These voyages were themed as "Halloween On The High Seas Bermuda Cruise", with departure dates October 4, 13 (6-day), 19, 24 and 29.
The ship was scheduled to dock in King's Wharf via 5-day roundtrips from NYC New York. In 2018, Disney Cruise Line booked its maiden season in Bermuda with MS Disney Magic.
Port's new (second and larger) dock was inaugurated in April 2011 and has capacity to handle the world's largest passenger ships. Also here are the Bermuda Maritime Museum and the Dolphin Quest (water attraction), several restaurants. A pedestrian mall was opened in the clock tower building. To serve the foreign visitors, several former warehouses were reconstructed into art shops. WEDCO (West End Development Corporation) was established in 1982 as quango (semi-public administrative body) to oversee the development of former Admiralty lands on Boaz, Ireland, and Watford islands. Smaller passenger ships berth here the whole year-round. During that time, the Naval Dockyard was renovated and turned it into a tourist attraction.Ĭurrently, large cruise ships dock regularly at Bermuda's Naval Dockyard (Kings Wharf) during summer. In the early-1980s Bermuda started to develop its tourism industry. After 1957, when most of the navy base was closed, it gradually degraded, mainly due to lack of maintenance and sea storms causing damages to the buildings. In 1818, the Royal Naval Dockyard became the British Navy's headquarters for North America and West Indies. The port was used as a provisioning station for many European sailships en-route to/from North America (the New World) after the settlement was established by England in 1609.įrench privateers used the surrounding isles as staging sites for pirate operations against the Spanish galleons during the entire 16th century. Royal Naval Dockyard Bermuda (HMD Bermuda) was the British Royal Navy's principal base in the Western Atlantic in the period 1775-1947 - or between the American Revolutionary War (1775-83) and the Cold War (1947-91). The facility was turned into a tourism destination with shops, museums, restaurants, theater, craft market and center for arts. In 1957, after the US Military had established its presence. Its purpose was to serve as a British military outpost. The building of this nay complex started right after the Napoleonic War. This is the time when at Kings Wharf dock Bermuda's largest cruise liners with regularly scheduled roundtrips from homeports in the USA. Port's main cruising season runs from early-April through mid-November.
King's Wharf cruise port (aka "West End", fka "Royal Naval Dockyard") is located on Bermuda Island's westernmost tip.
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