Disney Magic
 
Disney Magic at Cabo San Lucas, Mexico.
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| History | |
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| Name: | Disney Magic |
| Owner: | Disney Cruise Line (The Walt Disney Company) |
| Operator: | Disney Cruise Line (The Walt Disney Company) |
| Port of registry: |
Nassau,  Bahamas
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| Route: | 4 Night Caribbean Cruises,5,6,7 and 8 Night Western Caribbean Cruises,2,3,4 and 8 Night Bahamian Cruises,4,5,7,9 and 12 night Mediterranean Cruises, Special Cruises |
| Ordered: | 1996 |
| Builder: | Fincantieri Marghera, Italy |
| Cost: | US$400 million |
| Yard number: | 5989 |
| Launched: | April 17, 1997 |
| Christened: | 1998 |
| Maiden voyage: | July 30, 1998 |
| In service: | 1998-Present |
| Identification: | IMO number: 9126807 |
| Status: | In Service |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Magic-class (Disney) |
| Type: | Cruise Ship |
| Tonnage: | 83,338 GT |
| Length: | 984 ft (300 m) |
| Beam: | 106 ft (32 m) |
| Draft: | 25.3 ft (7.7 m) |
| Decks: | 11 |
| Installed power: | 43,000 kW (57,600 hp) |
| Propulsion: | Diesel-Electric; *5 × Sulzer 16ZAV40S; two shafts |
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| Capacity: | 2,700 passengers |
| Crew: | 945 |
Disney Magic is a cruise ship owned and operated by the Disney Cruise Line, a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company. She has 11 public decks, can accommodate 2,700 passengers in 875 staterooms, and has a crew of approximately 950. The interior of Disney Magic is decorated in the Art Deco style, in contrast to her sister ship, Disney Wonder which is decorated in the Art Nouveau style.
The ship has twenty bright yellow lifeboats which, along with the black, red, and white colors of the ship itself, match the colors of Mickey Mouse. This change from the standard safety orange took a waiver of international maritime rules. As with other Disney cruise ships, the ship's horn blast plays an excerpt from Disney's famous flagship tune, '"When You Wish upon a Star". The Disney Magic's Godmother is Patricia Disney, former wife of Walt Disney's nephew, Roy E. Disney.
Disney had cruise ship designs drawn up by February 1994.Disney Cruise Line in 1995 commissioned Disney Magic and Disney Wonder from Fincantieri in Italy. The ship was built in two halves with the bow built at Fincatieri's Ancona shipyard and the aft at their Marghera shipyard. The planned maiden voyage was for March 12, 1998. In January 1997, the first ticket for the Magic's first trip was raffled off on Lifetime channel, while ticket sales would begin in September 1997. With continuing delays on the MS Rotterdam kept additional workers from the Magic. Thus by November 1997, the cruise line rescheduled the ship's initial voyage to April 30, 1998. Further delays, from suppliers and weather conditions, at Fincantieri forced back the maiden voyage of Disney Magic a few more months. The bow was towed to the Marghera shipyard where the halves were joined.
With livery and design evocative of the RMS Queen Mary, the Disney Line Disney Magic set sail on its maiden voyage on July 30, 1998, out of Port Canaveral as the cruise line's launch ship. The ships initial cruises were to Nassau, Bahamas with a stop at Castaway Cay over three to four nights.
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