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| History | |
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| Name |
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| Owner | |
| Operator |
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| Port of registry | |
| Builder | Kockums Varv, Malmö, Sweden |
| Cost | US$134 million |
| Yard number | 596 |
| Launched | 26 October 1985 |
| Completed | 1986 |
| Acquired | June 1986 |
| Maiden voyage | 6 July 1986 |
| In service | 1986–2016 |
| Out of service | 6 June 2016 |
| Identification |
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| Fate | Scrapped atAlang,India in 2017. |
| Notes | [2][3][4] |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Holiday-classcruise ship |
| Tonnage | |
| Length | 223.4 m (732 ft 11 in) |
| Beam | 28.2 m (92 ft 6 in) |
| Draft | 7.5 m (24 ft 7 in) |
| Decks | 9 passenger decks[5] |
| Installed power |
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| Propulsion | Two propellers |
| Speed | 21.7 knots (40.2 km/h; 25.0 mph) |
| Capacity | 1,486 passengers |
| Crew | 670 |
MSJubilee (also known asPacific Sun andHenna) was acruise ship that was originally built forCarnival Cruise Line. She was the second of three ships to be built for Carnival'sHoliday class. 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.
Jubilee was built in 1986 byKockums Varv, Malmö, Sweden, forCarnival Cruise Line, along with near-sister shipCelebration. The other near-sister ship of the class,Holiday, was built earlier byAalborg Værft in Aalborg, Denmark.
For many years,Jubilee sailed fromLos Angeles to theMexican Riviera, includingEnsenada,Puerto Vallarta,Cabo San Lucas andMazatlan.[6][7] In 1989, she sailed fromVancouver toAlaska andHawaii, and in later years, fromMiami to the Caribbean[8] and Miami toSan Diego via the Panama Canal.[9] Her final homeport wasJacksonville, Florida. The last passenger cruise with Carnival took place on August 26, 2004, toNassau andFreeport, Bahamas.[10]
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In 2004, the vessel was transferred toP&O Cruises Australia and renamedPacific Sun. She arrived in Australia on 9 November 2004 and began year-round cruises fromSydney to theSouth Pacific andTropical North Queensland. From late 2007, she was based inBrisbane 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.[11]Pacific Sun was the only ship of three siblings (withGrand Celebration andGrand Holiday) whose funnel was changed upon leaving Carnival Cruise Lines; her sister's funnels were simply repainted, whileSun had both Carnival's iconic wings and a part of its shielding removed. Carnival's first newbuilt ship, the slightly olderTropicale (nowMSOcean Dream), also had her Carnival funnel replaced withCosta Cruises's round stove-pipe funnel, which she retained until the end of her career.
In late July 2008, 42 passengers were injured in a storm.[12] The event became widely known when video footage was posted on the internet two years later.[13]
On 18 December 2011, P&O announced thatPacific Sun would leave its fleet in July 2012.[14] Her farewell cruise was an 8-day roundtrip fromPortside Wharf in Brisbane, Australia, stopping atNouméa,Lifou, in New Caledonia, andPort 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.[5]
The ship was then sold to Chinese interests under the newly formed cruise line, HNA Cruises. On 13 September 2012, the ship was renamedHenna. The ship made her maiden voyage under Chinese ownership on 26 January 2013 fromSanya toVietnam. 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.[15] During its operation with HNA Cruises, the ship sailed to locations inVietnam and inSouth Korea.[15][16]
In September 2013 the ship was detained at the South Korean island ofJeju 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 viaHNA Group'sChina Hainan Airlines.[17]
In November 2015, HNA shut down its cruise ship operation after three years of losses in the region. Since theHenna's last cruise with HNA, she was laid up and was placed for sale for $35 million USD.[18][19]
With there being no interested buyers,Henna was sold for scrapping inAlang, India. She was photographed there, renamed as theHen, on 1 May 2017.[20][21] By late June, scrapping began and was complete by the end of 2017.[22]
