Latest photos and Video from Alang of Karnika Jalesh

 Gujarat: Luxury cruise liner MV Karnika reaches Alang, to be dismantled

Jalesh Cruises took delivery of the Karnika in Singapore in March 2019 as the vessel wrapped up her P&O Australia career as the Pacific Jewel.

The vessel, which is the first in the fleet of the multi-destination cruise line Jalesh Cruises, will reach Mumbai on April 17 and be named on April 19.

The ship originally launched as the Crown princess, but also served as the A'Rosa Blu, AIDAblu and Ocean Village Two before heading to P&O Australia as the Pacific Jewel, and then to Jalesh.

Shree Ram Group, the shipbreaker which had bought aircraft carrier INS Viraat, has purchased the 14-deck cruise liner as scrap.

“We have bought the vessel for US $12.3 million. It will be the biggest passenger cruise liner we will be breaking. We have broken passenger ships that are half the size of this vessel earlier,” Mukesh Patel, chairman of Shree Ram Group said. “We got this passenger ship from London-based firm NKD Maritime Ltd which had participated in an auction carried through the Mumbai High Court,” Patel added.

Karnika Jalesh scrapped, Latest photos and Video from Alang

TO BE SCRAPPED:

"KARNIKA" / reg. Nassau, arrived Alang anchorage, India, 22 November 2020, as her final destination.

Vessel was beached 17/11.

Here seen as "A` ROSA BLU" / reg. London, in Bergen/Norway, 16 June 2003.

Copyright - Øystein Berge, Ålgård/Norway

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TYPE: Cruise

IMO NO: 8521220

70 310 gt / 35 125 nt / 6261 mdwt

Delivered from Fincantieri Cant Nav. Monfalcone, Italy (Yard no 5839), in July 1990.

Namehistory:

- "Crown Princess" from delivery in 1990 until 2002

- "A`rosa Blu" from 2002 until 2004

- "Aidablu" from 2004 until 2007

- "Ocean Village Two" from 2007 until 2009

- "Pacific Jewel" from 2009 until 2019

- "Karnika" from 2019 until scrapping.

Last reported owners was Jalesh Cruises Mauritius Ltd. (Campbell Shipping Co. Ltd.), Nassau / Bahamas. (From 20/03/2019)