Carnival Freedom

Carnival Freedom is a Conquest-class cruise ship operated by Carnival Cruise Line. She is the 22nd operating vessel in the fleet, and the last of the Conquest-class ships. 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 was delivered to Carnival on February 28, 2007.[3]

Carnival Freedom
History
Name: Carnival Freedom
Owner: Carnival Corporation & plc
Operator: Carnival Cruise Line
Port of registry: Panama City,  Panama
Builder:
Yard number: 6129
Launched: April 28, 2006
Sponsored by: Kathy Ireland
Christened: March 4, 2007
Acquired: February 28, 2007
Maiden voyage: March 5, 2007
Identification:
Status: Not in service
Notes: [1]
General characteristics
Class and type: Conquest-class cruise ship
Tonnage: 110,000 GT
Length: 952 ft (290.2 m)
Beam: 116 ft (35.4 m)
Decks: 13 (numbered 1-14, skipping the number 13)
Installed power: Six diesel-electric generators (Wärtsilä 12V46C)
Propulsion: Two shafts
Speed:
  • 21 knots (39 km/h; 24 mph) (service)
  • 22.5 knots (41.7 km/h; 25.9 mph) (maximum)[1]
Capacity: 2,980 passengers [2]
Crew: 1,150

History
Carnival Freedom at Night on March 3, 2008.

The ship was built by Fincantieri at its Marghera shipyard in Venice, Italy. 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.[1][4][5][6] The ship is also one of the first of the Carnival Cruise Line fleet to get a complete to maintain of the kids’ program.[7]

The ship has 1,150 crew, 1,487 cabins and is able to carry 2,974 passengers traveling at a speed of 21 knots.[8]

Carnival Freedom entered a three-week routine drydock in Freeport, Bahamas on March 30, 2014 for refurbishment and completed another dry dock in March 2019.[9] In 2019 March, the ship debuted with its water park and major renovation.[10]

Areas of operation

Carnival 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 the summer of 2008, she returned to Europe and sailed in the Mediterranean again.[11] 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. Carnival Freedom resumed port calls to Grand Bahama in November 2019 when Hurricane Dorian ravaged the country.[12] The ship will reposition to Seattle and sail at Alaska in 2021.[13]

Incidents

In 2019, a photographer took a picture of the ship emitting black smoke in Cayman Islands. The cruise line told the media that the smoke was caused by an engine turbocharger malfunction.[14][15]

COVID-19
Further information: COVID-19 pandemic on cruise ships

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. 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. The passengers had disembarked in Galveston, Texas on March 14 – a day after Carnival Cruise Line suspended operations due to coronavirus.[16]

References

Notes
  1. Smith 2010, p. 38.
  2. "Carnival.com". Retrieved September 5, 2018.
  3. "13 Reasons Why You Should Cruise on Carnival Freedom". January 30, 2019.
  4. Spencer Brown, Carolyn (February 28, 2007). "Carnival Takes Delivery of Freedom". Cruise Critic. The Independent Traveler, Inc. Retrieved May 30, 2015.
  5. Jainchill, Johanna (March 5, 2007). "Kathy Ireland christens Carnival Freedom". Travel Weekly. Northstar Travel Media. Retrieved May 30, 2015.
  6. "Carnival Freedom (9333149)". LR Class Direct. Lloyd's Register. Retrieved May 30, 2015.
  7. "Carnival Freedom 2.0". TravelPulse.
  8. "Carnival Freedom - Cruise Ship". Ship Technology.
  9. "Third Carnival Cruise Ship of 2019 Completes Dry Dock". Cruise Hive. March 10, 2019. Retrieved March 11, 2019.
  10. Tribou, Richard. "Carnival Freedom debuts water park, other upgrades". orlandosentinel.com.
  11. "Carnival Cruise Line Resumes Sailings to Freeport, Bahamas Post-Hurricane". www.cruisecritic.com.
  12. Deerwester, Jayme. "Carnival resumes port calls to Grand Bahama Friday; flights may resume in mid-November". USA TODAY.
  13. "Carnival Freedom Heading to Alaska for 2021 Summer Season". TravelPulse.
  14. Bartiromo, Michael (November 4, 2019). "Carnival Cruise Line says smoke seen in Carnival Freedom photo was caused by engine turbocharger malfunction". Fox News.
  15. "Carnival's pollution grabs headlines - Cayman Islands Headline News". November 4, 2019.
  16. Harris, Alex; Dolven, Taylor (March 27, 2020). "Carnival Freedom passengers told to isolate after crew member's positive COVID-19 test". Miami Herald. Miami Herald. Retrieved February 3, 2021.

Bibliography
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