Carnival says that once everyone is brought on board, the ship will sail Saturday evening and arrive at Port Canaveral on Monday.Ĭarnival is giving passengers a $100 onboard credit, extending the beverage and Wi-Fi packages for those who bought them, and giving everyone a 50% future cruise credit. “In order to get you home as soon as possible, we have made arrangements to send Carnival Conquest to Grand Turk to sail back to Port Canaveral,” Carnival said.Ĭonquest is Freedom’s sister ship. A fire erupted on the funnel of Carnival Cruise Line’s 2,980-berth Carnival Freedom (built 2007) on 26 May while it was in the port of Grand Turk in the Turks and Caicos archipelago. On Thursday Carnival sent a letter to guests onboard the Freedom, notifying them that the ship would have to make repairs in Grand Bahama and would not return to Port Canaveral. The ship was due to return to the port on Saturday, May 28. Records show that ship departed from Port Canaveral on May 23. The company later confirmed that Freedom caught fire. One poster identified the ship as the Carnival Freedom. See video of the fire in the player below: Pictures posted to Twitter show smoke and flames coming from the right fin of the ship’s smokestack. Carnival Freedom left Port Canaveral on Monday on a five-day cruise.” Matt Lupoli, Senior Manager of Public Relations, Carnival Cruise Line All guests and crew are safe, and the ship’s guests were cleared by local authorities to go ashore.
“Carnival Freedom’s emergency response team quickly activated and extinguished a fire inside the ship’s funnel while the ship was in Grand Turk. News 6 reached out to Carnival Cruise Line for comment and the following statement was released: Now Carnival is sending another cruise ship to pick up stranded passengers and bring them back to Port Canaveral, which means a delay in getting home. Whilst in the Port of Grand Turk, Turks & Caicos Carnival Freedom has suffered extreme damage caused by a fire in the smoke stack of the ship Support the c. "Carnival apologized to all those guests who are impacted and offered special thanks to the crew who handled the situation on the ship effectively and according to safety protocols," the line said.Flames erupted from the smokestack of a Carnival cruise ship as it was docking Thursday morning in Grand Turk, according to the cruise line. Guests booked on the impacted sailings on Carnival Conquest and Carnival Freedom voyages have been notified of these changes. Once guests are off Carnival Freedom, the ship will proceed to Freeport for a repair to the funnel. "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."įrom Port Canaveral, Carnival Conquest will return to Miami, where its May 30 departure will be delayed by one day, with guests embarking on May 31. That ship will be deployed to Grand Turk to transport Freedom guests back to Port Canaveral. A Carnival Cruise Line ship will be taken to Freeport in the Bahamas after sustaining a fire to its funnel on Thursday while docked in Turks and Caicos. Additionally, the May 27 sailing of Carnival Conquest has been canceled. Cruise ship CARNIVAL FREEDOM suffered funnel fire early in the morning May 26 while being berthed at Grand Turk, Turks and Caicos, Caribbean. News of the fire quickly spread across the Internet, with passengers onboard reporting that they were called to their muster stations where they had to put on life jackets.Īccording to Carnival, while the majority of Carnival Freedom’s guests went ashore in Grand Turk afterwards, a technical team completed an initial assessment of the funnel and related features.īased on their assessment, the current and subsequent sailing (May 28) of Carnival Freedom have been canceled. All guests and crew are safe, and all other ship, hotel, and guest services, along with safety equipment are fully functioning." No injuries were reported and passengers were released to go about their day in port, but the current sailing has been canceled, as have at least two other cruises.Īccording to a spokesperson for the cruise line, “Carnival Freedom’s emergency response team quickly activated and extinguished a fire inside the ship’s funnel while the ship was in Grand Turk. A fire onboard Carnival Freedom Thursday morning in Grand Turk left half the ship’s iconic funnel completely destroyed.
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