Costa Magica

Costa Magica

Costa Magica at the entrance to the port

Ship data flag  Italy Ship type Cruise ship class Triumph or Destiny class Callsign IBQQ home port Genoa Owner Costa Crociere Shipping company Costa Crociere Shipyard Fincantieri , Sestri Ponente Launch November 14, 2003 takeover November 2004

Ship dimensions and crew length 272.2 m ( Lüa ) width 35.5 m Draft Max. 8 m measurement 102,587 GT   crew 1027

Machine system machine Diesel-electric drive Top speed 24.0 kn (44 km / h)

Transport capacities Load capacity 9,859 dwt Permitted number of passengers 3,470

Others Classifications Registro Italiano Navale Registration numbers IMO 9239795

The Costa Magica in front of Geiranger

The Costa Magica is a cruise ship operated by the Costa Crociere shipping company . The ship was completed in 2004 and was the flagship until mid-2006 when it was replaced by the Costa Concordia .

history

The ship was built under the hull number 6087 at Fincantieri in Genoa and undocked on November 14, 2003. The ship was delivered in November 2004 and sailed under the Italian flag with its home port of Genoa .

The ship

style

Italian locations are the main theme of the ship. All restaurants, bars and lidos are named after such: Costa Smeralda , Portofino , Spoleto , Ostia Antica , Salento , L'Aquila , Isola Bella, Positano , Bellagio , Maratea , Vicenza .

The decks are also named after Italian baroque and renaissance painters ( Guercino , Giorgione , Tintoretto, Raffaello , Michelangelo , Leonardo , Caravaggio , Perugino , Veronese , Giotto , Tiziano , Tiepolo , Mantegna ).

Furnishing

In addition to a three-story theater (Teatro Urbino ), the ship has a spa area, four swimming pools, one of which has a water slide, whirlpools , a library , a casino, a gallery with drugstores, a jewelry store , boutiques and a duty-free shop and a photo studio .

Areas of application

• December 2007 - March 2008: Cruises in South America with base port Santos
• March 2008: Transatlantic cruise from Santos to Savona
• March - November 2008: cruises in the Mediterranean
• March 2010: Transatlantic cruise from Santos to Savona
• April - May 2010: cruises in the Mediterranean
• May - August 2010: Cruise to the Baltic Sea, around Norway , Iceland and Svalbard
• September 2010: Return from Kiel to Savona
• October - May 2011: cruises in the Mediterranean
• June - July 2011: Cruises in the North Baltic Sea region
• Winter 2011/2012: cruises in South America
• Summer half-year 2012: cruises from Savona in the western Mediterranean to replace the crashed Costa Concordia .
• Winter 2012/13: cruises in the western and eastern Mediterranean
• Summer half of 2013: Mediterranean cruises from / to Venice
• Winter 2013/14: Cruises in the southern Caribbean from / to Guadeloupe
• Winter 2018/19: Cruises in the southern Caribbean from / to Pointe-à-Pitre , Guadeloupe

See also

• List of cruise lines
• Triumph class

Web links

Commons : Costa Magica  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Data of the ship with current webcam
• Construction information of the shipyard
• M / S Costa Magica

Footnotes

1. ^ Costa catalog 2011, p. 21; 378
2. ↑ Costa Catalog 2011, p. 380f.
3. ↑ [1]  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.