Club Harmony

Club Harmony

Ship data flag  Sweden (1969–1986) Cyprus (1986–1987) Italy (1987–1994, 2000–2011) Liberia (1994–2000) Marshall Islands (2011–2014)         other ship names Axel Johnson (1969–1986) Regent Sun (1986–1987) Italia (1987–1988) Costa Marina (1988–2011) Harmony Princess (2011) Ship type Cruise ship class Axel Johnson class (type ship) Callsign V7XN2 home port Stockholm (1969–1986) Limassol (1986–1987) Naples (1987–1994) Monrovia (1994–2000) Genoa (2000–2011) Majuro (2011–2014) Owner Polar Energy & Marine Shipping company Harmony Cruises Shipyard Wärtsilä, Turku (new building) T. Mariotti, Genoa (renovation) Build number 1169 Launch 16th January 1969 takeover June 14, 1969 Whereabouts Scrapped in Alang in 2014

Ship dimensions and crew length 173.81 m ( Lüa ) width 25.75 m Draft Max. 7.9 m measurement 24,783 GT / 10,542 GT   crew 391

Machine system machine diesel-mechanical 2 × diesel engine (Pielstick 16PC2V) 2 × diesel engine (Pielstick 12PC2V) Machine performance 19,152 kW (26,039 hp) Top speed 20.5 kn (38 km / h) propeller 2 × controllable pitch propellers

Transport capacities Load capacity 6,121 dw Permitted number of passengers 760

Others Classifications Registro Italiano Navale Korean Register of Shipping Registration numbers IMO no. 6910544

The Club Harmony was a cruise ship that was operated from 1988 to November 2011 by the Costa Crociere shipping company under the name Costa Marina .

history

Original appearance of the ship (here the sister ship Margaret Johnson )

As a Costa Marina in the port of Kiel

The Club Harmony was built in 1969 as the Axel Johnson container ship for the Swedish Johnson Line and delivered as the lead ship of a class of five sister ships. 1986 was Axel Johnson sold and Regent Sun renamed.

The ship was to be converted into a cruise ship in the Italian Mariotti shipyard in Genoa , but this failed due to financial difficulties. It was sold again in 1987 in the shipyard and renamed Italia . In 1988 Costa Crociere finally bought the ship and had it converted into the Costa Marina .

The conversion was more profitable for the shipping company than building a new cruise ship. In the years 1990 to 1992 the freighter Annie Johnson was modified accordingly and put into service as Costa Allegra .

The operational area of ​​the Costa Marina was the Caribbean in winter and the Mediterranean in summer. At the beginning of the 21st century, the ship was marketed as a German-speaking ship. In winter 2006/2007 the Costa Marina was the first ship of the shipping company to be relocated from Savona to Asia and stationed in Singapore .

The Costa Marina spent the winter of 2007/2008 in the Indian Ocean with the base port of Mauritius . On these 15-day cruises, new destinations such as the Seychelles , Comoros , Kenya and Madagascar were headed for Costa .

From March 10th to May 25th 2011 and from September 13th to November 13th 2011 the Costa Marina chartered for the French tour operator TAAJ Crosières. She traveled from Marseille to destinations in the Mediterranean and from Calais in Northern Europe.

In November 2011 Costa Crociere chartered the ship with an option to buy to the South Korean company Polaris Shipping Company in Seoul and sold it to Polaris Energy & Marine in June 2014, while Polaris Shipping Company continued to act as ship manager. Polaris Shipping Company brought the ship into their newly established subsidiary Harmony Cruises. Harmony Cruises initially used the ship as Harmony Princess and then under the name Club Harmony from the base port of Busan for cruises in the Far East, but discontinued the service at the end of 2012. As of February 2013, the lay Club Harmony in the port of Busan on . In January 2014 it was towed to the port of Gwangyang and from there in August 2014 on to Alang, India, for scrapping. On October 18, 2014, the ship reached the roadstead in front of Alang, where it was put on the beach as Harmony I on October 25 and then abandoned.

Technical specifications

The propulsion of the ship is done with four Pielstick - diesel engines ranging from Wärtsilä were built under license. Two of the engines are sixteen-cylinder - four-stroke engines , each with 5,472  kW power , two are twelve-cylinder -Viertaktmotoren each with 4,104 kW of power. The motors act on two controllable pitch propellers .

Three diesel generators with an apparent power of around 2,812 kVA each  and a diesel generator with an apparent power of 750 kVA are available for the on-board power supply .

Sister ships

The Club Harmony is a ship of a class of five units built as container ships. These include the Costa Allegra , built as Annie Johnson ( scrapped in Aliağa in 2012 ), the Antonia Johnson scrapped in Alang in 1999 , the San Francisco scrapped in Alang in 2007 and Margaret Johnson scrapped in Aliağa in 1987 , which was also to be converted into a cruise ship in 1986.

See also

List of cruise lines

Web links

Commons : IMO 6910544  - Collection of Images, Videos, and Audio Files

• Picture collection: Costa Marina in the NOK / Kiel Canal

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Equasis - France Ministry for Transport: Administrative data of the "Costa Marina". Retrieved January 14, 2012 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Micke Asklander: Historical and technical data of the ship. Retrieved January 14, 2012 . 
3. ^ M / S Axel Johnson. Retrieved February 14, 2015 . 
4. ↑ ^{a b c} Korean cruise oldie heads for the torch. In: TradeWinds , September 5, 2014.
5. ↑ Changes to the fleet . In: on KURS # 1, 2012, p. 23.
6. ^ South Koreans buy "Costa Marina" , THB - Deutsche Schiffahrts-Zeitung , December 7, 2011.
7. ↑ Cruise ship COSTA MARINA (today cruise ship CLUB HARMONY). Retrieved January 23, 2014 . 
8. ↑ M / S MARGARET JOHNSON. Retrieved November 3, 2013 .