Carnival Legend

Southern Caribbean Cruise
November 10^th, 2002

Carnival Legend is one of the most spacious ships of the contemporary cruise sector Carnival Legend carries a total of 2,680 passengers (lower beds: 2,124 passengers) in a total of 1,062 staterooms. The maximum crew capacity is 961. Main dimensions are; length overall 292.5m, maximum breadth 38.8m (over the bridge wings), breadth at dwl 32.2m and draught at dwl 7.8m.

Carnival Legend and her sister ships set a new standard for balconied accommodations. Balconied staterooms have become a much sought after amenity with today's passengers and the task was to meet that demand in the design. In designing a more narrow superstructure, one more deck with passenger staterooms could be added. In the superstructure most of the staterooms face the sea, and the technical spaces, including the air conditioning machinery, are placed in the center of the ship, behind the passenger corridors.

The relative number of outside passenger staterooms and staterooms with balcony is very high; 80% of all the staterooms are outside staterooms and 70% of all the staterooms have a balcony. All the prefabricated staterooms have been manufactured by Piikkio Works Oy.

In all, Carnival Legend features twelve passenger decks plus four decks below for machinery and crew spaces. The Atrium stretches over ten decks. The Follies main lounge, which is three decks high, seats 1,170 guests. A new design feature for this "Spirit-class" ships is the location of the secondary lounge/night club, Firebird Lounge, underneath the main lounge. The main restaurant, Truffles Restaurant, is two decks high and seats altogether some 1,300 guests. In order to achieve this, the galley was positioned below the restaurant using escalators for service.

The Golden Fleece is a "steakhouse-style" supper club located at the top of a soaring ten-deck-high atrium and housed under a red-tinted glass dome that forms the forward portion of the Carnival Legend's massive winged funnel. The Unicorn Caf� behind the main pool area is a casual Lido-area has a variety of special dining areas for breakfast, lunch and dinner buffets, and 24-hour pizza and ice cream.

There is the two-level health and fitness center, the Fountain of Youth Spa, four swimming pools, one featuring a retractable dome, five whirlpools, a large casino and more than ten themed bars, lounges and public areas for activities and entertainment. In addition there is a shopping area, a wedding chapel, large facilities for children and youngsters. There is also a library, a conference center and a cascading water slide.

The central idea of legendary figures and locations - both historical and mythical - which inspired the design of the public rooms aboard Carnival Legend, represents the latest instalment of what Joe Farcus, Carnival's ship architect, calls "entertainment architecture." The dramatic legendary interiors exist in painting, architecture, and d�cor throughout Carnival Legend.

Carnival Legend has been built by the yard together with a large number of turn-key and other suppliers. Production begun in October 2000, and the assembly of the hull begun in the covered newbuilding dock in April 2001. Carnival Legend was launched in December 2001, after which the cruise ship was transferred to the outfitting quay in front of the yard's outfitting terminal. The successful sea trials took place in June this year. Carnival Legend was built in less than two years, which is a short time for this size of a cruise ship.

Carnival Legend has a diesel-electric machinery, consisting of six W�rtsil� 9L46D diesel engines, with a total power of 62,370 kW, each connected to an alternator producing electricity to the ship's main electric network. The propulsion consists of two azimuthing electric Azipod(r) propulsion units, with a power of 17.6 MW each. Carnival Legend has three 1.91 MW tunnel thrusters in the bow. The service speed is 22 knots.

In addition to major components, main diesel engines, and auxiliary machinery and equipment, propulsion system, electrical motors, hotel and restaurant equipment, the nearly 1,600 cabins, the following figures give an idea of the magnitude of the construction and outfitting task of a cruise ship of this size; There are some 40,000 light points onboard, some 2000 km (more than 1,200 miles) of cables and 350 km (220 miles) of piping, some 7,000 automation points onboard monitoring all the ships functions and systems, some 4 300 loudspeakers, 2 200 telephones and more than 500 000 electrical connections. The ship is put together from more than 100 large grand blocks, weighing up to 450 tons, which are extensively pre-outfitted. Designing of ships is today completely computer-based, and computer automated manufacturing is applied were practical, as for cutting the steel plates. But drawings are still needed. In building Carnival Legend, more than 6,000 drawings were required.

From ornate glass vases and colorful paintings and bronze statues, the artwork featured aboard enhances the ship's dramatic interiors. Included among the diverse, multi-million-dollar collection are 70 decorative vases and candleholders by Czech glass artist Borek Sipek. A series of bronze statues in the Pool area have been created by sculptor Calman Shemi. Adorning the Carnival Legend's stair landings and staterooms murals by British artist Andrea Tana.

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