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Carnival Sunshine is a ship from cruise of the Carnival Cruise Line, renamed after the works of transformation at the Fincantieri plants of Trieste, was previously known as Carnival Destiny.

First ship of Destiny Class, registered in the Bahama, is mainly used for cruises in the Caribbean.

Carnival Destiny, the ship of the records
To build it was necessary 20 months and 20,000 tons of steel, about three times the weight of the Eiffel Tower, when it entered service, to whose commands was the Italian Giovanni Gallo, with its 101.353 tsl and 11.142 tpl was the largest ship from cruise of the world, the first to cross the threshold of the 100,000 tons of gross stazza (measure of volume, not of weight) Fincantieri alone 7744

the Destiny Carnival in its initial configuration had 1 slide from 65 m, 4 swimming pools, 7 hydromassage tanks (for antonomasia often called "Jacuzzi", surname of the Italian inventors who first realized and trademark of factory), 16 bridges (12 for guests use), 27 lifts of which 18 for passenger use and nine service, 1,500 seats at the Palladium theater; had a total occupation of 1,321 cabins of which 754 external Already at the end of December 1996 had reached another record, that of number of people never transported in a single cruise, hosting 3.269 crocieristi.

Its width of 35.48 m did not allow the passage in the Panama Canal.

Opening trip
Carnival Destiny departed for his inaugural journey from Venice on 24 October 1996, making a stop in Malaga on 29th, then continuing for transatlantic navigation for promotional purposes for the American crocieristico market, making a route first on Boston, where he arrived on Thursday 7 November, arriving in New York on 11th where, after passing the bridge of Verrazzano and having entered the Hudson, attracted to Pier 88 of the cruise terminal to the side of the carrier

Modernisation
The ship has been refitted several times to stay competitive and always ahead of time. In 2005 he saw the addition of a space for the entertainment of the boys, in 2008 new common spaces, the addition of 14 cabins to bridge 10, and in 2010 the installation of the Car