MS Costa Allegra

Costa Allegra at Split in 2011
History
Name
  • Annie Johnson (1969-1986)
  • Regent Moon (1986-1988)
  • Alexandra (1988-1992)
  • Costa Allegra (1992-2012)
  • Santa Cruise (2012)
Owner
Operator
Port of registry
Builder
Yard number1170
Launched29 April 1969
Completed1969
Acquired4 December 1969
Maiden voyage5 December 1969
In service1969
Out of service27 February 2012
Refit1986–1992
Identification
FateScrapped at Aliağa, Turkey in 2012
Notes[1][2]
General characteristics (as built)[1]
TypeContainer ship
Tonnage
Length174.20 m (571.5 ft)
Beam25.75 m (84.5 ft)
Draught10.39 m (34.1 ft)
Installed power
PropulsionTwo controllable pitch propellers
Speed23 knots (43 km/h; 26 mph)
Capacity
  • 744 TEU
  • 12 passengers
Crew30
General characteristics (1992)[1][2][3]
TypeCruise ship
Tonnage
Length187.69 m (615.8 ft)
Beam25.75 m (84.5 ft)
Draught8.20 m (26.9 ft)
Decks8 (passenger accessible)
Installed power
  • 4 × Wärtsilä 6R46
  • 19,123 kW (combined)
PropulsionTwo propellers
Speed19 knots (35 km/h; 22 mph)
Capacity
  • 820 passengers (lower berths)
  • 1,072 passengers (all berths)

Costa Allegra, formerly Annie Johnson, was a cruise ship owned by the Italy-based Costa Cruises, one of many subsidiaries owned by Costa's parent company Carnival Corporation. She was built in 1969 by the Wärtsilä Turku Shipyard in Turku, Finland, as a container ship for the Johnson Line services of Sweden-based Rederi AB Nordstjernan. In 1986 she was sold to Regency Cruises with the intention of being converted into a cruise ship as Regent Moon, but she was laid up instead. In 1988 she was sold to Compania Naviera Panalexandra and renamed Alexandra but continued laid up. In 1990, the ship was acquired by Costa Cruises and rebuilt into a cruise ship at the T. Mariotti shipyard in Genoa, Italy. She entered service as Costa Allegra in 1992.[1][4]

Costa Allegra suffered a generator fire while off the coast of Africa approximately 200 miles southwest of the Seychelles on 27 February 2012 and was taken into tow toward the island of Mahé in the Seychelles Islands the following day, a journey of several days. She was later renamed Santa Cruise and sold for breaking in Aliaga, Turkey.[5] Prior to beaching at the scrapyard, her yellow funnel, a trademark of Costa Crociere, was painted white.[6]

  1. ^ a b c d Asklander, Micke. "M/S Annie Johnson (1969)". Fakta om Fartyg (in Swedish). Retrieved 31 August 2011.
  2. ^ a b "Advanced Masterdata for the Vessel Costa Allegra". VesselTracker. 2011. Retrieved 31 August 2011.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference Ward was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ Miller, William H. Jr. (1995). The Pictorial Encycpedia of Ocean Liners, 1860-1994. Mineola: Dover Publications. p. 5. ISBN 0-486-28137-X.
  5. ^ Ex-Costa Allegra to be Scrapped in Turkey. Cruise Industry News, 26 October 2012. Retrieved 2012-10-27
  6. ^ SANTA CRUISE (ex-Costa Concordia). ShipSpotting.com. Retrieved 2012-10-27