Carnival Magic

Carnival Magic is a Dream-class cruise ship which entered service on 1 May 2011. The ship was named and christened in Venice by her godmother Lindsey Wilkerson, a former patient and current researcher at St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital.[7]

This article is about the cruise ship. For the films, see Carnival Magic (1927 film) and Carnival Magic (1981 film).
Carnival Magic in Venice
History
Panama
Name: Carnival Magic
Owner: Carnival Corporation & plc
Operator: Carnival Cruise Line
Port of registry:  Panama
Ordered: 2007
Builder: Fincantieri, Monfalcone , Italy
Cost: US$740 million
Yard number: 6167
Laid down: 20 November 2008
Launched: 27 August 2010
Christened: 1 May 2011, by Godmother Lindsey Wilkerson
Completed: 29 April 2011
Maiden voyage: 1 May 2011
In service: 1 May 2011
Identification:
Status: Service suspended
Notes: [1]
General characteristics
Class and type: Dream-class cruise ship
Tonnage:
Length: 306.471 m (1,005 ft 5.8 in)[2]
Beam:
  • 37.18 m (122 ft 0 in) (waterline)[2]
  • 48 m
    (158 ft) (max)[3]
Draught: 8.4 m (27 ft 7 in)[2]
Depth: 11.21 m (36 ft 9 in)[2]
Decks: 14 passenger decks, 17 decks total
Installed power:
Speed:
  • 22.5 knots (41.7 km/h; 25.9 mph) (cruise)[3]
  • 25 knots (46 km/h; 29 mph) (maxe)
Capacity:
  • 3,690 (double)
  • 4,724 (max)[3]
Crew: 1,386[3]
Notes: [4][5][6]

Carnival Magic was laid down on 20 November 2008, launched from her drydock on 27 August 2010 and completed on 29 April 2011.[8] Sea trials were undertaken between 17–20 March 2011.[9] She has 1,845 passenger cabins and 746 crew cabins, and can carry over 6,000 persons in total.[10]

The lifeboat configuration of Carnival Magic differs from that of her sister ship, Carnival Dream, in that Carnival Magic has 18 double-size lifeboats, while Carnival Dream has 30 smaller boats. Carnival Magic also has a large, highly visible SkyCourse ropes course forward of her funnel that is not present on her sister.

There are 19 decks (although marked as having 15 decks on the deck plan because there is no "Deck 13" on Carnival ships) aboard Carnival Magic.[11]

Drydock refurbishment

Carnival Magic was dry-docked in June 2016 which included refurbishment of some public areas. [12]

Cruising areas

Carnival Magic spent her inaugural season, summer 2011, cruising the Mediterranean Sea.[13] She then made a transatlantic crossing in autumn, 2011, and was homeported in Galveston, Texas from which she made Caribbean Sea cruises. In April, 2016, her homeport changed to Port Canaveral, Florida from which she continued making Caribbean cruises.[14]

Carnival Magic is set to reposition to Miami, Florida in September 2018, sailing 7-day eastern and western Caribbean cruises. She was expected to move homeport to Fort Lauderdale, Florida in May 2019.[15]

Incidents and accidents

On 2 July 2012, during a seven-day Caribbean cruise, a 39-year-old male guest died when he accidentally fell from his cabin balcony and landed on an open deck area three decks below.[16]

In October 2014 a Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas employee who may have handled lab specimens from Ebola victim Thomas Eric Duncan after he boarded the ship on 12 October in Galveston. The hospital employee and her spouse showed no signs of the virus, but voluntarily quarantined themselves on the ship. The ship was allowed to dock in Belize, but the quarantined couple was refused the ability to disembark; thus derailing the plan to offload the couple for a flight home. Mexico went a step further and did not grant docking privileges to the ship.[17] A United States Coast Guard helicopter flew to Carnival Magic on 18 October to obtain blood samples. The following day the Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital employee and her spouse were allowed to disembark in Galveston after the tests were determined to be negative for both the employee and her spouse.[18]

References
  1. Teijo Niemelä (27 August 2010). "Fincantieri launches Carnival Magic". Cruise Business News. Archived from the original on 27 February 2012. Retrieved 25 March 2012.
  2. "Carnival Magic (9378486)". LR Class Direct. Lloyd's Register. Retrieved 20 February 2020.
  3. "Carnival DMagic Fact Sheet". Carnival Newsroom. Carnival Corporation. Retrieved 20 February 2020.
  4. "Carnival Magic". Fincantieri. Retrieved 19 April 2019.
  5. "Advanced Masterdata for the Vessel Carnival Magic". VesselTracker. 2012. Retrieved 25 March 2012.
  6. "Carnival Magic (927918)". Port State Information Exchange. United States Coast Guard.
  7. http://www.travelweekly.com/Cruise-Travel/St-Jude-employee-named-Carnival-Magic-godmother Wilkerson
  8. "Carnival magic (9378486)". Miramar Ship Index. Retrieved 29 December 2018.
  9. Peter Knego (22 March 2011). "Magic Off Monfalcone: Carnival Magic Completes Sea Trials". Maritime Matters. Retrieved 25 March 2012.
  10. "Carnival Magic laid; work starts Carnival Cruise Line's new flagship". Fincantieri. 12 January 2010. Retrieved 20 July 2013.
  11. Carnival Magic Deck Plan. Carnival.
  12. "Carnival Drydock Schedule". RyG's Cruise Guide. Retrieved 2016-01-26.
  13. "Carnival Magic to Sail Med". CruiseNotes. 19 January 2010. Retrieved 19 January 2010.
  14. Miami, Carnival Cruise LinePublic Relations Department 3655 N. W. 87th Ave (12 February 2015). "Carnival's Most Innovative Ship Yet, Carnival Vista, To Operate Year-Round Six- and Eight-Day Caribbean Cruises from Miami, Carnival Breeze and Carnival Liberty Reposition to Galveston".
  15. Line, Carnival Cruise. "Cruise Search | Find Cruises for 2018-2020 | Carnival Cruise Line". Carnival Cruise Line. Retrieved 2018-06-28.
  16. Staff writers (4 July 2013). "Man fell to his death from cabin balcony on Carnival cruise ship". KHOU. Archived from the original on 7 July 2013. Retrieved 1 June 2013.
  17. Lindsey Bever; Fred Barbash; Elahe Izadi (17 October 2014). "Mexico fails to grant access to cruise ship carrying Texas health worker". The Washington Post. Retrieved 17 October 2014.
  18. John Bacon (19 October 2014). "Cruise ship returns to Texas; passenger negative for Ebola". USA Today.
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