The Spirit class is a class of cruise ships built at the Kvaerner Masa-Yards Helsinki New Shipyard in Helsinki , Finland . The ships are operated by Carnival Cruise Lines , CSSC Carnival Cruise Shipping and Costa Cruises (a subsidiary of Miami-based Carnival Corporation ). The six ships were built to the original Panamax form factor , allowing them to pass through the Panama Canal . This class has the smallest of the signature smoke stacks that Carnival has on their ships. Carnival's Spirit -class ships also feature a unique funnel design that integrates the skylight dome of the atrium.
9-548: Carnival Spirit is a Spirit -class cruise ship operated by Carnival Cruise Line , a subsidiary of Carnival Corporation & plc . Built in Helsinki by Kværner Masa-Yards , she was the first Spirit -class cruise ship to join Carnival's fleet after she was delivered in 2001. Built by Kværner Masa-Yards at its Helsinki New Shipyard in Helsinki , Carnival Spirit was launched on 7 July 2000 and completed on 11 April 2001. She
18-678: A hybrid between the Spirit class and the Vista class , creating the Vista/ Spirit hybrid class . As of November 2022, Costa Luminosa (now Carnival Luminosa ) is marketed by Carnival as a part of their Spirit class. Seattle, Washington Tampa, Florida London, England Rome, Italy Barcelona, Spain Tampa, Florida Long Beach, California Galveston, Texas Vista Spirit hybrid class cruise ship The Vista Spirit hybrid-class cruise ship
27-563: Is the culmination of two cruise ship designs. Carnival Corporation had two competing and very similar ship designs, the Vista class and Spirit class . The Italian shipbuilder Fincantieri constructed Vista-class ships for Holland America and P&O Cruises and the Finnish STX shipbuilder built Spirit -class vessels for the Carnival and Costa brands. Both designs incorporated Azipods , and were Panamax ships around 90,000 gross tonnage (GT). The visual differences between
36-892: The Bahamas on 7 March, replacing voyages originally slated for Carnival Ecstasy . It marked a decade since the ship last operated permanently in North America. She is scheduled to move to Seattle to sail in Alaska in summer 2022 and Caribbean from Miami afterwards from 2022 to 2023, replacing sailings planned for Carnival Freedom and has been deployed to begin sailing from Mobile, Alabama in October 2023 following another Alaskan season in Summer 2023. Spirit-class cruise ship In 2007 and 2009, Queen Victoria and Costa Luminosa (built by Fincantieri ) were introduced. The design of these ships are
45-589: The South Pacific and New Zealand , from 20 October 2012. In May 2016, Carnival announced the ship would sail seasonally from Shanghai beginning in the Australian winter of 2018, making her the first Carnival ship to be based in China . In late-2016, Carnival subsequently reversed this decision and Carnival Spirit continued to sail from Sydney, and explained the Australian market continued to be strong, which did not make
54-481: The first time Carnival based a ship permanently outside North America. She had undergone a dry dock in San Francisco nine months prior to prepare her for the Australian deployment, which included installing Australian-style power points, as well as changing the on-board currency to the Australian dollar. The total cost of the renovations was estimated to total US$ 7 million. She sailed her first voyage from Sydney, to
63-753: The move economically viable in the long term. In summer 2018, Carnival announced that Carnival Spirit would become the company's first ship to sail from Brisbane from 2020. However, amid the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on tourism , she never debuted in Brisbane during the cruise industry's pause in operations. She was also the last Cruise Ship to sail from sydney in 2020, before the Australian Cruising Shutdown In February 2022, Carnival announced she would be redeployed to Jacksonville, Florida and begin operating four-to-five-day itineraries to
72-644: The waters alongside the Alaskan Inside Passage on alternating one-week northbound and southbound voyages calling in Vancouver and Seattle . In December 2011, Carnival Spirit sailed to the Hawaiian Islands . After Carnival Spirit finished her Alaskan and Hawaii cruises, she embarked on a transpacific crossing , calling in Tahiti and Fiji to reposition to Sydney , arriving on 16 October 2012. It marked
81-659: Was formally named by American politician Elizabeth Dole in Miami on 27 April 2001. Previously in the northern fall and winter seasons, Carnival Spirit sailed cruises from San Diego and Los Angeles to the Mexican Riviera . After Carnival Spirit ' s repositioning out of San Diego in April 2012, Carnival ceased operations with that port. During the period from mid-May and ending in September (northern summer), Carnival Spirit sailed
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