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Carnival Corporation’s P&O Cruises Australia announced the accelerated retirement for one of its cruise ships as part of Carnival’s previously announced plan to remove older, less efficient cruise ships from its fleet. The cruise ship, the Pacific Dawn, is rumored to have been sold for further service.
A quick tour around an 'Inside' wheelchair accessible cabin aboard P&O's Pacific Dawn. This one is room A124, and all of the accessible 'Inside' and 'Outside. 2007–2020: Pacific Dawn. Following an extensive refurbishment, Regal Princess was renamed Pacific Dawn and christened on 8 November 2007 by Olympic gold medalist Cathy Freeman. In December 2009, Pacific Dawn was moved to her new home port in Hamilton to allow Pacific Jewel and Pacific Pearl to be based in Sydney.
According to P&O Australia’s press release, “It had previously been announced the 1,546-guest Pacific Dawn was due to leave the P&O Cruises fleet in February next year as part of the transformation of the fleet over time. However, she will now leave in the coming weeks to facilitate her sale.”
Originally, the sale of the Pacific Dawn had been announced earlier in 2020 to become part of the UK-based cruise line Cruise and Maritime Voyages. She was part of a two-ship deal along with the Pacific Aria (built in 1994 as the Ryndam) with P&O scheduled to deliver both ships early in 2021. Carnival had included these ships in its earlier announcements about the number of ships it said would be departing the fleet, but CMV later went into administration in the UK. The cruise ships CMV marketed, although owned by a separate company, were recently scheduled for auction to pay outstanding debts.
The former chief executive of CMV has been working to re-establish the cruise company. He recently agreed to buy some of the assets of the travel agency business, including the database and reservation systems, from the administrator.
Built at Fincantieri and introduced in 1991, the 70,000 gross ton cruise ship had been among the largest cruise ships in the world. She operated for more than 15 years for Princess Cruises as the Regal Princess before being transferred to Australia in 2007. At the time, she was the first large, modern cruise ship to be operated in the Australian market.
Sture Myrmell, president of P&O Cruises Australia, apologized to passengers expecting to sail with the ship during its farewell season. Having been P&O’s head of hotel operations when Pacific Dawn first joined the fleet, he said that he was disappointed that they would not be able to have a farewell sailing for the ship. He, however, noted her significant role in the Australian cruise market.
Since sailing on her first cruise from Australia in November 2007, Myrmell said she had carried 1.2 million passengers on a total of 601 cruises and traveled a total of 1.2 million nautical miles. She was homeported in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, and Auckland over the past 13 years. The Karnika, operated by Jalesh Cruises in India is a sister ship to the Pacific Dawn. The ships had operated together in Australia until the then Pacific Jewel was sold and delivered to her new owners in 2019.
The Pacific Dawn, along with the Pacific Aria, was repositioned from Australia to an initial lay up in Manila. In August, the two ships sailed across the Indian Ocean and through the Suez Canal repositioning to lay-up off Cyprus. That had led to speculation of an imminent sale or possibly the scrapping of the two ships.
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P&O Australia currently has canceled all cruises to December 2020 and when it resumes service plans to add two larger cruise ships that were previously operated by Princess Cruises. There has been no announcement about the fate of the Pacific Aria.
Saying that they were unable to obtain insurance for the concept of a community living aboard a former cruise ship, the organizers of the project have sold the former P&O cruise ship, the Pacific Dawn, for scrap. Renamed the Satoshi, they had planned to anchor the 1991-built cruise ship full-time off Panama.
In an announcement sent to potential investors, Ocean Builder’s CEO Grant Romundt wrote, “We will not be able to proceed because of archaic big insurance companies that cannot adapt to innovative new ideas.” He said that no protection and indemnity insurance company will insure the Satoshi. Without insurance it cannot have a crew, which means the ship would lose its class rating and flag and any possibility of running any of the onboard businesses.
'Assuming it would be easy to get insurance to use the ship as a stationary residential cruise ship was incorrect,” wrote Romundt.
The Satoshi, which is currently sailing from Gibraltar, where it had been overhauled, to Panama was sold for scrap on December 18. The ship will reach Panama next week where it will fuel and be supplied before continuing to a scrapyard in India.
Ocean Builders, which is also developing “floating, off-grid seapod homes,” announced the launch of the former cruise ship community at the beginning of October and took delivery of the Pacific Dawn on November 5. The company had begun an auction process to sell the staterooms as residences saying it would become a technology and innovation hub for entrepreneurs, expats, digital nomads, and cryptocurrency companies that want to test their technology in a controlled environment. Besides the residences, Ocean Builders said vacation rentals would be made available on the ship and they were seeking businesses to run dining, entertainment, and other services aboard the ship. The plan was to anchor in the Gulf of Panama and start receiving the first residents as early as January 2021.
Built in 1991, at the time she entered service she was one of the largest cruise ships in the world. She had been ordered by the Vlasov Group for its Sitmar Cruises and was built by Fincantieri along with a sister ship. Before the ship was completed, Sitmar was acquired by P&O and merged into the California-based Princess Cruises. She entered service as the Regal Princess along with her sister ship the Crown Princess.
Beyond their size, the two ships were notable for their unique external style that was developed by famed Italian architect Renzo Piano. Responsible for many famous designs, including the Pompidou Center in Paris, Piano gave the ships a curved shape and a domed lounge above the bridge that was said to be inspired by a dolphin swimming through the water.
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As the Regal Princess, she sailed for Princess Cruises till 2007 when she went to P&O Cruises Australia as the Pacific Dawn. She cruised in the South Pacific operating alongside her sister ship which joined her sailing from Australia starting in 2009 as the Pacific Jewel.
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In an odd twist of fate, the sister ships will end their careers at the same time both on the beaches of Alang, India. The Pacific Jewel was sold and in 2019 became the Karnika sailing for the startup company Jalesh Cruises in India. Blaming the pandemic, Jalesh went out of business earlier this fall and the Karnika recently arrived in India to be scrapped.