Carnival Glory

Carnival Glory at anchor in Belize City

Lloyd 's Register of Shipping

IMO no. 9198367

The Carnival Glory (German Honour) is a post -Panamax cruise ship of Carnival Cruise Lines. The measured with 110 239 gt cruise ship is the second ship of the Conquest - class and sailing under the flag of Panama.

History

Construction and commissioning

The Carnival Glory was created as 20 new ships of the shipping company on the Italian Fincantieri shipyard in Monfalcone. She was laid down on 1 July 1999 in Kiel and was delivered on 27 June 2003 to the Client. After the 12 - day transfer to the location of Port Canaveral baptism followed on 14 July 2003 by the astrophysicist and former astronaut Dr. Sally Ride. They took several attempts to meet the ship's hull with the bottle.

Use

After a five- day cruise immediately after the naming ceremony the Carnival Glory was stationed on 19 July 2003 at that time the largest cruise ship in Port Canaveral. Meanwhile the ship from different base ports (including Miami, Charleston ), starting mainly used in the Caribbean. Due to their width, however, Panama Canal passages are not possible. In addition, the Carnival Glory leads from the base port also rides through New York on the East Coast.

Machinery and drive

The diesel-electric machinery of the Carnival Glory is the type of ship Carnival Conquest nearly identical. In the four 16-cylinder engine and two 12-cylinder Wärtsilä NSD diesel engines is under license of Sulzer series ZA40S with a cylinder capacity of 720 kW ( 980 hp). You drive generators from ABB to supply the ship with electricity. The drive of the two fixed-pitch propellers via wave systems with three-phase synchronous motors.

During a regular Trockendockaufenthalts end of January 2010 at the Grand Bahama Shipyard in Freeport ( Bahamas) the previous produced in monoblock design 5-blade fixed propeller and rudder blades through the " Promas Lite " - drive system from Rolls- Royce were replaced. This integrated the propeller - rudder system consists of 4-blade fixed pitch propellers with separately bolted blades (diameter: 5.8 m) and optimized rudder. The new drive system is an efficiency increase of 11 according to the manufacturer - can reach 13%.

Cabins and onboard facilities

The Carnival Glory was originally equipped with 1,469 cabins, of which approximately 60 % are located outside. From the outside cabins in turn have about 60 % over a balcony.

The ship was designed by Joseph Farcus with the theme " colors ". Accordingly, the name of the public areas relate to colors and shades. The ship's name refers to the nickname of the American national flag ( " Old Glory ").

The center of the Carnival Glory is the " Colors Lobby " on deck 3 ( " lobby " deck) with the " Old Glory " atrium up on deck 10 ( "Panorama" deck) reaches up and will be completed there by a glass dome. In the atrium, four panoramic elevators are installed. In the rear part of the ship is another smaller atrium ( "Spectrum" ), which extends over three decks and is connected via the " Caleidoscope Boulevard " on deck 5 with public areas amidships and the bow.

The Carnival Glory is equipped among other things with 22 themed bars and lounges. The main theater ( " Amber Palace ", dt Amber Palace) can accommodate about 1,400 visitors and was modeled after the Amber Room. The two main restaurants ( " Golden Restaurant " and " Platinum Restaurant " ) are based on the gold and silver temples of the Japanese city of Kyoto. Is the main kitchen area between the two restaurants. The "Ebony Cabaret" at the rear was designed on the basis of African art. On board the Carnival Glory, there are four pools. One of them ( amidships, "Turquoise Pool " ) has a 65 -foot water slide, one ( aft, " Azure Lido Pool " ) can with a movable roof structure ( " magrodome " ) covered and can be used even in poor weather conditions. The spa area with an area of ​​1,350 m² is located on deck 11, on the "Sky" deck was a "Serenity " area set up, the adults-only.

End of January 2010, the board arrangements of the ship have been extensively overhauled and modernized. This deck was also set up the so-called "Seaside Theatre " on the " Panorama", which consists of an LED screen with an area of ​​about 25 square meters and a 70,000 -watt sound system. In addition, a further 18 cabins have been fitted to the "spa" deck with balconies. This has the Carnival Glory over 1,487 balcony staterooms.