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GRAND PRINCESS (1998)
Service dates: 1998-2000
Shipping lines: PRINCESS CRUISES INC.
Ship type:
Passenger Ship.
Career
- 08.02.1994
- Order announced (as 'in the 90,000-ton range').
- 06.04.1994
- Announced to be the world's first 100,000-ton cruise ship.
- 04.10.1994
- Name announced.
- 20.05.1998
- Delivered as Grand Princess for Fairline Shipping International Corporation (Princess Cruise Lines Inc, managers).
- 27.05.1998
- Maiden voyage a cruise from Istanbul/Kusadasi/Piraeus/Venice/ Naples/Livorno/Monte Carlo/Barcelona.
- 29.09.1998
- Named in New York by film star Olivia de Havilland.
- 28.02.1999
- Lloyd’s Register classification withdrawn and reclassified with Registro Italiano Navale.
- 14.05.2000
- Registry transferred to Hamilton, Bermuda. Official number 731253, call sign ZCBU5.
- 23.10.2000
- P&O Princess Cruises plc demerged from The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company, therefore the vessel is no longer in Group service. Still reported in service with Carnival plc. Please refer to them directly for current vessel information.