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Big Sunshine
CARNIVAL SUNSHINE
270 metres of cruise ship · 30 years on the water
1st of 1 · 08:11 · 4 January 2025+ Follow this boatSign in to follow her and keep her in your corner.Personal best06:55Archive timing · 3.7 km course time
Typical course time08:39Median of 403 archive runs
Daily race record146–243–14Wins – losses – ties · 403 starts
Stare-down record118–49–2Wins – losses – ties · all opponents
Everything on file.
- Official name
- CARNIVAL SUNSHINE
- Nickname
- Big Sunshine
- MMSI
- 308017000
- IMO
- 9070058
- Call sign
- C6FN4
- Flag
- BS
- Type
- cruise ship (from its AIS ship-type code)
- Class
- Cruise ships
- Built
- 1996 · 30 years old
- Length
- 270 m
- Beam
- 44 m
- AIS ship type
- 69
- Built by
- Fincantieri
- Built in
- Monfalcone, Italy
- Yard number
- 5941
- Formerly
- Carnival Destiny
- Owner
- Carnival Corporation
- Operator
- Carnival Cruise Line
Particulars come from her AIS broadcast and the sourced facts ledger. A type decided from her name or her operator is a guess and is labelled as one.
Two measurements, kept apart.
- Window best
- none
- Archive best
- 06:55 · Archive timing, 2021 to 2026
- Best race score, window
- none
- Best race score, archive
- none
The window receiver times a gate to about a second; the national archive carries one fix a minute, interpolated to about two. Her two bests are two different measurements and are never ranked against each other.
What she holds.
- Fastest course time
- 07:00 · Cruise ships, Outbound, open season, Archive
- Slowest and most majestic
- 14:26 · Cruise ships, Inbound, open season, Archive
- Slowest and most majestic
- 17:38 · Cruise ships, Inbound, whale season, Archive
- Slowest and most majestic
- 12:11 · Cruise ships, Outbound, whale season, Archive
How fast she’s gone.
- Observed top speed
- 17.2 kn · 13 Mar 2023 · off Charleston, SC · national archive 2021-25
From our own position archives, with reasonableness checks: a plausible top speed over a corroborated window, a direct leg between two named places. A bound carries no second fix to confirm it and is labelled as one.