Spirit-class cruise ship

Costa Atlantica in Miami

The Spirit class is a class of cruise ships built at the Kvaerner Masa-Yards Helsinki New Shipyard in Helsinki, Finland. The ships are operated by Carnival Cruise Lines, CSSC Carnival Cruise Shipping and Costa Cruises (a subsidiary of Miami-based Carnival Corporation). The six ships were built to the original Panamax form factor, allowing them to pass through the Panama Canal. This class has the smallest of the signature smoke stacks that Carnival has on their ships. Carnival's Spirit-class ships also feature a unique funnel design that integrates the skylight dome of the atrium.

In 2007 and 2009, and (built by Fincantieri) were introduced. The design of these ships are a hybrid between the Spirit class and the , creating the Vista/Spirit hybrid class. As of November 2022, Costa Luminosa (now Carnival Luminosa) is marketed by Carnival as a part of their Spirit class.

Ships

Built	Ship	Baseport	Tonnage	Flag	Notes	Image
Margaritaville at Sea
2000		Tampa, Florida	Template:GT		First Spirit-class ship in this line and first Spirit-class ship for Costa. Transferred to CSSC Carnival Cruise Shipping in 2020. Sold to Margaritaville at Sea in 2023.	File:Costa Atlantica 2010-05-20 1.jpg
Adora Cruises
2003		Tianjin, China Guangzhou, China Xiamen, China	Template:GT		Last Spirit-class ship for Costa. Transferred to CSSC Carnival Cruise Shipping in 2021.	File:Costamedarg.jpg
Carnival Cruise Line
2001		Sydney, Australia Seattle, Washington Mobile, Alabama	Template:GT		First Spirit-class ship for Carnival First ship to in the fleet to sail year round from Australia Previously based in Australia from 2012–2022	File:Carnival Spirit 04.jpg
2001		Baltimore, Maryland Tampa, Florida London, England Rome, Italy Barcelona, Spain	Template:GT		At one point, she was the flagship of Carnival	File:Carnival Pride in Cabo San Lucas.jpg
2002		Tampa, Florida Baltimore, Maryland Dover, England Galveston, Texas San Francisco, California	Template:GT		In 2009 collided with Enchantment of the Seas, which was already docked, in Cozumel, Mexico In 2019 collided with Carnival Glory, which was also already docked, in Cozumel, Mexico	File:Carnival Legend.jpg
2004		Long Beach (Los Angeles County), California San Francisco, California Galveston, Texas Tampa, Florida Dover, England Rome, Italy	Template:GT		Last Spirit-class ship in this line and last Spirit-class ship for Carnival	File:Carnival Miracle April 5 2017.png

See also

• – a similar Panamax ship operated by P&O Cruises.
• and – A similar set of Panamax ships operated by Princess Cruises
• s – a similar class of Panamax ships operated by Royal Caribbean International
• Signature-class cruise ship – a similar class of Panamax ships operated by Holland America Line

External links

• Carnival Cruise Lines
• Picture of one of these ships leaving the drydock: [1] [2]