MSC Splendida passing under the 25 de Abril Bridge in Lisbon |
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Career | |
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Name: | MSC Splendida |
Operator: | MSC Cruises |
Port of registry: | Panama[1] |
Ordered: | June 1, 2005[2] |
Builder: | STX Europe (St. Nazaire)[1][3] |
Cost: | $550 million[1] |
Christened: | July 12, 2009 by Sophia Loren in Barcelona[4] |
Maiden voyage: | July 4, 2009 to July 11, 2009 to the Mediterranean[5] |
In service: | March 2009[1] |
Identification: | IMO number: 9359806[6] Call Sign 3FZI8[7] MMSI 357698000[7] |
Status: | In service |
General characteristics | |
Class and type: | Fantasia-class cruise ship |
Tonnage: | 133,500 gross register tons (GRT)[1] |
Length: | 1,093.5 ft (333.30 m)[1] |
Beam: | 124.6 ft (37.98 m)[1] |
Height: | 219.2 ft (66.81 m)[8] |
Draft: | 27.2 ft (8.29 m)[1] |
Decks: | 18 total, 13 passenger decks[1][8] |
Installed power: | Diesel (40,000kW)[1] |
Propulsion: | 2 propellors[1] |
Speed: | 21-knot (39 km/h; 24 mph)[3] |
Capacity: | 3,900 passengers[1] |
Crew: | 1,313 crew[1] |
Notes: | 15 elevators,[8] post-Panamax |
MSC Splendida is Fantasia-class cruise ship owned and operated by MSC Cruises. She entered service in March 2009, as a sister ship to MSC Fantasia. She was to be named MSC Serenata, but the name was changed in May 2007 to MSC Splendida[9][10] "to reflect the ship's beauty and elegance".[11]
MSC Splendida's itineraries cover Mediterranean ports including Marseille; Heraklion; Katakolon; Piraeus; Civitavecchia; Genoa; Messina; Naples; Palermo; Valletta; Barcelona; Malaga; Gibraltar; Palma De Mallorca; Valencia; La Goulette; Izmir and Marmaris and Atlantic Ocean ports including Casablanca; Santa Cruz De Tenerife and Funchal.
MSC Splendida was delivered to MSC Cruises on July 4, 2009.[12] She embarked on her maiden voyage on July 4, 2009,[5] to the Mediterranean and returned July 11, to be officially named on July 12, 2009, in Barcelona by Sophia Loren.[4]
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