Aurora at anchor in the Santorini basin, showing post 2014 livery.
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History | |
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Bermuda | |
Name | Aurora |
Owner | Carnival plc |
Operator | P&O Cruises |
Port of registry |
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Builder | Meyer Werft, Papenburg, Germany |
Cost | $375 million |
Yard number | 640 |
Laid down | 15 December 1998 |
Launched | 18 January 2000 |
Christened | 27 April 2000 |
Maiden voyage | 1 May 2000 |
In service | 2000–present |
Identification |
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Status | In service |
General characteristics | |
Tonnage | |
Length | 270.0 m (885 ft 10 in) |
Beam | 32.2 m (105 ft 8 in) |
Draught | 7.9 m (26 ft) |
Decks | 10 |
Installed power | 4 MAN B&W 14V48/60 14-cyl diesels 19,710bhp each. Approximate fuel consumption 300 litres per nautical mile at 24 knots. |
Propulsion | Diesel-Electric |
Speed | 24 knots (44 km/h; 28 mph) |
Capacity |
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Crew | 850 |
MV Aurora is a cruise ship of the P&O Cruises fleet. The ship was built by Meyer Werft at their shipyard in Papenburg, Germany. At over 76,000 tonnes, Aurora is the smallest and oldest of seven ships currently in service with P&O Cruises. She officially entered service with the company in April 2000 and was named by Anne, Princess Royal in Southampton, United Kingdom. Aurora was refitted in 2014, during which the ship was the first of P&O's ships to receive an updated British Union flag design on her bow and her funnel repainted from yellow to blue.[1]