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Mardi Gras is an Excellence-class cruise ship operated by Carnival Cruise Line. She is Carnival's lead vessel of the fleet's Excel-class, a subclass of the Excellence class, and was built by Finnish shipbuilder Meyer Turku in Turku, Finland .
Three vessels have been named Mardi Gras: Mardi Gras (1972), launched in 1960 as the liner Empress of Canada she was renamed on entering service with Carnival Cruise Line as a cruise ship in 1972. She was sold to Epirotiki in 1993 and scrapped in 2003 after a number of changes of both owner and name; Mardi Gras (2006), a bulk carrier launched ...
Scrapped. Built as an ocean liner, sold to Carnival Cruise Lines in 1972, and became its first ship, the Mardi Gras. Sold in 1993 to Epirotiki Line, and renamed the Olympic, Star of Texas, unLucky Star and Apollon. Sold for scrap in 2003. Empress of the Seas: Royal Caribbean International: 1990: 48,563: Operating. Nordic Empress from 1990 – 2004.
The first large cruise ships were the Voyager-class from Royal Caribbean Group's Royal Caribbean International (RCI). These ships, which debuted in 1998 at over 137,000 GT, were almost 30,000 GT larger than the next-largest cruise ships, and were some of the first designed to offer amenities unrelated to cruising, such as an ice rink and climbing wall. [1]
At 183,521 GT, she is the largest ship in Carnival's fleet. Unlike her sister ship, Mardi Gras, as well as the original Celebration, this ship is named Carnival Celebration using the Carnival prefix. Her name was announced on 21 August 2020. [2] She was ordered on 6 November 2016 from the Finnish shipyard Meyer Turku. [3]
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Originally smaller, jumboisation made Seawise Giant the largest ship ever by length, displacement (657,019 tonnes), and deadweight tonnage. [2] Batillus class (4 ships) 414.22 m (1,359 ft) 553,661–555,051 DWT: 274,837–275,276 GT: 1976–2003 Broken up The largest and longest ships ever to be laid down per original plans.