

It was announced in the evening of May 26, 2022, by Carnival through a letter to guests that the Carnival Freedom would remain in Grand Turk with passengers on board. Guests and crew members were allowed to go ashore, as originally planned in Grand Turk. Significant damage was sustained to part of the funnel, on the starboard side. The fire was extinguished with no injuries reported. On May 26, 2022, Carnival Freedom suffered a large fire in her funnel while she was docked in Grand Turk. funnel fire The funnel of Carnival Freedom on fire The passengers had disembarked in Galveston, Texas on March 14 – a day after Carnival Cruise Line suspended operations due to coronavirus. On March 25 they received a positive test result for COVID-19 and passengers from the cruise were subsequently asked to quarantine for 14 days by the cruise line. On March 23, 2020, a crew member who had sailed on the six day March 8 cruise out of Galveston, Texas was hospitalized in Gulfport, Mississippi after experiencing flu-like symptoms.

COVID-19 įurther information: COVID-19 pandemic on cruise ships The cruise line told the media that the smoke was caused by an engine turbocharger malfunction. In 2019, a photographer took a picture of the ship emitting black smoke in Cayman Islands. The ship will reposition to Seattle and sail at Alaska in 2021. Carnival Freedom resumed port calls to Grand Bahama in November 2019 when Hurricane Dorian ravaged the country. In the fall of 2008, she sailed the Caribbean again but out of Port Everglades until February 2015 when she changed her home port to Galveston, Texas. In the summer of 2008, she returned to Europe and sailed in the Mediterranean again. Areas of operation Ĭarnival Freedom initially sailed from her homeport in Civitavecchia near Rome on Mediterranean cruises until the Fall of 2007 when she sailed the Caribbean Sea from the Port of Miami. In 2019 March, the ship debuted with its water park and major renovation. Ĭarnival Freedom entered a three-week routine drydock in Freeport, Bahamas on Mafor refurbishment and completed another dry dock in March 2019. The ship has 1,150 crew, 1,487 cabins and is able to carry 2,974 passengers traveling at a speed of 21 knots (39 km/h 24 mph). The ship is also one of the first of the Carnival Cruise Line fleet to get a complete to maintain of the kids’ program. She was floated out on April 28, 2006, delivered to Carnival on February 28, 2007, and formally named in Venice by American model, actress, author and entrepreneur Kathy Ireland on March 4, 2007. The ship was built by Fincantieri at its Marghera shipyard in Venice, Italy. History Carnival Freedom at night on March 3, 2008. She was delivered to Carnival on February 28, 2007. The ship was built as part of a four-ship deal with Fincantieri's Marghera shipyard and was launched in Venice, Italy on April 28, 2006. She is the 22nd operating vessel in the fleet, and the last of the Conquest-class ships.

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