Pacific Sun (ship)
Henna as the Pacific Sun with the tall ship James Craig in Darling Harbour on December 19, 2010.
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| Builder: | Kockums Varv, Malmö, Sweden |
| Cost: | US$134 million |
| Yard number: | 596 |
| Launched: | 26 October 1985 |
| Acquired: | June 1986 |
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| In service: | 6 July 1986 |
| Out of service: | June 6, 2016 |
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| Status: | For sale, laid up |
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| Class and type: | Holiday-class cruise ship |
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| Length: | 223.4 m (733 ft) |
| Beam: | 28.2 m (92 ft 6 in) |
| Draft: | 7.5 m (24 ft 7 in) |
| Decks: | 9 passenger decks |
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| Propulsion: | Two propellers |
| Speed: | 21.7 knots (40.2 km/h; 25.0 mph) |
| Capacity: | 1,486 passengers |
| Crew: | 670 |
MS Henna is a Holiday-class cruise ship owned by the Chinese company HNA Cruise Company, Limited around the West Pacific region. At 47,000 tons, Henna is a medium-sized ship, and was the first and largest luxury cruise liner in mainland China, with 739 passenger cabins and a maximum passenger capacity of 1,965, including nine suites with balconies, 432 ocean-view staterooms and 298 interior staterooms.
Henna was built in 1986 by Kockums Varv, Malmö, Sweden, for Carnival Cruise Line as Jubilee, along with near-sister ship Celebration. The other near-sister ship of the class, Holiday, was built earlier by Aalborg Værft in Aalborg, Denmark.
In 2004, the vessel was transferred to P&O Cruises Australia and renamed Pacific Sun. Pacific Sun arrived in Australia in November 9, 2004, and began year-round cruises from Sydney to the South Pacific and Tropical North Queensland. From late 2007, she was based at Brisbane, and was then the largest year-round liner to be based in Queensland. After receiving a multimillion-dollar makeover, she sailed in all white colours, like P&O's other ships, along with new amenities.Pacific Sun was the only ship of three sisters (with Grand Celebration and Grand Holiday) whose funnel was changed upon leaving the Carnival Cruise Lines fleet; her sister's funnels were simply painted over and not changed, while Sun had both Carnival's iconic wings and a part of shelding removed. Carnival's first new build ship, the slightly older Tropicale (Now MS Ocean Dream), also had her Carnival funnel removed, and replaced with Costa Cruises's round stove-pipe funnel which she still has today.
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