Festivale
cruise ship
Current position
No live position received yet. Identity and particulars below.
Identity & particulars
- Name
- Festivale
- IMO number
- 5367623
- MMSI
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- Call sign
- —
- Flag
- —
- Vessel type
- cruise ship
- Gross tonnage
- —
- Deadweight (DWT)
- —
- Length overall
- 231.7 m
- Beam
- 27.5 m
- Year built
- 1961
- Builder
- John Brown & Company
- Registered owner
- —
- Operator
- —
Particulars are enriched from public sources as they become available. Position & identity are derived live from AIS.
About Festivale
RMS Transvaal Castle was a British ocean liner built by John Brown & Company, Clydebank, Scotalnd for the Union-Castle Line for its mail service between Southampton and Durban. In 1966 she was sold to the South Africa-based Safmarine and renamed S.A. Vaal for further service on the same route. Following cessation of the service between the UK and South Africa in 1977 the ship was sold to Carnival Cruise Line and rebuilt in Japan as the cruise ship SS Festivale, re-entering service in 1978. In 1996 she was chartered to Dolphin Cruise Line and renamed IslandBreeze. In 1998 the ship was sold to Premier Cruise Line, which renamed her The Big Red Boat III. Following the bankruptcy of Premier Cruise Line in 2000, The Big Red Boat III was laid up until 2003 when she was sold to scrappers in Alang, India. She was renamed The Big Red Boat for her final voyage to the scrapyard.
Summary from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA.
Frequently asked questions
- Where is Festivale now?
- Festivale has not transmitted a live position recently. Its identity and particulars are kept on this page, and its position will appear here the moment it is detected on AIS again.
- What kind of ship is Festivale?
- Festivale is a cruise ship, built in 1961 by John Brown & Company. The vessel is 231.7 m long with a beam of 27.5 m.
- Has Festivale been detained or sanctioned?
- No detentions or sanctions for Festivale appear in the public sources Seadar tracks (USCG PSIX inspections and the OFAC SDN list).