 1986 by Kockums Varv, Malmö, Sweden, for Carnival Cruise Line, along with near-sister ship Celebration. The other near-sister ship of the class, Holiday, was built earlier by Aalborg Værft in Aalborg, Denmark.File:Cruise Ship Docks Key West.jpg|left]]For many years, Jubilee sailed from Los Angeles to the Mexican Riviera, including Ensenada, Puerto Vallarta, Cabo San Lucas and Mazatlan.Fodor's 1998 worldwide cruises and ports of callFodor's 1992 cruises and ports of call In 1989, she sailed from Vancouver to Alaska and Hawaii, and in later years, from Miami to the CaribbeanFodor's 1991 cruises and ports of call and Miami to San Diego via the Panama Canal.{{cite book |last1=Beckett |first1=Melvin Dean |title=My Life As I Remember It: The First 77 Years |date=2005 |publisher=Acacia Publishing |location=Phoenix}} Her final homeport was Jacksonville, Florida. The last passenger cruise with Carnival took place on August 26, 2004, to Nassau and Freeport, Bahamas.{{cite web |title=Itinerary (From June 5, 2004 Archive.) |url=http://carnival.com:80/Itinerary.aspx?embkCode=JAX&itinCode=BA1&shipCode=JU&durDays=4&subRegionCode=BH |website=Carnival.com via the Internet Archive | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040605200358/http://carnival.com:80/Itinerary.aspx?embkCode=JAX&itinCode=BA1&shipCode=JU&durDays=4&subRegionCode=BH |access-date=19 November 2022| archive-date=5 June 2004 }}
=P&O Cruises=
File:PacificSun (cropped).jpg, Sydney, Australia.]]
In 2004, the vessel was transferred to P&O Cruises Australia and renamed Pacific Sun. She arrived in Australia on 9 November 2004 and began year-round cruises from Sydney to the South Pacific and Tropical North Queensland. From late 2007, she was based in Brisbane and was then the largest year-round liner to be based in Queensland. After receiving a multimillion-dollar makeover, she sailed in all-white colours, like P&O's other ships, along with new amenities.{{cite web | title=Pacific Sun | url=http://www.pocruises.com.au/OurShips/Pages/PacificSun.aspx | publisher=P&O Cruises | year=2011 | access-date=14 September 2011}} Pacific Sun was the only ship of three siblings (with {{ship||Grand Celebration}} and {{ship||Grand Holiday}}) whose funnel was changed upon leaving Carnival Cruise Lines; her sister's funnels were simply repainted, while Sun had both Carnival's iconic wings and a part of its shielding removed. Carnival's first newbuilt ship, the slightly older Tropicale (now MS Ocean Dream), also had her Carnival funnel replaced with Costa Cruises's round stove-pipe funnel, which she retained until the end of her career.File:Pacific Sun Airlie Beach, Queensland 2011.jpg in the Whitsunday Islands in May 2011. ]]In late July 2008, 42 passengers were injured in a storm.{{cite news | author=Paul Chapman | title=Passengers hurt as storm rocks New Zealand cruise ship | url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacific/newzealand/2484612/Passengers-hurt-as-storm-rocks-New-Zealand-cruise-ship.html | work=The Telegraph | date=1 August 2008 | access-date=14 September 2011 | location=London}} The event became widely known when video footage was posted on the internet two years later.{{cite news | author=Laura Trowbridge | title=Shocking footage of havoc onboard cruise ship caught in big storm | url=http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/297248 | work=Digital Journal | date=9 September 2010 | access-date=14 September 2011}}
On 18 December 2011, P&O announced that Pacific Sun would leave its fleet in July 2012.{{Cite web|url=http://www.cruise-community.com/News/News-Headlines/PO-Australia-sells-Pacific-Sun.html |title=P&O Australia sells Pacific Sun |work=Seatrade Insider |date=19 December 2011 }}{{dead link|date=March 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} Her farewell cruise was an 8-day roundtrip from Portside Wharf in Brisbane, Australia, stopping at Nouméa, Lifou, in New Caledonia, and Port Vila, Vanuatu, with three days at sea. Pacific Sun had completed between 314 and 332 cruises, with 2,707 nights at sea and an estimated 586,000 passengers carried.
=HNA Cruises=
The ship was then sold to Chinese interests under the newly formed cruise line, HNA Cruises. On 13 September 2012, the ship was renamed Henna. The ship made her maiden voyage under Chinese ownership on 26 January 2013 from Sanya to Vietnam. At that time, the ship was the first luxury cruise liner in mainland China at over 47,000 tons with 739 passenger cabins and a maximum passenger capacity of 1,965. She had nine suites, 432 ocean-view staterooms, and 298 interior staterooms.{{cite web|last=Covey|first=Claudette|title=China's First Luxury Cruise Ship Henna Makes Maiden Voyage|url=http://www.travelpulse.com/chinas-first-luxury-cruise-ship-henna-makes-maiden-voyage.html|publisher=TravelPulse|date=28 January 2013}} During its operation with HNA Cruises, the ship sailed to locations in Vietnam and in South Korea.{{cite web|title=China's largest cruise ship Henna takes maiden voyage, from Sanya to Vietnam|url=http://www.whatsonsanya.com/sanya-travel-2279.html|date=29 January 2013|access-date=1 May 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130228074418/http://www.whatsonsanya.com/sanya-travel-2279.html|archive-date=28 February 2013|url-status=dead}}
In September 2013 the ship was detained at the South Korean island of Jeju after Chinese shipping service company Jiangsu Shagang International applied for a seizure. After several days stuck on board, the 1,659 passengers were flown home via HNA Group's China Hainan Airlines.{{cite news| url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-24098783 | work=BBC News | title=Henna dispute: Chinese cruise ship passengers evacuated | date=15 September 2013}}
In November 2015, HNA shut down its cruise ship operation after three years of losses in the region. Since the Henna{{'}}s last cruise with HNA, she was laid up and was placed for sale for $35 million USD.{{cite web|title=HNA Shuts Down Cruise Operation in China|url=https://www.cruiseindustrynews.com/cruise-news/13331-hna-shuts-down-cruise-operation-in-china.html|website=Cruise Industry News|access-date=5 December 2015|date=25 November 2015}}{{cite web|title=Henna - 1960pax Luxury Cruise Ship|url=http://www.nautisnp.com/passenger/cruise-ships/606-henna|website=NautiSNP|access-date=5 December 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151208123918/http://www.nautisnp.com/passenger/cruise-ships/606-henna|archive-date=8 December 2015}}
=Demise=
With there being no interested buyers, Henna was sold for scrapping in Alang, India. She was photographed there, renamed as the Hen, on 1 May 2017.{{cite web | url=https://www.cruisehive.com/old-carnival-jubilee-cruise-ship-to-be-scrapped/12142 | title=The Old Carnival Jubilee Cruise Ship to be Scrapped | date=7 June 2016 }}{{Cite web|url=https://www.cruisehive.com/old-carnival-cruise-ship-waiting-scrapped/16703|title=Old Carnival Cruise Ship Waiting to be Scrapped|date=1 May 2017}} By late June, scrapping began and was complete by the end of 2017.{{Cite web|url=https://www.cruisingtalk.com/threads/pictures-of-the-ex-pacific-sun-at-alang.36353/|title=Pictures of the Ex Pacific Sun at Alang|website=Cruising Forums}}
See also
References
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External links
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- [https://web.archive.org/web/20130705233313/http://www.hnacruises.com/ Henna page] at HNA Tourism Cruise and Yacht Management
- [http://www.pocruises.com.au/AboutUs/Pages/Pacific-Sun.aspx Pacific Sun historical page] at P&O Cruises ([https://web.archive.org/web/20130426101520/http://www.pocruises.com.au/AboutUs/Pages/Pacific-Sun.aspx mirror])
- [http://www.shipspotting.com/gallery/search.php?search_imo=8314122&page_limit=50 Professional photographs] from shipspotting.com
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