MSC Preziosa in Greenock Ocean Terminal on 12 May 2017.
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History | |
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Name | MSC Preziosa |
Operator | MSC Cruises |
Port of registry | Panama |
Route | Mediterranean |
Builder | STX France |
Cost | $550 million |
Yard number | X32 |
Launched | 2 September 2011 |
Christened | 23 March 2013 |
In service | March 2013 |
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Status | In service |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Fantasia-class cruise ship |
Tonnage | 139,072 GT[1] |
Length | 333.33 m (1,093.60 ft)[1] |
Beam | 37.92 m (124.41 ft)[1] |
Height | 66.81 m (219.2 ft) |
Draft | 8.65 m (28.38 ft)[1] |
Decks | 18 total, 13 passenger decks |
Installed power | Diesel (40,000kW) |
Propulsion | Twin propellers |
Speed | 23.7 knots (43.9 km/h; 27.3 mph)[1] |
Capacity |
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Crew | 1,370 crew |
Notes | 17 elevators, post-Panamax |
MSC Preziosa is a Fantasia-class cruise ship owned and operated by MSC Cruises. She entered service in March 2013. She is an enhanced version of her first two class member ships, MSC Splendida and MSC Fantasia, and is identical to the previous MSC Divina. She debuted on 13 March as the fourth ship in the Fantasia class.[2]
MSC Preziosa was constructed from 2010 to 2013 at the STX shipyard in St. Nazaire, France, and was delivered in March 2013, being named MSC Preziosa while under construction in 2012. She has a capacity of 3,502 passengers in 1,310 outside cabins and 327 inside cabins, who are accommodated with a crew complement of 1,370. She was the 13th cruise ship of the MSC Cruises line.[3]