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The passenger ship Eugenio C. , which was put into service in 1966 , belonged to the Italian shipping company Costa Crociere . Until 1977 it drove in transatlantic traffic to South America. The shipping company then used the Eugenio C. as its largest cruise ship until it was replaced in this role in 1991 by the larger Costa Classica . In 1996 Costa Crociere decommissioned the ship. After several changes of ownership and a five-year Aufliegezeit to the Bahamas , the last when it was The Big Red Boat II used Eugenio C. in 2005 Indian scrapped Alang .
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Planning and construction
The Eugenio C. was commissioned by the Italian shipping company Costa Crociere from Cantieri Riuniti dell'Adriatico (CRDA) in Trieste and laid down on January 4, 1964 as hull number 1884 . The CRDA shipyard, founded in 1923, was best known for building military aircraft during World War II . The Eugenio C. was one of the largest ships ever built in the shipyard that Fincantieri later bought. The hull design and parts of the machinery were designed analogously to the slightly larger Oceanic , which was also created by Cantieri Riuniti dell'Adriatico.
The ship was planned to replace the Bianca C. , which sank in 1961 after a fire. The Eugenio C. was the shipping company's second and at the same time largest new building. On November 21, 1964, the Eugenio C. was launched and handed over to its owner Costa Crociere on August 22, 1966.
On August 31, 1966, the ship was put into service and completed its maiden voyage to Buenos Aires via Lisbon , Rio de Janeiro and Montevideo without incident.
Costa Crociere
The Eugenio C. was used for transatlantic voyages between Genoa and South America for the next ten years . On this route, she replaced Federico C. , who was eight years her senior , who was then deployed from Genoa to Florida and Venezuela . The Eugenio C. was the last passenger ship built for service to South America. From 1967 the ship also went on cruises.
In the 1970s, the number of passengers traveling across the Atlantic fell significantly. As a result, the Eugenio C. was used exclusively as a cruise ship from 1977. The first cruise in October 1977 was a world tour with arrival in Genoa on December 15th. Subsequently, the ship was mainly used for extended cruises in the Mediterranean and world trips. It also made regular cruises on its old route to South America until 1985.
In 1983, Eugenio C. was the location and location of the film drama TransAtlantique with Zaira Zambelli , Roger Jendly , Renate Schroeter and Balz Raz in the leading roles. The director was the Swiss film director Hans-Ulrich Schlumpf , who also wrote the screenplay for the film.
In 1987 the ship was extensively renovated and renamed Eugenio Costa . In addition to the modernization of the equipment, the stern area of the ship was rebuilt and glazed, creating an additional lounge at the stern. In December 1989 the ship was put back into service. In 1989 the ship's machinery was also overhauled. The Eugenio Costa remained the largest ship in the Costa Crociere fleet until it was surpassed by the larger Costa Classica in 1991 .
In 1993 the Eugenio Costa was to be chartered as an American Pioneer to the American Family Cruises , which also belonged to Costa Crociere , in order to complement the former Costa Riviera there. These plans came to nothing after American Family Cruises was dissolved in 1994.
In December 1995 it was announced that the Eugenio Costa will be leaving Costa Crociere's fleet in the coming year. On March 5, 1996, the ship left the port of Santos for the last time, which it had called regularly in its 30 years of service for Costa Crociere. In November 1996, the Eugenio Costa finally completed her last cruise for Costa Crociere and was subsequently retired after the new Costa Victoria was put into service.
After completing his last cruise, Costa Crociere handed the ship over to the Bremen volcano as part payment for the construction of the Costa Victoria .
Direct cruises
The Bremer Vulkan sold the ship in 1997 to the British cruise operator Direct Cruises , who renamed it Edinburgh Castle and modernized the passenger areas for 12 million US dollars. From January to March 1998, the Edinburgh Castle was stationed in New York Harbor and used for two-day casino cruises. It was then hauled to Southampton . The ship was marketed exclusively in Great Britain and used for short cruises in the North and Baltic Seas as well as in the Mediterranean.
In June 1998 several passengers and crew fell ill from drinking water contaminated with Legionella during a cruise . The cruise was canceled in Greenock for this reason .
On August 21, 1998, during a cruise off Cabo Carvoeiro, a fire broke out in the kitchen of Edinburgh Castle , but it was quickly extinguished. The cause of the fire was a defective deep fryer .
Direct Cruises had to file for bankruptcy in January 1999 after just under six months of service . The Edinburgh Castle was at that time in Southampton , where it had been undergoing a general overhaul since October 1998. The ship was then arrested and laid up in Southampton. However, some crew members remained on board.
On May 3, 1999, another incident occurred on board the laid-up ship when a crew member died as a result of falling down a staircase in the ship's disco.
Premier Cruises
In May 1999 the Cammel Laird Group took over Edinburgh Castle . The ship was then modernized until it was chartered to Premier Cruises in April 2000 with an option to buy . The new shipping company renamed the ship The Big Red Boat II . It also received the red hull painting that is typical of the shipping company.
The planned first voyage of The Big Red Boat II in the port of New York on June 3, 2000 had to be postponed by a week because the spare parts required for the ship were delivered late.
After the successful first voyage on June 10, 2000, The Big Red Boat II was used for cruises to the Caribbean as well as to the east coast of the United States and Canada .
In September 2000 the shipping company went bankrupt. The The Big Red Boat II was arrested despite already begun Cruise and Port Canaveral launched. On December 14, 2000, the ship was hauled to Freeport , where it was moored together with the Big Red Boat III and the Rembrandt , which were also part of the former fleet of Premier Cruises.
The last few years
In the years to come, the ship was unsuccessfully for sale several times. In April 2005, The Big Red Boat II was acquired by Indian scrappers. It was given the abbreviated name Big Red for its transfer trip to India . On April 13, 2005, the ship made a stopover in the Azores to bunker for the voyage to India. On April 15th, the Big Red resumed its scrapping voyage.
The ship arrived in Alang on June 5, 2005 , where it was pulled onto the beach two days later. With the Margarita L , which was put into service in 1960, another important passenger ship from the 1960s arrived in Alang the day before. In September 2005 the bow area of the ship was wrecked down to the superstructure. In spring 2006 the demolition of the former Eugenio C. was completed.
Furnishing
The Eugenio C. was initially divided into first class (178 passengers) and tourist class (tourist class A; 356 passengers and tourist class B; 1102 passengers) with a total of 1636 beds. However, the class division was lifted after the ship was used exclusively for cruises. In addition to several bars and the main dining room, the ship had three ballrooms with dance floors ( Sala Feste Ambra , Sala Feste Turchese and Sala Feste Opale ) and a lounge (Soggiorno Rubino) . The ship also had its own kindergarten. After the ship had been converted into the Eugenio Costa , another lounge was available to passengers from 1987, which was located in the glazed stern area of the ship. There were two swimming pools on the deck of the Eugenio C. , one on the sundeck and one on the lido deck.
The interior of the ship was designed by the Italian interior designer Nino Zoncada , who was responsible for the interior fittings of the Italian passenger ships Michelangelo and Raffaello as well as the France as early as 1965 . The works of art on board the ship came from well-known Italian artists such as Emanuele Luzzati , Enrico Paulucci , Massimo Campigli and Marcello Mascherini .
The Eugenio C. was equipped with two retractable Denny Brown stabilizers . The ship also had nine passenger and freight elevators, 835 cubic meters of cold storage rooms and nine conveyor belts for loading the freight.
Memories of the ship
A mural in the Botticelli restaurant of the Costa Romantica , which was put into service in 1993, was reminiscent of the Eugenio C. After the ship was converted into a Costa neoRomantica and the restaurant was modernized, the painting was removed again in 2011.
During an anniversary cruise to mark the 60th anniversary of Costa Crociere, memorabilia from the former Costa Crociere ships were auctioned. The highlight of the auction was a fuselage from the earlier Eugenio C. , which was sold for 1,600 euros.
The Eugenio C Club, founded by a former crew member, has existed in Genoa since 2006 for former crew members and passengers who remember the ship in annual meetings.
literature
- Jaroslav Coplák, Pavol Pevný: passenger ships. Dausien 1996, ISBN 3-7684-0570-2
Web links
- technical data and history of the ship on faktaomfartyg (Swedish)
- technical data about the ship on shipparade.com
- History of the ship with a list of the areas of application
- Postcard motifs of the ship
Individual evidence
- ↑ Eugenio C. In: mucamonfalcone.it. Museo della Cantieristica a Monfalcone, accessed July 28, 2021 (Italian).
- ↑ Jaroslav Coplak, Pavol Pevny: Passenger Ships . P. 178.
- ^ Ian Boyle: Direct Cruises. Retrieved September 13, 2015 .
- ↑ "FEDERICO C" a Beautiful Passenger Ship. November 16, 2012, accessed September 12, 2015 .
- ↑ Yesterday's liner. 2013, accessed September 12, 2015 .
- ↑ TS EUGENIO C. Retrieved September 29, 2015 .
- ↑ TransAtlantique. Retrieved September 11, 2015 .
- ^ Cruise Travel, 1/1994, p. 87.
- ↑ Recordando o Eugenio C. April 11, 2011, accessed on September 12, 2015 .
- ^ Theodore W. Scull: Remembering a Festive Night at Sea Aboard the Edinburgh Castle. Retrieved September 13, 2015 .
- ↑ T / S EUGENIO C. Retrieved September 7, 2015 .
- ^ Fire in main galley of passenger cruise ship Edinburgh Castle. Retrieved September 10, 2015 .
- ↑ Edinburgh Castle. 2015, archived from the original on October 3, 2015 ; accessed on March 26, 2018 .
- ^ Report of the Inspector's Investigation into the death of one person on the cruise Ship EDINBURGH CASTLE while berthed in Southampton Docks on May 3, 1999. Retrieved September 10, 2015 .
- ^ Lisa Plotnick: Remembering Premier Cruise Line. Retrieved September 11, 2015 .
- ↑ Big Red Boat II NY debut delayed. June 2, 2000, accessed September 11, 2015 .
- ↑ Ralph Vigoda, Laurie Mayk and Robert Sanchez: Vacationers' Hopes Sink Aboard Cruise Six Hundred People On The Big Red Boat Ii Were Detoured When Creditors Took Control Of The Ship. September 16, 2000, accessed September 11, 2015 .
- ↑ Eugenio C. Retrieved September 13, 2015 .
- ↑ Reuben Goossens: Costa Armatori SpA (Linea C) SS Eugenio C. Accessed September 6, 2015 .
- ↑ Martin Cox: “The Sands Of Alang” Reviewed by Martin Cox. April 21, 2013, accessed September 12, 2015 .
- ^ Daniel Capella: Eugenio C. deixou legião de fãs. October 16, 2010, accessed September 12, 2015 .
- ^ Eugenio C: on board the last ocean liner. June 6, 2015, accessed September 8, 2015 .
- ↑ The kindergarten is the most beautiful. July 19, 1967. Retrieved September 8, 2015 .
- ↑ Eugenio C. Photos. (No longer available online.) In: shipparade.com. Archived from the original on August 19, 2011 ; accessed on February 10, 2021 .
- ↑ Peter Knego: SS EUGENIO C. Accessed September 7, 2015 .
- ^ Reuben Goossens: SS Eugenio C Photo Album. Retrieved September 8, 2015 .
- ^ Costa's Former Flagship, Eugenio C. October 31, 2008, accessed September 12, 2015 .
- ^ Eugenio "C" Club. Archived from the original on September 28, 2015 ; accessed on March 26, 2018 .
