Carnival Fantasy

Carnival Fantasy docked at Charleston, July 2012
History
Name
  • Fantasy (1990–2007)
  • Carnival Fantasy (2007–2020)
Owner Carnival Corporation & plc
Operator Carnival Cruise Line
Port of registryPanama City,  Panama[1]
Builder
Yard number479
LaunchedDecember 9, 1988
Sponsored byTellervo Koivisto
ChristenedMarch 1, 1990
CompletedJanuary 27, 1990
Maiden voyageMarch 1, 1990
In service1990–July 2020
Out of service2020
Refit2013 2016 (Funship 2.0)
Identification
FateScrapped in Aliağa, Turkey in 2020
General characteristics
Class and typeFantasy-class cruise ship
Tonnage
Length855 ft (261 m)
Beam103 ft (31 m)
Draft7.80 m (25 ft 7 in)
Decks10
Installed power
  • 2 × Sulzer-Wärtsilä 8ZAV40S
  • 4 × Sulzer-Wärtsilä 12ZAV40S
  • 42,240 kW (56,640 hp) (combined)
PropulsionTwo propellers
Speed21 knots (39 km/h; 24 mph)
Capacity
  • 2,052 passengers (lower berths)
  • 2,675 passengers (all berths)[1]
Crew920

Carnival Fantasy (formerly Fantasy) was a cruise ship operated by Carnival Cruise Line. She was the first ship of her namesake class, which was the largest by number of ships, before the scrapping of the Fantasy, Inspiration, Imagination, and the selling of the Fascination in 2020. Built by Kværner Masa-Yards at its Helsinki New Shipyard in Helsinki, Finland, she was floated out on December 9, 1988, completed on January 27, 1990[2] and formally named on March 1, 1990, as Fantasy by Tellervo Koivisto,[3] wife of the then President of Finland, Mauno Koivisto. During 2007, in common with all of her Fantasy-class sisters, she had the prefix "Carnival" added to her name.[4]

In July 2020, Carnival Corporation & plc confirmed that it had sold Carnival Fantasy for scrap.[5]

  1. ^ a b c "Carnival Fantasy Review". Cruise Critic. The Independent Traveler, Inc. 1995–2008. Archived from the original on August 25, 2008. Retrieved August 16, 2008.
  2. ^ "Carnival Fantasy (8700773)". Miramar Ship Index. Retrieved January 8, 2019.
  3. ^ Smith 2010, p. 36.
  4. ^ Dake, Shawn J. (January 2008). "Cruise Ships 2007 the year in review" (PDF). Ocean Times. 12 (1). Steamship Historical Society of America: Southern California Chapter: 2–8.
  5. ^ "Carnival Sells Two Ships and Two Enter Long Term Layup". Talking Cruise. July 23, 2020. Retrieved August 19, 2020.