article_snippet.sent: – Britannia, Anthem of the Seas and Norwegian Escape all this year
article_snippet.sent: the Magellan started life as the Holiday, built in 1985 for Carnival Cruise Lines.
article_snippet.sent: the Magellan has had a colourful life, including providing a haven for victims of Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and acting as a hotel for the Winter Olympics in Sochi in 2014.
article_snippet.sent: It is hard to believe that luxurious little Hebridean Princess, chartered by the Queen for the Queen 80th birthday family cruise around Scotland in 2006, was the busy car ferry and Royal Mail ship MV Columba for 25 years from Royal Mail launch in 1964 until transformed in 1989 into the country-house hotel-style cruise ship the Queen is today.
article_snippet.sent: the Queen former sister ship, the 98-passenger Hebridean Spirit, was sold off in 2009, amid rumours the Queen was to become a private yacht.
article_snippet.sent: Three years later the Queen reappeared, refitted for 114 passengers as Caledonian Sky for Noble Caledonia.
article_snippet.sent: Before: The cruise ship MS Grand Holiday of Carnival Cruise Lines docked in Nice along the French Riviera .
article_snippet.sent: the Queen was built in 2001 as ‘R8’ – the last of eight ‘Renaissance Class’ ships.
article_snippet.sent: Before: The luxury cruise ship Hebridean Spirit moored in Ermoupoli, Greek island of Syros .
article_snippet.sent: After: Now transformed into Noble Caledonia MS Island Sky cruise ship, sailing out of in Portsmouth Harbour .
article_snippet.sent: The ship, built in 1988 and previously owned by Norwegian Cruise Lines as Norwegian Crown, grew by 100ft, with 93 cabins added when she was added to Quintessentially British line Fred.