Caribbean Princess

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Caribbean Princess in Cobh, May 2017.
History
Flag of Bermuda.svg Bermuda
NameCaribbean Princess
Owner Carnival Corporation house flag.svg Carnival Corporation & plc
Operator Princess Cruises
Port of registry Flag of Bermuda.svg Hamilton, Bermuda [1]
Builder Fincantieri (Monfalcone, Italy) [2]
Cost US $500 million [1]
Launched4 July 2003
Christened2 April 2004 by Jill Whelan in Fort Lauderdale [3]
Maiden voyage3 April 2004 [4]
In serviceApril 2004 [1]
Identification
StatusIn service
General characteristics
Class and type Grand-class cruise ship
Tonnage112,894  GT
Length951 ft (289.9 m)
Beam118 ft (36.0 m)
Draft26.2 ft (8.0 m) [1]
Decks17 total, 15 passenger [1]
Installed power2 diesel-electric propellers (42,000  kW (56,000  hp) each) [1]
Speed22 knots (41 km/h; 25 mph) [1]
Capacity3,142 passengers
Crew1,200 crew [7]

MS Caribbean Princess is a modified Grand-class cruise ship owned and operated by Princess Cruises, with a capacity of over 3,600 passengers, the largest carrying capacity in the Princess fleet until June 2013 when the new Royal Princess, another Princess ship superseded its record. She has 900 balcony staterooms and a deck of mini-suites.

Contents

Caribbean Princess is slightly larger than the other ships in her class (Star Princess, Golden Princess, and Grand Princess), due to an additional deck of cabins called the "Riviera" deck. Another difference is that, being initially designed to cruise the Caribbean year-round, there is no sliding roof over the pool area for shelter in poor weather.

Incidents

On 12 March 2012, Caribbean Princess suffered a problem with her port side propulsion engine that required her to return to her home port of San Juan, Puerto Rico after a stopover in St. Maarten. The problem caused Princess Cruises to cancel the next two trips (scheduled for 18 and 25 March). [8]

Caribbean Princess experienced a norovirus outbreak in January 2014 sickening approximately 200 people on board. The scheduled cruise ended two days early. [9]

On 3 August 2016, Caribbean Princess experienced a power outage while on a British Isles cruise. The ship completely lost propulsion about 25 nautical miles (46 km) southeast of Dublin, Ireland in the Irish Sea, and was left adrift for nine hours. During the power outage, air conditioners, lighting, hotel functions, and toilets were all functional. [10] The ship regained power and sailed to Belfast, Northern Ireland, missing her next port of Dublin on her itinerary. An ocean-going tug was dispatched from Holyhead in North Wales, UK and an air/sea rescue helicopter from Dublin monitored the situation. The cruise continued without any further problems to either the ship or the passengers.

In 2019, a man in his 30's drowned in a pool aboard Caribbean Princess. [11]

Ocean pollution

On 26 August 2013, the crew of Caribbean Princess deliberately discharged 4,227 US gallons (16,000 l) of oil-contaminated bilge pollution off the southern coast of England. [12] The discharge involved the illegal modification of the vessel's on-board pollution control systems and use of a "magic pipe", and was photographed by a newly hired engineer. [13] [14] When the ship subsequently berthed at Southampton, the engineer resigned his position and reported the discharge to the UK Maritime and Coastguard Agency. [15] An investigation was launched by the United States Department of Justice Environment and Natural Resources Division which found that the practice had been taking place on Caribbean Princess and four other Princess ships since 2005. [16] In December 2016, Princess Cruise Lines agreed to plead guilty to seven felony charges and pay a $40 million penalty. The charges related to illegal discharges off the coasts of Florida, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia, the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico. [17] As part of the agreement cruise ships from eight Carnival companies, including Carnival Cruise Line and Holland America Line, are required to operate for five years under a court-supervised environmental compliance plan with independent audits and a court-appointed monitor. [18] According to the US Justice Department, the fine was the "largest-ever criminal penalty involving deliberate vessel pollution." [17]

Areas of operation

Caribbean Princess has undertaken cruises from European ports around the British Isles, northern Europe and the Mediterranean and from North American ports to the Caribbean, New England and Canada. The ship in July 2019 left her current home port of Fort Lauderdale, Florida and sailed up to a new home port in New York for cruises to Canada, New England, and Greenland. As of 2020, however, the ship sails primarily in the Caribbean.

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References

Notes

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  10. ↑ Jim Walker (3 August 2016). "Caribbean Princess Loses Power in Irish Sea". Cruise Law News.
  11. ↑ "Air Force major drowns in pool aboard Caribbean Princess".
  12. ↑ "The $40m 'magic pipe': Princess Cruises given record fine for dumping oil at sea". The Guardian . London. 2 December 2016. Retrieved 3 December 2016.
  13. ↑ Martin, Hugo (1 December 2016). "Princess Cruises to pay $40-million fine for dumping oily waste and lying about it". Los Angeles Times . Los Angeles. Retrieved 3 December 2016.
  14. ↑ "Carnival's Princess Cruises to pay record fine for pollution, cover-up". CBS News . New York. 2 December 2016. Retrieved 3 December 2016.
  15. ↑ Rogers, Katie (2 December 2016). "Princess Cruise Lines to Pay $40 Million Fine for Illegal Dumping". The New York Times . New York. Retrieved 3 December 2016.
  16. ↑ Flechas, Joey; Herrera, Chabeli (1 December 2016). "Carnival Corp ship caught in pollution scheme. Now they're paying $40 million for it". Miami Herald . Miami. Retrieved 3 December 2016.
  17. 1 2 "Princess Cruise Lines fined $40m for waste dumping after UK tip-off". BBC News . 1 December 2016. Retrieved 3 December 2016.
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