MS Celebration

Celebration at Nassau in December 2005.
History
Name	1987–2008: Celebration 2008–2014: Grand Celebration 2014–2015: Costa Celebration 2015–2020: Grand Celebration 2020–2021: Grand
Owner	1987–2014: Carnival Corporation & plc 2014–2020: Bahamas Paradise Cruise Line
Operator	1987–2008: Carnival Cruise Lines 2008–2014: Ibero Cruises 2014: Costa Cruises 2014–2020: Bahamas Paradise Cruise Line
Port of registry	1987–2000: Monrovia,  Liberia 2000–2008: Panama City,  Panama 2008–2014: Madeira, 2014–2020: Nassau, 2020-2021: Saint Kitts and Nevis,
Builder	Kockums Varv, Malmö, Sweden
Cost	US$130 million
Yard number	597
Launched	9 August 1986
Completed	1987
Acquired	February 1987
Maiden voyage	14 March 1987
In service	1987–2020
Out of service	March 2020
Identification	Call sign V4FY4 IMO number: 8314134 MMSI number: 255803270
Fate	Scrapped at Alang, India in 2021
General characteristics
Class and type	Holiday Class
Tonnage	47,262 GT 6,405 DWT
Length	223.37 m (733 ft)
Beam	28.20 m (93 ft)
Draught	7.75 m (25 ft 5 in)
Decks	10 (passenger accessible)
Installed power	2 × 7-cylinder Sulzer diesels combined 23510 kW
Propulsion	2 propellers
Speed	21.7 knots (40.2 km/h; 25.0 mph)
Capacity	1,496 passengers
Crew	670

The Celebration (also known as Grand Celebration) was a cruise ship originally built for Carnival Cruise Line. She was the last of three ships to be built in Carnival's Holiday Class of cruise ships. She last sailed for Bahamas Paradise Cruise Line between 2015 and 2020.

The Grand Celebration was sold for scrap in 2020 with her sister ship, MS Holiday, precipitated in part by the COVID-19 pandemic.^[1][2] A third sister ship, the MS Jubilee, was last operated by HNA Tourism. Jubilee was retired and scrapped in 2017.