MS Magellan (ship, 1985)
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MS ''Holiday'' (also known as ''Grand Holiday'' and ''Magellan'') was a , which was formerly owned by
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as the ''Holiday'' and
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as the ''Grand Holiday''. She last sailed for Cruise & Maritime Voyages from Spring 2015 to 2020 as the ''Magellan'' until Cruise & Maritime Voyages ceased operations due to the COVID-19 pandemic. She was then sold at auction and was scrapped at
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, India in early 2021.


Ship history


Service as ''Holiday'' and ''Grand Holiday''

MS ''Holiday'' was built by
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in
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,
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and entered service for Carnival Cruise Lines on 13 July 1985. The ship was the first out of the three ''Holiday''-class ships built for the line. The ship's condition had been in decline, until 2003 when she was sent into dry dock and renovated. In 2005, during
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, she was taken out of service to be used as temporary housing for the victims of the storm. After leaving Mississippi, she again went to dry dock for an additional three weeks of renovations. New carpeting and plumbing were added and repairs to the propellers were made, amongst other improvements. ''Holiday'' resumed her normal route in the Western Caribbean, sailing from
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until November 2009 when ''Holiday'' was retired from the Carnival fleet. She was later transferred to the fleet of
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, another cruise line owned by
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as MS ''Grand Holiday''. The distinctive Carnival-style funnel was kept and repainted. In April 2010, she underwent dry dock refurbishment and was then transferred to the
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fleet. Sailing as ''Grand Holiday'' began on 18 May 2010 The ship was transformed into a four-star floating hotel in Port Sochi Imeretinskiy during the
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from 5 to 24 February 2014. However, in the same year Ibero Cruises was absorbed into
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. Costa had little interest in keeping the ''Grand Holiday'' in service, and she was laid up before being sold off.


Service as ''Magellan''

On 3 November 2014, British cruise line Cruise & Maritime Voyages announced that ''Grand Holiday'' would be joining their fleet in Spring 2015 under the name ''Magellan''. She began cruising out of London Tilbury,
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and
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commencing 15 March 2015 and also
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on 12 July 2015. In 2018 she underwent dry dock with Damen Shiprepair in
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. In 2019, she began cruising out of
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.


Disposal as ''Mages''

On 20 July 2020 South Quay Travel Limited, which traded under the name 'Cruise & Maritime Voyages', was placed into administration. On 19 October 2020, CW Kellock & Co. London auctioned ''Magellan''. The Greek company
Seajets Seajets is a Greek/ Cypriot ferry company founded in 1989 by Marios Iliopoulos and his father Panagiotis. Seajets operates a fleet of passenger, freight ferry and cruiseferry services in the Aegean Sea. Seajets is one of Greece's leading ferry co ...
won the auction, with the declared intention of converting her into a floating hotel at
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for the
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. However, citing high operating costs, they instead resold her for scrap. She was renamed ''Mages'' and sailed to Alang, India, for scrapping with anchorage at
Bhavnagar Bhavnagar is a city and the headquarters of Bhavnagar district in the Indian state of Gujarat. It was founded in 1723 by Bhavsinhji Gohil. It was the capital of Bhavnagar State, which was a princely state before it was merged into the Dominion ...
on 23 January 2021; the ship was moved in front of Alang on 28 January waiting for high tide and was finally beached in the early morning of 30 January 2021. Scrapping started on 21 June 2021.


Gallery

File:MS Holiday Carnival Cruise Ship (4167362850).jpg, ''Holiday'' File:Carnival Holiday docked in Cozumel 03-2004.jpg, ''Holiday'' doocked in
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, March 2004 File:FEMA - 18046 - Photograph by Mark Wolfe taken on 10-29-2005 in Mississippi.jpg, ''Holiday'' in
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, October 29, 2010 File:MS Holiday 2008.jpg, ''Holiday'' at the port of
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, Mexico File:Grand Holiday - Marseille.JPG, ''Grand Holiday'' docked in
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File:14-01-24-перейти в Пальма-де-Майорка-RalfR-DSCN1209-135 (Grand Holiday).jpg, ''Grand Holiday'' docked in
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,
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. NCL's cruise ship ''Norwegian Jade'' can be seen in the background. File:CMV Magellan Anchored in Flåm 20150617 1.jpg, ''Magellan'' anchored in
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File:NO-bergen-magellan.jpg, ''Magellan'' File:Stavanger, Norway 20170522 164032.jpg, ''Magelan'' in
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,
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on May 22 .2017


References

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