Carnival Cruise Line is winding the clock back almost 50 years by naming its largest ever vessel the Mardi Gras.

The Miami-based cruise giant revealed the name on US TV game show Wheel of Fortune.

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Meyer Turku in Finland will deliver the 180,000-gt, XL-class newbuilding in 2020, which has been named in what Carnival Cruise Line describes as a nod to the company’s rich American cruising history.