Grand Princess
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Grand Princess in Split, Croatia showing refitted stern.
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| Name: | Grand Princess |
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| Operator: | Princess Cruises |
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| Ordered: | 8 February 1994 |
| Builder: | Fincantieri |
| Cost: | US$450 million |
| Yard number: | Monfalcone, 5956 |
| Launched: | 20 May 1998 |
| Christened: | 29 September 1998, by Olivia de Havilland |
| Maiden voyage: | 27 May 1998 |
| Refit: | May 2011 |
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| Status: | In service |
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| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Grand-class cruise ship |
| Tonnage: | 109,000 GT |
| Length: | 289.86 m (951 ft) |
| Beam: | 35.97 m (118 ft) |
| Height: | 61.26 m (201 ft) |
| Draught: | 7.92 m (26 ft) |
| Decks: | 17 |
| Propulsion: | Two shafts; fixed-pitch propellers |
| Speed: | 22.5 knots (41.7 km/h; 25.9 mph) (cruising) |
| Boats & landing craft carried: |
6 tenders |
| Capacity: |
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| Crew: | 1,100 |
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Grand Princess is a Grand-class cruise ship owned by Princess Cruises. Built in 1998 by Fincantieri Cantieri Navali Italiani in Monfalcone, Italy, with hull number 5956, at a cost of approximately US$450 million. She was the largest and most expensive passenger ship ever built at the time. Grand Princess was the flagship in the Princess Cruises fleet until the new Royal Princess took that title in June 2013.
Grand Princess was the first of the ''Grand''-class ships, and has a different decor scheme to her sister ships, using darker woods, and the interior decor is more similar to the smaller Sun-class ships. The cabin layout is also marginally different in the arrangement of the bathroom and the walk-in wardrobe. At a recent refit, the "Movies under the Stars" feature was added. When Grand Princess was launched, she featured in the Princess Cruises brochures as a "Sun" class ship; it was only with the subsequent launch of Golden Princess that the "Grand class" appeared in brochures.
She is the sister ship of Star Princess and Golden Princess. Grand Princess was the setting for a task in the second series of the UK version of the reality TV show The Apprentice.
Grand Princess has a large theatre, a large central performance lounge and an aft show lounge. The inaugural season featured performances by artists including Lorna Luft, Al Martino, Bob Anderson, Red Buttons, Rita Moreno and show-bands including Dominic Halpin with his swing band and Canadian band the Mud Sharks.
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