MS Costa Allegra
Costa Allegra in Shanghai
Annie Johnson (1969-1986) Regent Moon (1986-1988) Alexandra (1988-1990) Costa Allegra (1992-2012) Santa Cruise ( 2012)
IMO no. 6916885
The Costa Allegra was a cruise ship of the Italian cruise line Costa Crociere SpA. The ship was built as a container ship in 1969 and put into service under the name Annie Johnson for the Swedish operator Rederi AB Nordstjernan. After the ship was launched in the mid-1980s and several times the owner moved, started in 1990, the complete conversion to a cruise ship in the shipyard T. Mariotti SpA of Genoa. In 1992 the ship as Costa Allegra was brought back into service. Characteristic features were the cylinder- shaped chimneys and glazed Heck, what the Costa Allegra called the " Crystal Ship " earned. After a fire in the engine room at sea in late February 2012, the Costa Allegra was written off as a total loss and scrapped in the autumn of 2012 in Turkey. Another sister ship, which is also built as a freighter Axel Jonson, drove to November 2011 under the name Costa Marina Costa Crociere and is now called Club Harmony.
History
1969-1990
The ship, which was known as the Costa Allegra, the late 1960s, with the hull number 1170 was built on the Finnish Oy Wärtsilä Ab Turku shipyard. After the launch on 29 April 1969, the ship was delivered as Annie Johnson on December 4, 1969, used in container transport.
1986 Annie Johnson was sold to the Greek ship owner Antonis Lelakis. This planned to be rebuilt the ship under the name Regent Moon for his shipping company Regency Cruise Line a cruise ship. The vessel arrived in late August 1986 in Piraeus and was initially launched. After the conversion could not be implemented as planned, the ship was sold to Compania Naviera the Panalexandra SA and renamed Alexandra. The ship was used by MSC as a freighter
Since 1990
On August 28, 1990, the ship of the cruise line Costa Crociere SpA was taken, which led it to the yard T. Mariotti SpA of Genoa. The conversion to a cruise ship began on 4 September 1990 and ended with the delivery to the shipping company on 16 November 1992. As the name of the ship Costa Azzurra was initially intended. The superstructure was completely removed and reconstructed. The fuselage was lengthened by 13.4 m and in the area of the former cargo holds caused passenger cabins and the new infrastructure of the ship. In addition, the drive system has been renewed. After the baptism in the name Costa Allegra she went on its maiden voyage to the Caribbean.
Incidents
- On a cruise from Savona to Hong Kong it arrived at the port of Colombo ( Sri Lanka) to protests among the approximately 800 passengers. Ever since the ship on 30 April 2006 left the port of Savona, the air conditioning system of the ship and numerous toilets had failed again and again. Some of the cabins were under water. Only when the captain assured the repair of this damage, the Costa Allegra could continue their journey further towards Port Blair and to Hong Kong.
- On the first cruise in Southeast Asia from 8th to 12th July 2006, came to several failures of the machinery, and then the itinerary had to be changed.
- On 27 February 2012 the Costa Allegra operation with 636 passengers and 413 crew members on board about 260 nautical miles off the Seychelles in the Indian Ocean after a fire broke out in the engine room. The NUC cruise ship was March 1, towed by other ships, mainly from the French trawler " Trévignon " in the port of Mahé, where all passengers unharmed went ashore. While the cause of the fire has been determined, the Costa Voyager came on the envisaged routes used. Dama Lige plans before saw the Costa Allegra for sale, may also scrapping.
Feed end
Following the accident on 27 February 2012, the Costa Allegra met 25 March 2012 under its own power for the first repair in Savona. Launched in Sestri Ponente First, the Italian shipyard Fincantieri, she was later transferred to Genoa. Plans for a Turkish company, to bring the ship back on track, failed because it would have to be repaired and equipped with all certificates. The price for this action was given as $ 30 million. Therefore, in September 2012 the decision was made to sell the Costa Allegra for between seven and 10 million dollars to abort. On 24 October 2012, the ship flying the flag of Sierra Leone and the name of Santa Cruise met in a Aliağa to the scrap yard.
Areas of application
The operational area of the Costa Allegra was in the winter the Caribbean ( base port Miami) and in summer the Mediterranean ( port base Savona). After remodeling and renovations, the ship as of June 2006 was used for the new Costa - Costa Asia Division under the same name in the Chinese market. In the summer of 2011, the Costa Allegra trips took from the base port of Venice to the eastern Mediterranean and in the Black Sea. From December 2011 to February 2012 the ship was stationed in the Indian Ocean. From Mauritius, Seychelles, Madagascar and La Réunion were started. After an overpass cruise to the western Mediterranean, the Costa Allegra should go in the Charter of the French tour operators TAAJ Crosières in the spring and fall of 2012.
Machinery and drive
When Annie Johnson, the ship was equipped with a diesel-mechanical machinery, in which four built by Wärtsilä under license Pielstick PC2- diesel engines were utilized. Depending on a 16-cylinder and 12- cylinder engine formed a motor group who worked on pitch propellers via gear and shafting.
With the conversion of a cruise ship, the Pielstick engines were replaced by four smooth-running six- cylinder in-line Wärtsilä 46 engines of the type. To produce a comparable performance, these motors running at a reduced speed of 450 rpm only.