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Name Carnival Destiny

Shipyard Fincantieri

Owner Carnival Cruise Lines

Delivery November 1996

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Carnival Cruise Lines' MS Carnival Destiny, recently entered intolthe Guinness Book of

Records as the largeA passenger ship ever built, reached anotheX milestone in late

December 1996 when it carried a record 3,269 passengers, the most ever\n a single cruise ship voyage. The ship has a r^aximum capaci- ty of 3,360, and operates an alternating sched- ule of week-long voyages to theVlastern and

Western Caribbean from its ho|peport of

Miami.

Destiny's interior favors the desig\ trend towards busy and modern art, a modesXgold- plated plaque mounted on the sVp's

Promenade or "Destiny Way," attests \to

Carnival's adherence to another cruise sectoS trend — Italian vessel construction. Destiny1 was contracted out to Fincantieri and the group's Monfalcone yard completed the task on time, and with "innovation and flair," as called for in its corporate mission.

According to Lloyd's Register, which classed

Destiny, the ship is the first cruise vessel to comply with all of the amendments to the

Safety of Life At Sea (SOLAS) Convention of 1992. This includes safer positioning of lifeboats, emergency exit routes with low loca- tion lighting and improved structural fire pro- tection standards covering aspects such as enhanced materials specification.

The ship features generous cabin design, 60 percent of the staterooms equippedyltfith ocean views, and a little more than halffl*these featuring private balconies large e^rough for two to sit out on.

The ship's diesel-electric provision system, supplied by ABB, employs a c^itral generating arrangement with six ABBrgenerators driven by six Sulzer diesel engines, giving a service speed of 22.5 knots. J^e two ABB 20 MVA syn- chronous propulsion motors, driving twin screws and conrollable pitch propellers, oper- ate at variable speeds, being supplied through

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M \ \ cycloconve^e^^ which provide a frequency betweeiyO and l^Hz — reportedly the first ever high Voltage cyclNtonverters installed on a 3e ship. ile Destiny is incsf^able of transiting the 'Panama Canal, Carnival'^yicki Freed, senior vice president, Sales anc^^larketing, told

MR/EN in an interview lasVvear that the emergence of large-sized ships would not elimi- nate the company's newbuild desigk efforts in the 70,000-ton range. "I think the 7^00-ton

Fantasy ships will continue to be ordered because of the flexibility of being able to m^ye in and out of port. It's not just the big shi^ that will be ordered, " said the cruise executive.^

With an Asian cruise venture in the works with Hyundai Merchant Marine, agreements in place with the U.K's Airtours, plans to acquire

Italian cruise interest Costa Crociere, and three

Carnival ships — two 70,000-ton and one 100,000-ton — set to emerge in 1998, Carnival has established a reputation as a sector power- house in a consolidating marketplace.

Carnival Destiny Main

Particulars/Machinery

Length o.a 893.03 ft. (272.2 m)

Width 116.4 ft. (35.48 m)

Draft 26.9 ft. (8.2 m) lonnage 101,353 gt

Speed 22.5 kn

Passenger capacity 3,360

Main power diesel-electric propulsion

Generators (6) ABB £ngines ) Sulzer diesels pellers controllable pitch

OasMjcation Lloyd's Register

Order \ue $400 M

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