MS Jubilee

Jubilee docked at Miami, Florida in 2000.
History
Name:	Jubilee (1986–2004) Pacific Sun (2004–2012) Henna (2012–2017) Hen (2017)
Owner:	1986–2004: Carnival Cruise Line 2004–2011: P&O Cruises Australia 2011-2016: Triton International Investment Co Ltd[1]
Operator:	1986–2004: Carnival Cruise Lines 2004–2012: P&O Cruises Australia 2012–2015: HNA Tourism Cruise
Port of registry:	1986–1996: Monrovia,  Liberia 1996–2000: Panama,  Panama 2000–2007: Nassau,  Bahamas 2007–2010: London,  United Kingdom 2010-2017: Valletta,  Malta
Builder:	Kockums Varv, Malmö, Sweden
Cost:	US$134 million
Yard number:	596
Launched:	26 October 1985
Acquired:	June 1986
Maiden voyage:	6 July 1986
In service:	6 July 1986
Out of service:	6 June 2016
Identification:	Call sign: 9HA2479 IMO number: 8314122 MMSI number: 248708000
Fate:	Sold for scrap, May 2017[2]
Notes:	[3][4][5]
General characteristics
Class and type:	Holiday-class cruise ship
Tonnage:	47,262 GT 6,405 DWT
Length:	223.4 m (732 ft 11 in)
Beam:	28.2 m (92 ft 6 in)
Draft:	7.5 m (24 ft 7 in)
Decks:	9 passenger decks[6]
Installed power:	Two 7-cylinder Sulzer diesel engines 23,520 kW (combined)
Propulsion:	Two propellers
Speed:	21.7 knots (40.2 km/h; 25.0 mph)
Capacity:	1,486 passengers
Crew:	670

The MS Jubilee (also known as Pacific Sun and Henna) was a cruise ship that was originally built for Carnival Cruise Line. She was the second out of three ships to be built for Carnival's Holiday class of cruise ships. She was last owned by the Chinese company HNA Cruise Company, Limited around the West Pacific region. At 47,000 tons, Ju was a medium-sized ship, and was the first and largest luxury cruise liner in mainland China, with 739 passenger cabins and a maximum passenger capacity of 1,965, including nine suites with balconies, 432 ocean-view staterooms and 298 interior staterooms.^[7]

History

Henna was built in 1986 by Kockums Varv, Malmö, Sweden, for Carnival Cruise Line as Jubilee, along with near-sister ship Celebration. The other near-sister ship of the class, Holiday, was built earlier by Aalborg Værft in Aalborg, Denmark.

In 2004, the vessel was transferred to P&O Cruises Australia and renamed Pacific Sun. Pacific Sun arrived in Australia in 9 November 2004, and began year-round cruises from Sydney to the South Pacific and Tropical North Queensland. From late 2007, she was based at Brisbane, and was then the largest year-round liner to be based in Queensland. After receiving a multimillion-dollar makeover, she sailed in all white colours, like P&O's other ships, along with new amenities.^[8] Pacific Sun was the only ship of three sisters (with Grand Celebration and Grand Holiday) whose funnel was changed upon leaving the Carnival Cruise Lines fleet; her sister's funnels were simply painted over and not changed, while Sun had both Carnival's iconic wings and a part of shielding removed. Carnival's first new build ship, the slightly older Tropicale (Now MS Ocean Dream), also had her Carnival funnel removed, and replaced with Costa Cruises's round stove-pipe funnel, which she still retained until the end of her career.

In late July 2008, 42 passengers were injured in a storm.^[9] The event became widely known when video footage was reposted on the internet two years later.^[10]

On 18 December 2011, P&O announced that Pacific Sun would leave its fleet in July 2012.^[11] Her farewell cruise was an 8-day roundtrip from Portside Wharf in Brisbane, Australia, and stopping at Nouméa, Lifou in New Caledonia, and Port Vila in Vanuatu with three days at sea. Pacific Sun had completed between 314 and 332 cruises, with 2,707 nights at sea and an estimated 586,000 passengers carried.^[6]

The ship was sold to Chinese interests under the newly formed cruise line, HNA Cruises. On 13 September 2012, the ship was renamed Henna. The ship made her maiden voyage under Chinese ownership on 26 January 2013 from Sanya to Vietnam. During its operation with HNA Cruises, the ship sailed to locations in Vietnam and in South Korea .^[7][12]

In September 2013 the ship was detained at a port on the South Korean island of Jeju after Chinese shipping service company Jiangsu Shagang International applied for a seizure. After several days stuck on board, the 1,659 passengers were flown home via HNA Group's China Hainan Airlines, leaving their cruise uncompleted but safe.^[13]

In November 2015, HNA shut down its cruise ship operation after three years of losing money due to newer vessels being deployed to the region. Since the Henna's last cruise with HNA, she was laid up and was placed for sale for $35 million USD.^[14][15] With there being no interested buyers, Henna was sold for scrapping in Alang, India, it was photographed at the ship breaking yard in Alang as the Hen, ready to be scrapped on 1 May 2017.^[16][17] By late June, scrapping of the Hen began.^[18] By late August, half of the vessel has been scrapped.^[19] Scrapping of the vessel was finished by late 2017.

See also

• List of cruise ships

References

External links

• Henna page at HNA Tourism Cruise and Yacht Management
• Pacific Sun historical page at P&O Cruises (mirror)
• Professional photographs from shipspotting.com

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