History
| LOI | |
| Building contract | |
| Building started | |
| 16/1/1959 | Keel laid |
| 17/1/1961 | Launch |
| Sea trial | |
| Second sea trial | |
| 14/12/1961 | Delivered to Union-Castle Mail Steamship Co., London, England |
| 18/1/1962 | Southampton – Durban service |
| 12/1/1966 | Sold to South Africa Marine Corp, London, England. New name S.A. Vaal |
| 12/1/1966 | England -South Africa service |
| 2/1969 | South African flag, Home port Kaptown |
| 10/10/1977 | Laid up after last arrival from South Africa. |
| 10/1977 | Sold to Festivale Maritime Inc, Panama (Carnival Cruise Lines). New name Festivale. |
| 29/10/1977 | Voyage from England to Japan |
| 1977-1978 | Rebuild in Japan. |
| 28/10/1978 | First cruise in Caribbean , Operated Carnival Cruise Lines. |
| 2/11/1986 | Caribbean cruises from St Juan. |
| 1991 | Bahamas flag. |
| 4/1996 | Sold to Dolphin Cruise Line, Nassau, Bahamas. New name Islandbreeze. |
| 1996 | Refurbished |
| 4/1996 | Charter to Thomson Cruises. Cruises in Mediterranean |
| 1997 | Refurbished |
| 1997 | Sold to Premier Cruise Lines, Nassau, Bahamas. |
| 1997 | Cruises in Caribbean |
| 5/2000 | New name The Big Red Boat III. |
| 9/2000 | Laid up at Freeport, Bahamas after Premier Cruises went bankrupt. |
| 6/2003 | Sold to scrap. New name The Big Boat. |
| 13/7/2003 | Beached to Alang , India. Scrapped. |