Costa Deliziosa
History | |
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Name | Costa Deliziosa |
Owner | Carnival Corporation & plc |
Operator | Costa Crociere |
Port of registry | Italy, Genoa |
Ordered | 2007 |
Builder |
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Cost | €450 million |
Yard number | Venezia 6164 |
Launched | 12 March 2009 |
Christened | 23 February 2010 |
Acquired | 31 January 2010 |
Maiden voyage | 5 February 2010 |
In service | 2010–present |
Identification |
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Status | In service |
Notes | [1] |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Vista/Spirit-class hybrid cruise ship |
Tonnage | |
Length | 294 m (964 ft 7 in) |
Beam | 32.3 m (106 ft 0 in) |
Draught | 8 m (26 ft 3 in) |
Decks | 16 (12 for passenger use) |
Speed |
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Capacity | 2,260 passengers (double occupancy) 2,828 passengers (maximum) |
Crew | 934 |
Notes | [1] |
Costa Deliziosa is a
Design and construction
The
Costa Deliziosa is 292 metres (958 ft 0 in) long, with a beam of 32.3 metres (106 ft 0 in).[2] The ship has a gross tonnage of 92,700.[6] Up to 2,828 passengers can be carried in 1,130 cabins.[2][4] The ship has a cruising speed of 21.6 knots (40.0 km/h; 24.9 mph), and a top speed of 23.6 knots (43.7 km/h; 27.2 mph).[2] Around 3,000 people worked on the construction of Costa Deliziosa which cost more than €450 million .[5]
Christening
Costa Deliziosa was
Ports of call
The ship spent the first part of her career operating on seven-day cruises in the Persian Gulf. During the northern summer, the ship relocated to Copenhagen, for seven-day cruises through the Baltic region.[4][5]
On 28 December 2011, Costa Deliziosa embarked on a 100-day round-the-world cruise.[9] Departing from Savona, the ship visited the Caribbean, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Hawaii, Samoa, Fiji, New Zealand, Australia, Singapore, Thailand, Sri Lanka, the United Arab Emirates, and Egypt, before returning to Italy.[9]
In 2013 the ship left Northern Europe. Between spring and fall, Costa Deliziosa operated in the Mediterranean Sea, the Canary Islands and Black Sea. All cruises start from Savona. From January to April 2013, and in 2014, she undertook a 100-night world cruise. It was on this world cruise that the vessel rescued eight sailors whose boat had hit an unidentified object mid-Atlantic. The ship's course was altered to rescue the sailors, before it continued to Antigua.[10]
From 2015, every summer she operates in the Eastern Mediterranean region and more specifically she offers cruises to Greece and Croatia. In the winter period she does world cruises.[11]
Incidents
During the COVID-19 pandemic, on 3 April 2020, the ship was docked in Muscat, Oman with 1830 guests and 899 crew members; at that time, the company, Costa Crociere, was working to find a suitable port for the ship's final destination. The passengers and crew were observing social distancing and sanitation guidelines.[12]
After not being allowed to have any passengers leave the ship when it arrived in Fremantle, Australia, Costa Deliziosa continued to Europe. On 20 April 183 passengers from the Iberian Peninsula and 112 from France left the vessel when it docked in Barcelona.[13] No cases of COVID-19 had been reported to authorities as of that date.[14] The ship then headed to Genoa, with 1519 passengers and 898 crew members aboard, where it docked on 22 April 2020.[15][16][17] It is likely that Costa Deliziosa was the penultimate cruise ship to unload all its passengers during the pandemic, with Artania being the only ship left with passengers on board as of 21 April 2020.[18][17]
Gallery
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Costa Deliziosa at sunset in Grand Turk Island.
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Costa Deliziosa parking at Honningsvåg, near North Cape.
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Costa Deliziosa in Helsinki Harbour.
Similar ships
- Carnival Cruise Lines.
- Radiance class - a similar class of Panamax ships operated by Royal Caribbean International
- MV Arcadia - a similar Panamax ship operated by P&O Cruises.
- MS Queen Victoria - a similar Panamax sized ship operated by Cunard Line.
- Vista class - a similar class of Panamax ships operated by Holland America Line
- Signature-class cruise ship - a similar class of Panamax ships operated by Holland America Line
- Coral Princess and Island Princess - a similar set of Panamax ships operated by Princess Cruises
References
- ^ a b "Advanced Masterdata for the Vessel Costa Deliziosa". VesselTracker. 10 May 2011. Retrieved 8 September 2011.
- ^ a b c d e "Costa Deliziosa". Ship-Technology. Retrieved 1 February 2010.
- ^ "Costa Deliziosa - Costa Cruises". CruiseCritic.co.uk. The Independent Traveller, Inc. Retrieved 1 February 2010.
- ^ a b c "The Costa Deliziosa completes her technical launch at the Marghera yards" (Press release). Fincantieri. 12 March 2009. Retrieved 1 February 2010.
- ^ a b c d e Niemelä, Teijo (31 January 2010). "Costa Deliziosa handed over". Cruise Business Review. Archived from the original on 8 July 2011. Retrieved 16 February 2010.
- ^ a b "Fincantieri: Costa Deliziosa, the new jewel of the Costa Cruises fleet, is delivered in Venice" (Press release). Fincantieri. 30 January 2010. Retrieved 1 February 2010.
- ^ Garrison, Linda (29 January 2010). "Costa Deliziosa Christening Event in Dubai". About.com. Archived from the original on 30 May 2010. Retrieved 24 April 2010.
- ^ Maierbrugger, Arno (29 January 2010). "New Port Rashid terminal set to boost Dubai cruise tourism". Gulf News. Retrieved 1 February 2010.
- ^ a b Marilyn (9 February 2010). "Costa To Cruise The Red Sea". Holiday Hypermarket. TUI Travel PLC. Archived from the original on 31 March 2010. Retrieved 15 February 2010.
- ^ "Cruise Ship Saves 8 Sailors From Sinking Vessel". Cruise Critic. Retrieved 20 January 2014.
- ^ Delahaye, Julie (11 February 2020). "You can now bag Lake Garda holidays complete with a cruise to Greece and Croatia". mirror.
- ^ Impelli, Matthew (3 April 2020). "Eight cruise ships still carrying passengers at sea as coronavirus cases grow around the world". Newsweek.
- ^ Street, Francesca (25 April 2020). "What happened on board the last cruise ship still at sea". CNN.
- ^ The Last Three Cruise Ships at Sea Are Finally Going Home New York Magazine 20 April 2020
- ^ "Coronavirus, Costa Deliziosa oggi pomeriggio a Genova con 2.500 persone a bordo" (in Italian). Genova24. 20 April 2020. Retrieved 26 April 2020.
- ^ "Genova, Deliziosa all'ingresso del porto: il vento rallenta le operazioni d'attracco, Genova - Cronaca". Primocanale.it. Retrieved 26 April 2020.
- ^ a b "Costa Deliziosa in porto, i crocieristi del giro del mondo rientrati in Italia dopo 108 giorni". Ilgazzettino.it. 22 April 2020. Retrieved 26 April 2020.
- ^ "Last cruise ship at sea finally reaches port | CNN Travel". Cnn.com. Retrieved 26 April 2020.