'Carnival Freedom debuts water park, other upgrades'.

^ 'Third Carnival Cruise Ship of 2019 Completes Dry Dock'.

'Kathy Ireland christens Carnival Freedom'.

^ Spencer Brown, Carolyn (February 28, 2007).

^ '13 Reasons Why You Should Cruise on Carnival Freedom'.

The ship resumed normal service on June 11, 2022, with the altered funnel. Any additional parking fees at the Port Canaveral parking garage were waived, and Carnival would cover fees related to changed flights up to $200 per person. As for compensation, Carnival gave a $100 per stateroom onboard credit and a 50 percent off future cruise credit. Following the incident, Carnival Freedom underwent an emergency drydock in Grand Bahama for repairs, which included the removal of the funnel's damaged wings. Carnival Conquest was scheduled to embark passengers from Carnival Freedom as the ship would not be returning to Port Canaveral. It was announced in the evening of May 26, 2022, by Carnival through a letter to guests that the Carnival Freedom would remain in Grand Turk with passengers on board. Guests and crew members were allowed to go ashore, as originally planned in Grand Turk. Significant damage was sustained to part of the funnel, on the starboard side. The fire was extinguished with no injuries reported. On May 26, 2022, Carnival Freedom suffered a large fire in her funnel while she was docked in Grand Turk. The cruise line told the media that the smoke was caused by an engine turbocharger malfunction. In 2019, a photographer took a picture of the ship emitting black smoke in Cayman Islands. The ship will reposition to Seattle and sail at Alaska in 2021. Carnival Freedom resumed port calls to Grand Bahama in November 2019 when Hurricane Dorian ravaged the country. 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. In the summer of 2008, she returned to Europe and sailed in the Mediterranean again. Areas of operation Ĭarnival 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 2019 March, the ship debuted with its water park and major renovation. Ĭarnival Freedom entered a three-week routine drydock in Freeport, Bahamas on Mafor refurbishment and completed another dry dock in March 2019. The ship has 1,150 crew, 1,487 cabins and is able to carry 2,974 passengers traveling at a speed of 21 knots (39 km/h 24 mph). The ship is also one of the first of the Carnival Cruise Line fleet to get a complete to maintain of the kids’ program. 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. The ship was built by Fincantieri at its Marghera shipyard in Venice, Italy. The May 28 departure of Carnival Freedom from Port Canaveral has been cancelled. Guests booked on the impacted sailings on Carnival Conquest and Carnival Freedom voyages have been notified of these changes.Carnival Freedom at night on March 3, 2008. Once guests are transferred from Carnival Freedom, the ship will proceed to Freeport for a repair to the funnel. Carnival Conquest will then return to Miami, and her May 30 departure will be shortened by one day, with guests embarking on May 31. Carnival Conquest will arrive to Grand Turk on Saturday, May 28 and guests aboard Carnival Freedom will transfer to Carnival Conquest for the voyage back to Port Canaveral, arriving on Monday, May 30. Carnival Conquest’s next cruise, departing May 27 from Miami has been cancelled and that ship will be deployed to Grand Turk to transport Freedom guests back to Port Canaveral. There are 2504 guests and 972 crew on board. While the majority of Carnival Freedom’s guests went ashore in Grand Turk today, Carnival’s technical team completed an initial assessment of the funnel and related features, and the shoreside team completed a plan to get our guests back to Port Canaveral. On Thursday morning while in port at Grand Turk, Carnival Freedom’s emergency response team quickly activated and extinguished a fire inside the ship’s funnel. All guests and crew are safe, and all other ship, hotel, and guest services, along with safety equipment are fully functioning.

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